Two Norths. One New Direction.
THE JOURNEY OF AN expat and repat discoverING life on Vancouver Island
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LIFE BETWEEN TWO NORTHS
Reflections on living between Canada and the United States
MOVING TO CANADA
Insights and lessons learned for Americans considering the move north.
EXPLORE VANCOUVER ISLAND
Neighbourhoods, coastal walks and everyday island discoveries.
FAVOURITE HAUNTS
Local cafés, bookstores, markets, and places we return to again and again.
WE WENT QUIET. VICTORIA DIDN’T.
Two Norths is back.
A new installment of 'WHAT VICTORIA TAUGHT ME' coming Soon
We went a little quiet this summer—not because we ran out of things to write about, but because we were busy doing the thing that started Two Norths in the first place: learning how to actually live here.
Now we're settled in our new home and have found our community. We've returned with a notebook full of stories. Island life, lessons on ferry schedules, cross-border Social Security implications, Canadian banking differences, the surprises of BC real estate, new Favourite Haunts—and, naturally, another Victoria ghost story. (It's a doozy!)
Turns out, taking the summer off gave us an awful lot to talk about.