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
- 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
