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Nice pics.
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Thanks.
It looks better than the cameras show
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Yes, cameras leave a lot to be desired at times.
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or the camera man đ
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Nope….always blame the camera….hahahahaha……
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Hahaha. You are just too polite.
How are you keeping on my friend? Have yourself a great week
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Not too bad….staying home of course, with the odd trip out for fresh groceries.
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Here, apart from masks and restrictions on night movements, life is almost as it used to be before.
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Yes, masks everywhere, & many of us wear the disposable gloves too. Nightlife here doesn’t really exist even in non pandemic times. There is just nothing to do in the evenings here…..we’re too small.
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Not to pry, but whereabouts is your home region, Atheistmeow?
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Williams Lake, British Columbia. Small city in mid province, where it’s pretty quiet most of the time, & night time is almost dead here…..other than the young criminal element, that is. Our rush hour is a few hundred vehicles & lasts about 20 minutes, if that.
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My friend that is the place I would want to live. The traffic on some of our roads within the city can leave you depressed
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It’s beautiful here, & we are quite happy with the size, & quietness of daily life. When I get groceries, I seldom have to wait in any queue for cash out. We can reach everywhere we need on our scooters.
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Thats a good place to live
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It’s great to live here. The only thing against it, is when needing anything other than simple medical care, we have to go out of town.
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Which i guess happens rarely
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Between my husband’s bad heart, with 3 different implant defib/pacemaker surgeries, my lumbar laminectomy, 2 hip replacements, breast cancer, plus all the consults beforehand, it’s a nuisance.
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Thats a nuisance my dear friend. You almost need a hand to be sending for those errands
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At least we have a medical bus that runs between many of our cities, & it’s also cheap. We just need to book our dates for it.
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Awesome. Totally awesome
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Very helpful for those of us who don’t drive.
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that’s a place where one feels there is some justice in tax deductions
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At least we don’t have vehicle upkeep, with fuel & that tax, insurance, licenses, etc. Scooters are considered pedestrian so we don’t need a license, or insurance for them.
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There was a supermarket that would issue disposable gloves but they stopped. Nowadays I see very few people with gloves. Masks are required in many places so one got to wear one.
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And night life exists here even though bars close at 9
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We have a bar or two, & some restaurants are open in the evening for take out right now, but if we went our for dinner pre-virus, we were almost the only patrons.
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That’s so unlike Nairobi where people would rather lock themselves in the bar and go home in the morning
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We’re definitely not big city.
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Yes, masks are mandatory now. Gloves are not provided, but I see many are wearing them now anyway.
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Great views. Not quite as I remember it! Hope all is well with you.
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Tish, Nairobi would confuse you now. It has quite changed in the recent past.
I am well, really. All is well.
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I dare say Nairobi would confuse me, Mak, though not as much as my own country which I do not recognise at all!
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I can only imagine. I see Nairobi change a lot. With lots of ill suited glass ovens (towers) and other developments
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High-rise ovens on the equator do seem bonkers. I seem to remember there was Zimbabwe experiment some years ago – a high rise in Harare (?) that was based on the notion of how termite mounds are cooled and ventilated. It was an amazing looking structure. And then of course traditional Islamic architects had cunning notions on ventilation. It would be interesting to know how far those could be scaled up in a vertical direction.
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Knowledge that we will probably need to relearn (or at least the minimal surviving population) once the crack cocaine of carbon fuels is over. đĻ
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Unfortunately
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That’s quite a tough one though, isn’t it – withdrawal from carbon fuels for manufacturing. Am thinking super glass panels are very useful in northern hemisphere if you want to make a low energy buildings. And then there’s the steel and cement we’re wedded to. This a problem for renewables too – the wind turbines themselves don’t seem to last very long and need carbon fuelled parts. Hm. Hard to know what the answer is.
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there is a big problem of environmental degradation following sand harvesting and marine ecosystem destruction from marine dredging. there is no easy solution
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Yes those are very important considerations – those cement works right on the coast. Canadian if my memory serves me. They usurped people’s ancestral lands too (?)
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Most likely it is their government that cheated them out of their land rights.
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It is bonkers but clients want glass on their buildings. The more glass there is the better. Tropical architecture be damned
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Glass is so expensive too.
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Quite expensive actually
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View from your window?
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Nope.
From a rooftop bar
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Delicious
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