• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    I’m Canadian and we’re very America lite.

    I grew up in a small town and I miss being young and spending so much time getting to know my neighbours or random people at the diner.

    People feel less friendly the last few years, but when you get to know people they are nice. But that consideration for our fellow man is weak lately.

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      This is why I moved out of a metropolis to a small mountain town. We have our share of assholes and dipshit tourists, but a lot of people genuinely care up here and it’s much easier to be of that mindset when you’re around people of a similar ilk.

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        3 days ago

        Honestly trumpism killed a lot of that spirit in the small town (and its surrounding towns) that I moved to. Now I’m working on moving back to the large city because then I can join some clubs and maybe find some sense of community that was lost thanks to the “fuck your feelings” crowd.

        I’ve also now had 2 job changes due to layoffs in a row, so I want to move to where there’s more job opportunities for the next time a workplace decides to do without me, and not find myself up the proverbial creek and forced to accept another job with an hour+ of commuting each direction

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        5 days ago

        Nelson? Revelstoke? Golden? Or proper little like New Denver or Kaslo or something? Considering that change for myself after having already gone from Toronto to Okanagan. Keep finding myself drawn to those kinds of places.

        Edit: Previous comment said Canadian, just assumed you were Canadian! Sorry.