After spending the morning out and about in Vancouver, I have come to several conclusions...

1) I am totally bummed I did not go out of my way to come here during the Olympics.  This place would have been amazing.  It has the perfect layout, amazing public transportation, unlimited hotel rooms, a great food scene, amazing scenery, a nice temperate climate, and so on.  What a missed opportunity.

2) Canadians are nice but I'm not sure many of Vancouver-ites are actually from Canada.  This is a really cosmopolitan city, like a micro version of New York or Chicago.  Then again, I haven't been walking around town pointing out that our women's soccer team just won Olympic gold at the expense of the worst screw-job ever on their team.

3) I'm not sure I could live here.  I'm not really into high-rise downtown style living.  There are some suburbs (West and North Vancouver) that are in the foothills and look nice, but it seems like it lacks a sense of, I dunno, community.  People just kind of do their own thing, they're not really proud of or satisfied with their lives.  It's like everybody is so busy trying to be a good host, they forget to be real.  Obviously, I don't suspect New Yorkers ever really have that problem.

4) Lastly, I wish I had time to visit UBC's Anthropology Museum.  The totems at Capilano were really cool, and I love all of the Inukshuks around town.  I was going to buy a small totem for my desk, but then I realized that those are not real totems.  If you're going to go all in, then go all in.  Not that I am going to spend 10 grand on a totem wood carving right now, but that would be some totally cool artwork for the office.  Then again, it would probably scare the urine out of half the dogs that came in the front door, too.  And the other half would just pee on it anyway.  Hmm, will have to think about a new plan.