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Following on the earlier post.
Haven't done much that's too Exciting. Focused on job search and not getting covid. It's been a pretty nice neighborhood, though. No barriers to the south like further west, so I can go on long walks through nice neighborhoods. The niceness is enforced by a ton of traffic calming measures: diverters, neighborhood traffic circles (both of which tend to have nice plants maintained by someone), speed bumps. These exist north of Hastings as well. Many streets are lined with trees with deep pink flowers, which I'm guessing are plum trees -- too late, I think too pink, for cherry. Also a lot of people have planted tulips and they're ALL blooming right now.
Parks: nothing quite like Minoru Park. But Hastings Park has a pond, with ducks and herons and a cormorant, and has been nice to hang out at. There's another big pond to the south too.
I procrastinated on housing, and still didn't feel like flying somewhere else, so will be spending two weeks in Surrey for price reasons. Not cheap, but cheapest. Bit far from anything, like Richmond; the other Surrey places were even worse... I should look now for the next place, but I'm still dithering. Mexico would be a nice change but the air is bad, Montreal would be nice but I'm plane-averse with all the unmasking, though Canada's probably better than the US, anything in the US, well, thanks unqualified judge.
Hastings here isn't the Skid Row that it is 2 km west, and has a lot of shops and restaurants. It's also even more of a car sewer: multiple lanes, lots of traffic, no curbside parking, so I don't spent much time walking along it even with my anti-particulate mask, and have mostly lived on groceries rather than takeout.
Fujiya, the nice Japanese market I may have mentioned, is like 16 minutes away. It's at the intersection of two sewers, Venables and Clark, but I can get within a short block via calmed residential or bike boulevard streets. I discovered though that they make the prepared food in the morning and let it sell out, so you have to get there early. And at 12:30 on a Sunday it was packed, with like 50% mask-wearing, vs. the 100% a month before. Also there donburi rice doesn't stay fresh that long, so I stopped going much. The Italian market a couple minutes away also got annoyingly unmasked, though the poor employees still have to go through nigh-useless sterilization routines. So I've been going to the open-walled Chinese market.
Venables is a weird street. Due south of me it looks like any other residential street, hardly even wide enough for cars to pass each other given the parking. But west, it widens up a bit, and gets very busy.
Haven't done much that's too Exciting. Focused on job search and not getting covid. It's been a pretty nice neighborhood, though. No barriers to the south like further west, so I can go on long walks through nice neighborhoods. The niceness is enforced by a ton of traffic calming measures: diverters, neighborhood traffic circles (both of which tend to have nice plants maintained by someone), speed bumps. These exist north of Hastings as well. Many streets are lined with trees with deep pink flowers, which I'm guessing are plum trees -- too late, I think too pink, for cherry. Also a lot of people have planted tulips and they're ALL blooming right now.
Parks: nothing quite like Minoru Park. But Hastings Park has a pond, with ducks and herons and a cormorant, and has been nice to hang out at. There's another big pond to the south too.
I procrastinated on housing, and still didn't feel like flying somewhere else, so will be spending two weeks in Surrey for price reasons. Not cheap, but cheapest. Bit far from anything, like Richmond; the other Surrey places were even worse... I should look now for the next place, but I'm still dithering. Mexico would be a nice change but the air is bad, Montreal would be nice but I'm plane-averse with all the unmasking, though Canada's probably better than the US, anything in the US, well, thanks unqualified judge.
Hastings here isn't the Skid Row that it is 2 km west, and has a lot of shops and restaurants. It's also even more of a car sewer: multiple lanes, lots of traffic, no curbside parking, so I don't spent much time walking along it even with my anti-particulate mask, and have mostly lived on groceries rather than takeout.
Fujiya, the nice Japanese market I may have mentioned, is like 16 minutes away. It's at the intersection of two sewers, Venables and Clark, but I can get within a short block via calmed residential or bike boulevard streets. I discovered though that they make the prepared food in the morning and let it sell out, so you have to get there early. And at 12:30 on a Sunday it was packed, with like 50% mask-wearing, vs. the 100% a month before. Also there donburi rice doesn't stay fresh that long, so I stopped going much. The Italian market a couple minutes away also got annoyingly unmasked, though the poor employees still have to go through nigh-useless sterilization routines. So I've been going to the open-walled Chinese market.
Venables is a weird street. Due south of me it looks like any other residential street, hardly even wide enough for cars to pass each other given the parking. But west, it widens up a bit, and gets very busy.
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