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Originally Posted by chedder
Yeah, Fernie has been advertising on Global Calgary for a month for people to come out and visit. The thing about this is that BC has a very small segment of their population that are absolutely 'Deliverance' type bushed, backwoods people. This pandemic is just the impetus for their xenophobic, racist, get off my lawn flag to fly.
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I think you're seriously underestimating the size of that group.
One of the things I find funny about BC and Vancouver in particular is that if citizens of Vancouver and even the Island travelled through their province farther than their bicycles could take them from home they'd be shocked that the stereotype they've built of Alberta applies even moreso to them.
Head to the Interior, go North. People there drive giant, noisy trucks and make their livings raping the land.
Its actually really funny. The stereotype is to look at Alberta and think that we're a bunch of backwards rednecks pillaging our land for natural resources and BC is some advanced enclave of intellectuals.
While they raze forests to the ground and pollute water with pulp mills and human waste and where a large chunk of their revenue comes from people from elsewhere visiting....regardless of their protests about those visitors being unwanted.
Its like an odd isolationist compound.