Moving out

Well, I've lived in Burnaby for roughly 8.5 years, 4 of those years on Burnaby Mountain. Hard to believe, but true. The day has finally come to get out of this suburb and off of this mountain. As happy as I am to be moving, I think I will still miss a couple things about living up here.

• The snow. It snows on Burnaby mountain a lot. And I love it. Especially cause these new condo's make it seem like you live at a ski resort.
• The quiet. No traffic noise, often no people noise either.
• Isolated. In the event of a natural disaster, Burnaby mountain is a good place to be. [Relatively] Clean water supply always running over the mountain. Isolated to avoid all those crazies living in the city. Plus it's sometimes nice to not have the "big city" craziness all the time.
• The views. Burnaby mountain has a lot of good lookout points, with a 360 degree view of the lower mainland.
• The constant supply of second hand marijuana smoke coming from the people below us. Though I'm sure that's not limited to Burnaby mountain.
• Living in a forest is nice.
• Being 120 seconds from wicked mountain biking trails is nicer.

Some things I might not miss as much:

• Isolated. Honestly, a 1 hour round trip by bus to get groceries. Minimum.
• Nothing open on Sunday, and everywhere else in Burnaby everything is closed by 10.
• Did I mention it's pretty isolated up here?
• Really not too convenient if you don't have a car, unless where ever you're going is a) on the skytrain line or b) along Hastings.
• The 7 days a week partying in all of April, May, August, and September.
• The "Grey" that defines SFU, both in the color of the buildings, and the color of the sky.

Btw, in case you're trying to call me... Telus disconnected my phone 24h early. Big surprise. So call my cell instead.