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.

You may also enjoy reading about Ocean Shores WA. It’s like this but it’s sinking and then sun doesn’t really shine lol

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

Most of the shots I take with the GR look great right out of camera, no editing required, so I wouldn’t let that deter you

Bought my Ricoh GR 1 years ago used for $300. This camera is perfect. Their hype is warranted imo. Especially on this version, something about the older less perfect look really works with its insanely sharp lens shot wide open. The newer models to me don’t even look as good as this 13 year old GR.

Another reason I love the GR series is it doesn’t look like a serious camera. So when you point it at people, they smile instead of being shy in front of a full frame pro looking camera, if that makes sense.

But man. I could easily sell it in its relic’d state with high shutter count today for $1000.

Like most hobbies, covid made photography too expensive.

Yesterday I sold my XE3, broken (doesn’t interface with autofocus lenses anymore). Buyer wanted to buy it to use it for use with vintage manual lenses. An excellent choice of camera body for this. But I sold it for the same price I bought it 6 years ago. Insanity.

I don’t live in afghanistan and I have never contributed to the country whatsoever. It’s different.

I have literally been stopped by FN due to my skin colour

Example. Capilano Indian Reserve No. 5 in north vancouver. I like to tent camp there when I visit vancouver for concerts at the RV park. Years ago, when I asked about where the trail is to the river, they literally told me it’s for FN only with a straight face lol

I know what white privilege is btw and I guess it’s a taste of my own medicine.

Which you need to be of a certain ethnicity to obtain.

My family has been living in canada since like 1890 so I guess I am a homeless invader at this rate. My family has been here so long that we no longer have any ties to germany and me “moving home” is impossible.

I care about those woods as much as any FN my age. My great grandfather helped construct many of the bridges on that road. My great uncle was a trapper in the vicinity. His cabin is still standing. Maybe they should implement facial ID? If you are from the city or you are new to canada, fuck off, lol.

That’s what I would vouch for at this point. Closing it to certain skin colours is just going to piss people off and divide further. People don’t respect nature so just close it.

you should feel privileged that you can visit this one

But the infrastructure is paid for by taxpayers. That park requires an incredible amount of maintenance. They should just gate it and cut funding.

Or, the government could make more desperately needed parks near vancouver and this whole problem would just go away. Everyone’s mad about the state of joffre lakes, not just the FN.

It’s not a public park then.

How come I don’t get a special time allotment to “reconnect” with joffre lakes? Born here, hiked that well before instagram ruined it, and I have a connection to that place too. With the crowds though, I’ll probably never go there again.

They should just completely shut it down tbh.

I can imagine that living of life of telling lies and trying to remember all the lies and stressing about it would cause something like this. What a horrible person

I wish he crossed to the greens instead. Him saying that Carney’s environmental cuts make him worse on the environment than Harper should’ve been front page news

I mean he made a fuck ton of money and so did his family which is all that matters to him