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

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

We care about missing indigenous women, it’s actually a huge industry here now. No mention of the men tho.

4 times more missing indigenous men than women but nobody cares or talks about it.

You are so confidently incorrect with everything you say that it’s pretty infuriating at this point.

I care. As do most Canadians. You really do live in fantasy land. Go back to reddit please

Yeah they do. Did you read my comment? I was simply accused of rape and every single person abandoned me

I was with a narcissistic woman for 10 years who tried to kill me multiple times, stole everything from me including all my friends, my computers, my guitars, kicked me out of my own apartment and I was homeless for a month (and then almkst lost my career for sleeping in my office), told everyone I know that I’m a violent rapist, bunch of other fun stuff that makes me permanently afraid of getting close to women

I’m a man though so you don’t give a shit lol. Literally nobody gave a shit except my parents and sister, to this day

OK so you do admit bears are scary. Why are you avoiding them? Lol

I’m actually on board with what you’re saying for once.

That said I’ve been abused by a woman before in arguably worse ways than what you describe and the cool part is that nobody cared or believed me

Maybe all humans are just terrible? That’s what I think.

You’re a hiking guide, and you think a random person in the woods is scarier than a bear? I am sorry but I just don’t believe you.

You don’t see any sexism and you think bears don’t kill people. Reddit isn’t sending their best here are they?

You must be trolling. Otherwise I’m kind of jealous how blissfully unaware you are of how the world works.