Agreed. Dutch Harbor, AK looks like San Diego by comparison.
Canucks are tough. I’m a bit more than 100 miles north of the border as the crow flies, and we have lakes, trees, and rocks all the time; snow and ice enough of the time; and not much else—Ottawa is about two and a half hours away, and the nearest stop light is a 45 minute trip. We like it that way.
We have an ice rink, a Tim Hortons (a 24-hour coffee shop that is Canada’s largest company by market capitalization and a cultural icon), a liquor store, The Beer Store (yes, that is what it is called), a Church (actually three of them—two Catholic in a town of 1200), moose, deer, and bear—when combined with the natural assets of the place, what else could a man want? Oh yes, Canadian Girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8udOf6wCvy8 I’ve got three of my own, not counting my wife, and three boys to match. A full hockey team.
My boss just came back from a two week trip to the south—Ï believe mostly in the DC region. School was being cancelled and delayed due to what the locals down there termed “cold.” We all had a good laugh. If we applied the same standards up here, there would be almost no school between December and mid-March. School up here is never cancelled for cold. Of course, we rarely hit worse than -40, not counting wind chill, so we probably aren’t as cold as the place being considered for the port, but I’m sure our local boys could handle it. It looks like a great place for hockey.