Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Take Off, Hosehead


The universe is a strange, tricky lady. In the span of one week's time we went from David returning from 4 months overseas to him being laid off and now we're contemplating a move to Vancouver. Right now I'm just happy I can find my pants and put them on.

We're excited about the idea of relocating to the Great White North. Vancouver is a beautiful city - the clean, polite version of San Francisco with slightly better retail prices. Used to be a much bigger "discount," but that' OK - they make up for it with better manners.

We're not Bay Area haters by any means, but here's a list of things I wouldn't miss:
  • The Eastbay Freeway
  • Waiting in line for everything
  • Gang-infested areas of Oakland
  • Frank Sommerville
  • The Nasty Nimitz
  • Crapplebees et al
  • Our shitty bitch neighbor
  • Sourdough bread
  • Hartzheim Dodge
  • The South Bay
  • Sacramento/the Central Valley
  • Penngrove
  • 580/101 construction nightmare
  • Toyota Zone commercials
  • The Raiders
  • Crazy Neighbor Bob (who still hasn't left, even though the house has sold - INsane)
  • Melpenis
  • Bart
  • Sirens
  • Road rage
  • Cherry bombs on 7/4
And here's what I would absolutely miss:
  • My wonderful, terrific friends
  • This incredible house
  • Peet's Coffee
  • New theaters right down the street
  • Trader Joe's
  • Encinal Market
  • The SF skyline
  • Louis' @ Ocean Beach
  • North Beach Pizza
  • Day trips to Sonoma
  • Mill Valley's town square
  • Highway 1
  • Capitola
  • Dave Morey & 10@10
  • Dottie's True Blue Cafe
I'm sure there's more I would miss, but it seems manageable. It's a quick flight up & back.

4 comments:

ms. crafty said...

It is supposed to be simply lovely there, with decent weather and NICE people. We'd certainly volunteer to visit (and have considered it as a place to move as well).

Side note: A quick check of the Crapplebees site revealed that there are two locations in the Vancouver metro area (read suburbs). It's pretty much impossible to get away from them unless you move to the middle of the wilderness somewhere...of course, that doesn't mean you have to EVER go there. I know I won't. *shudder*

Hazel Nootsmaak said...

It really is lovely there. So beautiful, and just a few minutes from downtown is wide open wilderness - you could hike yourselves silly up there and finish every day at a nice restaurant or bar with a gorgeous view of the water.

Should we end up there, we'd love to have you!

We went to Crapplebees once after we first moved here - house full of boxes & shit everywhere - we just needed some food. What a pit.

Mir said...

I haven't been to Vancouver, so I can't go on and on about how lovely it is. But, I could go on and on about how much I'd miss having you around here. *sniff* (that's a sobbing sniff - not a coke induced)

Anonymous said...

She Who Must Be Obeyed calls them "Applecracks," in some sort of bizarro reference to being the ass-crack of the universe. I do love that girl.