Halifax and Nova Scotia ARE Shang-ri la!

I've decided that Nova Scotia and Halifax in particular are the fabled Shang-ri la.

I have only had to shovel once so far this winter. The weather here is improving every year. Except for Hurricane Juan in 2003 - which was a once in a century storm - and it wasn't really all that bad in hindsight and it taught us a lot of lessons - we here in Nova Scotia have got just about the best life any where in the world. Literally. So by that what I mean to say is that all over the world all kinds of freaky weather is happening that is killing thousands and thousands of people and here in Nova Scotia the weather is getting more and more beautiful as time goes on - the winters are becoming mild and the summers are becoming warmer. I've only had to shovel once this winter and usually we'd be up to our eye balls in snow and ice and slush and grossness. Yuck. But I tell you, it's been lovely.

We don't have any killer bugs - we don't even have rabies in our dogs, or heartworm. We don't have tornadoes, landslides, floods, and we've only had a couple hurricanes in the last century that's made any impact on the landscape.

We get lots of rain and lots of sun - we have never had any drought long enough that has made us have to ration out our water or made the grass turn brown or lose our crops. We've also never had so much rain that our crops have been ruined.

Right now today, there's landslides happening, floods killing people, wildfires in California, tsunamis, drought, civil wars, religious wars making people kill each other, earthquakes and their aftermath like in Pakistan, overpopulation causing starvation, Japan this year has had more snow than any year in their history - freaky weather is happening all over the world. But here in Nova Scotia the kind of freaky weather that we're having is that the weather is becoming BEAUTIFUL.

That's why I think that Halifax, Nova Scotia is Shangri-la. I think that perhaps Halifax is the new Noah's Ark - and maybe some people might want to think about hitching a ride. Because it's pretty nice here.

There's also no breed specific legislation here. And I'm working on making it a bit more dog friendly. If there were some more compatriots it might be easier though.

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