The reason I haven’t posted much in the past few weeks is that I’ve been busy hunting, buying and moving in to my new condo in downtown Vancouver. I’ve been saying for years — the four years I’ve lived in suburban Surrey — that I’d move to Vancouver, and now I have.<\/p>\n
The move was triggered by the apparently imminent move of my office from Burnaby to the downtown. This has been delayed, so my hopes for a five-minute stroll to work haven’t quite yet happened. But I think it’s going to be interesting living in the city nonetheless.<\/p>\n
It’s still all a little surreal, and I’m not really used to the constand motion and people in the downtown. I find myself absurdly nostalgic at fast-food franchise signs. But going to sleep with the city-glow in the window is also kinda cool.<\/p>\n
Everyone in Yaletown is skinny and fashionable, though. I’ll have to lose some weight and get some new clothes, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The reason I haven’t posted much in the past few weeks is that I’ve been busy hunting, buying and moving in to my new condo in downtown Vancouver. I’ve been saying for years — the four years I’ve lived in suburban Surrey — that I’d move to Vancouver, and now I have. The move was … Continue reading “City Life”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}