Ha Stephen, yes.
This is the capital city of our province, & yet. The older parts are
the neatest, & there are the new buildings downtown for music & art,
yet for money too. And worst of all is where someone buys a nice lot &
small house on one of the beautiful crescents above the river, tears
down the house & constructs a monster in its place. Ugly as huge as
sign of wealth.
Did you know that although they have taken over the surrounding
suburbs, WalMart has (again) been kept out of Vancouver proper? Now
that's a city council.
Doug
On 29-Jun-05, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Thank you, Doug, not "sort of"!
> Sounds/looks like many parts of California, Nevada -
> What folks manage to throw down on a flat plain (as if
> one imagines that 'normally' their would be some sophisticated (i.e.
> Higher
> Power) City/County Planning Commission insuring/enforcing some higher
> aesthetic - In which new developments are organic and beautiful,
> caring and
> responsive to human need. Rarely even the quaint self-made wonder of
> vernacular housing - great gardens in front of house trailers. It's
> Walmart
> & down. A communal and personal psychic death. Said by I who live in a
> neighborhood where the Victorians - once Irish working class family
> homes -
> now going for a million dollars plus each. The new owners -
> professionals -
> complain of small closets (workers did not have to hang 10 suits). Bad
> schools, expensive private ones, the City looses its children out to
> the
> burbs. Fewer artists and poets. Childless, a strange quiet pervades.
> Beautiful empty houses! Thank god for rent control here (for me), what
> remains of it. Growing populations. Needs. Capitalism. Free market.
> Occasionally an aesthetic blip. The City's outrageously beautiful
> concert
> hall or museum, celebrates the rich, accounts for tourism. Ah, I get
> too
> cynical. I live under Bush et al.
>
> Stephen V
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