I just read your contrarian view. Informative and interesting. You argue vigorously. I would like to leave a comment but there are too many hoops to jump through.

You are welcome to leave your long-winded rants here any time.

Thanks.

Give it another twenty years and Vancouver will have the same climate San Francisco has today. Another twenty and it will be more like San Diego.

I’m exaggerating. At least I hope I am.

Health care. Mmmm. Let me think about that one. The majority of HMO’s in the US have similar problems to what Chimera mentioned – a lot of treatments are not covered, the wait for treatment can be long, and their bureaucracy can be extremely impersonal.

But, that seems like a small complaint when you have no coverage at all, like many Americans. And even if you have an HMO, PPO, or PFFS, there are many physicians that don’t accept the plan you happen to be on.

When you add up all the ways people die because they don’t have even the most basic health plan, it becomes apparent that the leading cause of death in the US is poverty.

My retirement plan: Move to Canada.

Paul, “Canada” is a non-sentient, physically dominant area of geography situated on the northern portion of a land mass known as a continent. It is “separated” from another non-sentient, physically dominant area of geography on that same land mass by an artificial line of demarcation known as a “border.” Purportedly sentient beings have colonized either side of that line of demarcation, both groups claiming to “love” their particular area of geography.

Geography has no emotional content. It cannot “love” you back.

Is that clearer?

I am with you on warmer weather. If only our winter were three months as it should be. Thanks for your comment.

I love your line “I don’t understand the need to be ‘loyal’ to something that doesn’t even know you exist.”

Is that your own?