Snow and buses

K-W is still way greener than Edmonton was over a month ago. I love that! Did you read that in the Rockies the first ski resorts have opened? I don't want to be there, not yet. I can't wait to see though if snow removal here is really so much better than in Edmonton. After last year's disaster of cars stuck everywhere city council aims to keep the pack at 5 cm this year. Sorry, pack is pack, 5 or 10 cm in the end does not matter. Drivers still have to navigate for days through all kinds of snow conditions until the pack forms and then, voila, gets icy. Good luck with that!

From where we live on Westmount Road in Kitchener there are several buses running in all kinds of directions. To catch some of them we have to walk to the next intersection but generally it's no big deal. It's been an illusion though to think that public transit is better here. Most buses run every half an hour which is nice and good if I only need one bus but not so fun once my journey requires a connection. When this connection is between a Kitchener city bus, the express bus to Guelph or Cambridge and a local bus there it's not tempting at all. We have therefore resigned to applying for jobs in K-W. My husband could have had a job in Guelph but the commute would probably have worn him out after a week, and me too since I have to look after the child for that time. Never mind, we are still resisting the pressure to buy a car before we have an income. After all, this move to a smaller city was also meant to help up live AND work locally. Commuting to the neighbouring cities was not on the list. Call it stubborn or inflexible we insist that long commutes are disastrous to one's life. We are still optimistic we can find work though, soon and near to home, and am sure we will have plenty of opportunity over the winter the still test the bus system.