>>Hi Tony, I saw your E.B. White quote tonight saying that "everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car."   That was not true when I lived in Vancouver BC.  I was right downtown--4 blocks from the ocean, 3 blocks from Stanley Park, with a grocery store and cinema right across the street, two more grocery stores within four blocks, a library nearby, pharmacies and hardware stores, and 49 restaurants along Denman Street, which was three doors down from me.  It also had a stellar public transit system that would take me to all kinds of amazing places, like up into the mountains to hike, or to ferries which would take me to beautiful islands.  Sometimes I wonder why I left.  I definitely need a car in Kingston, if I want to get out to the countryside, but I do love hopping in my little car and puttering around, and it's easier now that I don't walk so well.  And it's not as busy and noisy as where I used to live.  We have more history here as well.  In Vancouver, anything that is 30 years old has to be torn down and something bigger and grander put in its place.
There you have the difference between big city and small city life.  You don't need to publish this.  I just thought I would tell you about my two hometowns.  

Karen