digi said…
Vancouver seems pretty impressed with itself for a city made out of paper mache’.

digi - I had to clean my explosive laugh off of the screen when I read that.

wg2c - It makes me rage too.

Even worse than the greed, if that’s possible, is the sheer foolishness (dare I say stupidity?) of sheeple. Bah! (you can read that two ways.)

I arrived here for a two week vacation 20 years ago next month, and never left. I came from Ontario, and there were still two or three months of winter to face there. I got here, and it was sunny, flowers were blooming, everything was green (as opposed to grey and brown), and it was about 12 deg. - as opposed to freezing temps. I hate the cold, so that tore it for me. I worked in the bush for the next ten springs and summers, and just had Van. as a blow-through base. Things changed, but I couldn’t go back to winter.

But everything does rot here, and there is mould everywhere. The rain cleans the air though, so it is more breathable. Trouble is, the rain/snow deposits all that particulate into the resevoirs, and we drink it and bathe in it. Mmmn, MTBE.

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Well said.

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It is sad, and it also makes me angry. This kind of thing wouldn’t happen if the world wasn’t driven so much by greed.

For me, the leaking condo issue is also a comment on Vancouver. I expect a lot of people come here hoping it really is a wonderful place to live, only to discover that it’s wet, wet, wet, wet, wet!

I was born here, but didn’t grow up here. I grew up in a dry, almost arid climate in the summer with much snow in the winter. But force of circumstance has kept me here for most of the past 30+ years, since my late twenties. I’ve never got used to the wet, damp, life here … never come to accept it. Give me hot and dry + cold and dry over wet. I’ve always associated the weather here with “decay” and “rot”.

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This kind of reminded me of a story I heard about a Richmond resident who lives directly under the flight path of YVR.

One summer day when he had his dad over to check out his surround sound setup his just happen to play a DVD w/ a scene of a plane fly by. And his dad commented on how realistic the surround similation was. It turned out that at exactly the same time a YVR flight was going directly overhead. I was rolling on the floor laughing when I first heard this story.

I guess for that kind of immersive reality, be it the West Coast rain or plane takeoffs and landings, you really should pay a premium for it. What would be next? Immersive experience when watching the Twin Tower collapse? Let’s hope thing won’t get that bad.

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Sadly I think not, because if there were it would be a perfect Bread ‘n’ Breakfast for European tree-huggers stopping over in Vancouver before heading for the West Coast Trail:

“Exclusive BC Eco-Hostel — Perfect for transitioning to B.C.’s beautiful West Coast Rain Forest before you encounter the harsh charm of the real thing. $185 standard experience / $285 deluxe moss-and-slug / $85 up-charge for skunk cabbage. Reservations are a must during the rainy season (September through June).”

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