So what's great about Canada?

[Mark TKO]

I assume you wandered to part of the Downtown East Side. It's not really dangerous at all though, it's just really sad.

As for Vancouver Island, that's where I live and I've never found it to be overly remote. Victoria, the city I live in, has over 300,000 people and Vancouver is about 1.5 - 2 hours away. Some parts of the Island are definitely remote though.

maybe it wasn't dangerous but I panicked. I can handle 10-15 blokes attacking me no problem but now I'm late 30s I reckon I would have struggled with more than twenty thirty.

Stayed in a place called Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island. Very remote and stank of fish ! Was good for the grizzly tour though and whales etc..

It's definitely not a nice place, and I understand that it would seem very dangerous to someone not familiar with the area and the circumstance and I certainly wasn't passing judgement on what you said. I was just commenting that, in my and many others experience, it's not a dangerous place per se, just an extremely depressing one. There was a club beneath the notorious Ivanhoe hotel where myself and some friends used to occasionally go to watch metal shows, and aside from having to avoid the discarded needles on the streets we never experienced any danger.

I've never been to Telegraph Cove, but I'd imagine it's a beautiful place. Lots of Black bears and other wild life I'd imagine.

no probs - didnt think you were passing judgment mate

i was just amazed at how it went in a couple of streets from a really nice area to that - so many people too.

I still say that I have had the best Indian meal ever in Vancouver at Vij's

Went on a boat trip from telepgraph cove to some place where the grizzlies are - was about 2 1/2 hours. Knight's Inlet or something like that ?