>>2146238>Victoria is a constant battle between Oak Bay/Saanich NIMBYs, insufferable university/renter leftoids, and homeless people.>Cruise industry gone so it's just a straight government/uni town. Good luck finding a job that doesn't leech off the feds or province.>CRD watershed boxes the South Island out from a lot of backcountry and is policed like Area 51. This probably isn't even legal given waterways are crown property.>Gates fucking everywhere. 94% of BC is Crown Land, but south-east Van Isle is almost entirely private (making up a large portion of the total private rural land in BC). Almost the entire remainder of the island outside of actual parkland is earmarked for logging and is gated the fuck up.>Forest getting logged away everywhere. Only forests that don't get touched are those near Hwy 1 so that the retards stay asleep.I moved to S*rrey last November and it's honestly nice to live somewhere with regular working class people, and having a couple different options for going fishing/hiking/offroading within a 2 hour radius. Visiting Victoria back in March was kind of nuts. It's been hit way harder than the mainland. Downtown Vic is just a ghost town compared to 2-3 years ago.
I lived in Saanich for almost 10 years and the CRD could get hit by fucking nukes. The world would be better for it desu.
