This town is where I grew up. My entire family is here from my parents to my granparents and also my brother and his family. Plus, I would rather live here than in some smoggy, noisy, crime filled city. If you have ever seen my home town you would understand what I mean. It's beautiful here. Right in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. From my parents front yard you have to look straight up to see the tops of the mountains and, in the right conditions, the aurora borialis (spelling?) is awesome.

Neither BDSM Tourguide nor myself are "party animals". Granted, yes it would be nice to be able to have people to relate to, who are interested in the lifestyle, but we can do fine even if it is just he and myself. We are willing to make sacrifices in order to have other ties other than just ones related to BDSM. If we really want to se the scene, we can take day trips to the city 3 hours away.

However, for right now, we are where we want to be for the most part. I especially want to be here close to my family since I am going to have our first child and I can be around people I know are going to be supportive and who have had children in the last few years.

As for the states, well neither of us is too anxious to go back there, to be quite frank. We prefer Canada over the USA for reasons that you probaboy would not understand unless you have actually lived here for an extended period of time. I, myself, didn;t even realize what this place had to offer until I came back after a year.

What I am trying to say is thatjust because it is a small town, don't knock it. We are not completely driven by the lifestyle. There are other concerns that we have to look at, like our child being able to see his/her grandparents, uncles, aunts, great grandparetns and what not.

In my opinion, living in the USA is not all it is cracked up to be. I say this from having lived there for a while. Though I won't go into the specifics of it all since this is a BDSM forum, and not a "my country is better than your country" debate forum.

I will say this though. I AM CANADIAN and I am damned proud of it