Aegis wrote:Well, okay that works for Northern ontario. But, the Maritimes? That would only encourage certain behaviour
I read this and thought cod. Darn it, your bringing out the less desirable me!
Anyways, I met my SO in the maritimes and I like the rugged beauty of the north. Europe sounds good, if they had a little more room to spare... or Australia. I want to live down under.
In any case, I live in suburbia, the closest bakery is two blocks down, along with the closest convenience store, grocery store, video store, daycare, eye care professionals, and pretty much whatever else you need.
Driving five minutes can drop me in a huge range. I can be at three malls by that time, and a giant complex of stores. Heck, I can drive along the Bow River for a couple more minutes and hit the zoo!
Calgary was a well designed, except for a few choice roads that we would like elsewhere, and a somewhat useless ring road. I also live more than an hour closer to the mountains that the nearest apartment building, which is in the south. It does not really matter, anyways. The lifestyle of many Canadians these days that go through Calgary are from the East, here to make money and then it's off for the East, to join DW and her bingo club.
The lack of water sometimes peeves me, but I gain nothing from living elsewhere in Alberta. We had our snow late this year... the kids were not walking around in snow for Halloween, or in below ten weather. We got our first actual snow last night.
Anyways, traveling in the city, with its transportation system and the C-Train, is fairly easy. Hospitals are large and well placed, roads are unique and twisting, and always face a different direction, in most cases. There are no actual straight roads. No trees, and a low sun, but its bearable. I have a backyard, a patio, the ravine... we even have a fairly large garden that goes to looking like a sea of crystals in the winter, thanks to some really cool water systems set into the rocks by my Significant Other... life is good. Access to anything is at my fingertips. nothing could improve if I lived in the center of things, or in the middle of nowhere, although I do enjoy living on the edges of rather older cities...
The Maritimes or Northern Ontario? Now that's just crazy talk! I mean, the Maritimes are just nutty as all sin, and Northern Ontario is, well, so far from anything!
Bah, within visiting distance then! Besides, sinning is fun.
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Charlottetown has some really nice neighborhoods by the water. Actually, this question has never been jumped on me before... I have not made a choice to where I really want to live in the future. It is so far away...