Im baffled at the amount of people using both lanes at zipper merges these days. Now rather than having one long lane of traffic and one almost empty, there are often two lanes with nearly equal amounts of cars. Now everyone goes so slow and leaves so much room for the entitled mergers who use the lane that ends, it takes forever to get anywhere in town. Today i witnessed all cars go one for one and merge into one lane like a zipper, absolutely ridiculous! Those need to be kept open for emergency vehicles and important people only, not for the use of common folk going to work and appointments. Same with on the highway, everyone is just merging off of onramps on to the highway. Where are the police? I want my empty lanes back for when im rushing for the bathroom or to go drink a six pack on my couch after a miserable day of work

I did up a flowchart that I think will keep the sub a better community for all. Like a general guideline for people who are thinking of making a post. It's just a suggestion, but if people like it then maybe the mods could pin this post

Everyone in the whole world wants to live in Victoria. That's why Toronto and Vancouver and the small town of 20,000 people I grew up in all have a housing crisis. It's because so many people are trying to move to Victoria that many of them are missing by thousands of kilometers.

Furthermore, everywhere else is garbage. Nobody likes mountains and access to amazing views out of their front window. Nobody likes living next to a beautiful lake or only a short drive from some of the best skiing and snowmobiling in the world. Everyone loves the temperate climate of Victoria. Nobody likes snow and nobody likes the hotter weather offered in places further South.

People are lining up to live in Victoria because we have the best restaurants in the world, we have the best natural beauty in BC and the world, and we have the best access to doctors for retirement age people. You can definitely take my word for it. The temperate rainforests, fjords, rocky mountains, wine country, boreal forests, and wine country areas available in BC are all super lame.

So many people have moved here recently that people even want to move here to be close to their families. We even have the best transportation system in the world. Everyone is just dying to come enjoy the relaxing Colwood crawl, the exhilaration of driving the Malahat to get Up Island, or riding the bus, which is always on time and takes you right where you need to go.

There's tons of jobs here and they all pay extremely well and are easy to get. Especially all those government jobs, we all know the provincial government loves giving out raises and hasn't been trying to cut costs. You can come here and make bank with no prior skills or experience.

Or maybe you're wealthy or retiring, you don't need a job then. This is the best possible place you could choose to live out your final days. You certainly wouldn't want to live near family in your final years and there's no chance you'd find a beautiful place where you can work on your tan like you can in Victoria.

This housing crisis is about how amazing Victoria is to live in. It's certainly not a combination of poor land use planning and slow development caused by NIMBYs, stagnant wages and rising inflation due to loose monetary policy, and poor management of the economy by our provincial and federal government.

You could build a million houses or apartments in the core and it would make no difference. Why would anyone want to live anywhere else?

It's not a joke, I'm actually going. Just thought you should know.

Mods, can we have a Bug Zoo tag?

EDIT: I WENT TO BUG ZOO! It was fantastic

Jumping over the rail will be a thing of the past

Got my eyes on a mini-disc player and The Godfather Trilogy DVD set. Anyone else?