When you move from your childhood home (Surrey) to a new place (Calgary), one cannot help but make many comparisons. Today's comparison will be "driving" ...
Now I'm not saying that one place is better than another, BUT there are some differences ...
Let's start off with roads ... Holy Crap! The roads here are HUGE!!!! Compare Calgarian roads to our roads in Surrey - dang! There's so much space here!
Next off, speed & road rage ... okay, so my first time driving here I got honked at ... maybe b/c I'm not that much of a fast driver (okay honestly, I'm an old lady when i drive)... but I've slowly learned that people here not only drive a lot faster but they get angry a lot more than back home ... at least back home, people just honk at you, but here - they honk, stare, yell, finger ... yikes!!!
Traffic ... now this is my favourite!!! I find it funny how some people complain at how their traffic is about 45 minutes from home to work (but JC always reminds me though that people are just not use to traffic like we are) ... I must always remind myself not to complain about traffic here b/c this is nothing compared to BC - I remember one day it took me 2 hours to get from Surrey to Richmond ... 2 hours!!!
HOV Lanes ... I don't think there's any here ... if there are, I haven't seen any ... imagine living in a city where at this point, there's not a high need for HOV lanes? Wow ...
Well, one of the things that I've learned about driving here is not only drive faster, but if you can drive in Richmond or downtown Vancouver - I think you can drive just about anywhere ;)
posted by JCandKim @10:39 PM
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