watching @notjustbikes 's videos just makes me bitter these days.

not his fault, of course, since his videos are excellent.

but I literally do not believe that Canada will ever be anything other than an unaffordable dead mall of a country. I'm probably 2-3 years from being forced out of the city I grew up in, and since I'll never get a university degree, I'll never be allowed to live anywhere in a place with actual urbanism, like Europe. any raise I get in my day job career will just get eaten by cost of living increases.

after 15 years of resisting and trying to be transit-only, I'm getting my full driver's license so that when getting evicted to the middle of nowhere finally happens, at least I won't be completely unable to go anywhere. a cold comfort, really.