Intro

Ok, this blog is to try and do something about my biggest pet peeve about living in Vancouver. I have had a number of friends move away for the single purpose of leaving this unfriendly community to have more normal human interaction. If you could set a temperature to casual social interaction in Vancouver, it would be like doing things outdoors in -35c weather. 

Even among the people from the rest of Canada who move here, the city takes a toll on their casual interaction.  I've seen them hesitant or confused about interacting when in other cities they wouldn't be.

I've also seen something die in people's eyes when they try to be social and get a cold shoulder.


Frigid: "Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service."
 -- Webster's Dictionary (http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?resource=Webster%27s&word=frigid&use1913=on)