My gf moved here less than a year ago from mainland and she can’t believe how strange and different people are on the island compared. There’s also that weird group of people who never seem to leave victoria and they have such an incredibly narrow minded view of everything. My manager at work was born in victoria and the furthest place he’s been on the island is point no point. Wtf.

It’s just NYC without any sort of character. Concrete buildings and dystopian. I just don’t like being there.

I’m in Victoria, too. 8 years here and not much of a friend group even with such like minded people at work.

I feel like Victoria is maybe the best city in all of NA but man the vibes here are strange. Go out west into the woods and it just gets weirder. I have stories and those woods breathe evil I swear.

I lived in Calgary while I went to college and I made so many friends with zero effort. I thought that the huge transient population was kind of cool. I live on vancouver island now and connecting with people here is almost impossible by comparison

Do you have any recommended reading?

Relevant but I’m currently going down this Bricks & Minifigs vs Ben rabbit hole and wow these mormons are creepy as fuck.

Why Calgary? One of the nicest large cities I’ve spent time in.

Stampede is bad energy though.

What about Deadmonton, especially the last 10 years? It’s like a giant liminal space

I love Belgium but Brussels is alarmingly lame

My feelings are hurt? Lol my job is recession proof

Datacenters are just the popular thing to be offended by right now

If you hate this guy as much as me, look up his guitar videos. He’s garbage and thinks he’s so good. Pathetic

What would you use the old phones for out of curiosity?

You’re old now and you can’t say mississippi quite as effectively anymore

Gas always costs the same if you just put in 20 bucks

I got my firearms license soon after trump started saying 51st state. I’m not really interested in guns but with each passing day it feels more and more necessary

They should push refineries like the green party is

Like who though? I haven’t heard of any examples

I read it will be 80 USD