I've been feeling the desire to write lately.
But if you ask me now, I'm not sure what it was I wanted to say.
Probably something along the lines of how weird it is to be back in Canada.

I'm seeing things now that I never saw before...
things like, why this place has such a car culture...it's all in the design. We have the space, but I look at that as poorly planned space. It's all sprawl.

My question of the day has been, what the hell are we gonna do if we really do run out of oil? There's gonna need to be some big changes with the way we plan our towns, cities and residential areas.

I've begun to take notice of the media campaign that encourages citizens to reduce their waste by recycling...and hear (unconfirmed) that Nova Scotia doesn't actually have adequate facilities to deal with the separated waste...regardless, it seems like a band-aid solution to bad planning.


What is this obsession with space? The cars are big, the roads are big, the shops are big and the houses are big...how big does a shop really need to be? What would this place look like if instead of "communities" of houses built along a string, where the nearest shop is a 15 minute drive away, we adopted a European approach of hub-villages?

Is it really more cost effective to have one super-sized store?

How are old people supposed to access basic services- the post office, the chemist, the doctor, if everything is built along a string?

Safe to say that yes, I'm experiencing culture shock, for my own culture...or at least what used to be my own culture...