Beautiful British Columbia
Greetings from bc. Yes lj I live here now. I must say it is breathtaking here. But. It certainly is not home. I miss the east coast. I miss my friends. I miss the music. I miss the harbor. I especially miss the quant architecture and tight knit tree lined streets that make your soul at ease. The large expansion of streets, meridians, concrete, gas stations, pulp mills, make this small town feel worse than Toronto. No joke. How can a town of 70,000 suffocate you more than a metropolis of millions? City planning in the west has got it all wrong.
However, unbc has got it all right. What a fantastic place. Set on a mountain looking above the city really is beautiful. Teachers are outstanding in their research and take the effort to know you. I've already met everyone on the planning faculty and half on the geography faculty and have mentors. Unbc is the only thing keeping me here. And I hope I get a job so badly outside of northern bc. I do not want to get stuck here. Northern bc is increasingly becoming an economic centre for the province in creating jobs, in natural resources. As well a pawn in supplying china with risk free oil sands. Risk free for them, money for us. But at what cost. Oh just destroying the ecological diverse area in Canada (sacred headwater). It is really hard living in a hardcore conservative elected place, where economics rule, and that is the bottom line.
I've never been to a place that feels as wild as this place. It only makes me realize that the Canadian frontier has so much more to go. I actually feel like an explorer here. It's weird but we are going to be mapping glaciers that have never been precisely mapped with lidar, remote sensing.. Only have they been mapped by arial photographs. I am lucky to be here. But sad to know this place will be changed in the near future by corporate Canada.
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