Visiting birdie for Vancoufur

[Kithrak]

Hello!

I am an unusual birdie flying north in the winter to visit from Los Angeles for Vancoufur. It's my first time in Canada and wanted to give a /wingwave to all the furries in the area. Anyone at the hotel early?

[Tef]

*paw-waves back*
Hey there, fellow feathery! Hope to see you around at VF!!

[Whitefoot]

Hey there! Welcome to Canada! :3

[Kithrak]

Thanks for the welcomes. The area's contrast is interesting. Some parts feel even more urban while at the same time some areas feel more rural than Los Angeles.

[Univaded_Fox]

Thanks for the welcomes. The area's contrast is interesting. Some parts feel even more urban while at the same time some areas feel more rural than Los Angeles.

That more urban feeling probably comes from the fact that we have so many skyscrapers, not just in downtown, but in clusters which have grown up along Skytrain routes (including the cluster just east of your room).  I have been to LA, and your downtown only has a few towers, but one of them would easily dwarft most of ours.  You also have Earthquakes they must contend with, but we...also have earthquakes to contend with, just not as often.  You may even recognize some of our buildings since, ironically enough, half of the movies released by Hollywood are shot here (there are two studios just southwest of you, one of which is where Man of Steel was just filmed).

The rural aspect is also understandable.  Here everything is arrayed along a narrow undulating east-west corridor. You cannot go south because we're on the border; northward you will run into the mountains; east you will eventually hit more mountains, and west goes into the sea.  LA sprawls in every direction throughout that huge basin along those gargantuan freeways, which I am amazed you manage to contend with.  Wanna know why here there aren't any highways into downtown here?  Because 40 years ago the citizens of Vancouver stood against the government's wishes and said they didn't want the historic sections of the city razed to allow rivers of concrete to start ringing the city center.  Instead, we got Skytrain, and the nearest freeway to the city is the Trans Canada just west of you.

Plus, this being a temperate zone, the undeveloped parts are full of trees (as opposed to scrub that catches on fire every few years.  Seriously, how do you contend with that?).  But we do have Palm Trees in the west end.  Seriously.  Look.

[professor whovianart]

hello hello hello.

[Maoi Neko]

Hihi *wavies*

[Whitzy]

*is still nomming birdy* hai :3

[skeledog]

You'll love it here! Too bad it's raining for the con... D|

[professor whovianart]

but the rain makes it so extra vancoufurry  :-3

it may clear up in the next day or so, or maybe snow.

[Tef]

It's just a little rain. However, "little" is open to interpretation.

[Kithrak]

*is still nomming birdy* hai :3

Gaaah, no nom bird. Birds are friends, not food.

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. ^.^