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 BC gets a bad rap generally but we're the third sanest province in Confederation. 
 @669563d8 My kid thought it was beautiful there. Really liked it. 
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I spent 8 weeks on the prairies in the early 90s. When I took a bus back I couldn't believe how beautiful all the topography and green was. It was pretty profound. 
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The Prairies made me wasnt to shoot myself. The whole time. 
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We have a knack for voting provincially in that old socialist 'Kick it down the road' kinda way hippies do. 
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For decades the Social Credit Party ran this place. The knock on them was they were the party of retirees and pensioners.

Turns out pensioners had decent values and expectations. 
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But then the NDP got in. BC should've known better. By the time we were electing Mike Harcourt, the former Mayor of Vancouver, we all had enough data to work with to ignore the NDP. But no.... 
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Our last provincial govt was a coalition of NDP and Greenies. Fuck that. That's who administered COVID for us. 
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The whole Fraser Valley is brand new jeans blue. It's when you get to Vancouver Richmond, Surrey, North Van that things get stupid. Per usual. 
 Yeah not dating you’re saner than Ontario and Quebec isn’t exactly high praise :) 
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We do what we can, given the GVRD. 
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It's a bunch of hippy academics and racial plantations in Vancouver. 
 Oh yeah it’s always the cities that screw things up. NY, IL, CA, MA aren’t insane outside of the cities.