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What Victoria Taught Me This Week
Each week in Victoria seems to reveal something new about life between two countries. As an American expat discovering Canada for the first time, and a Canadian repat returning home after years away, we notice the small details others might overlook—how neighborhoods move at a different pace, the quiet habits that define Canadian life, and the everyday moments that make Vancouver Island feel both familiar and surprising. What I Learned This Week in Victoria is our running notebook of those discoveries.
Blackout Curtains and Other Canadian Mysteries
Blackout Curtains and Other Canadian Mysteries There are some things you don’t truly understand about a place until you live […]
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Hockey Brings Me Home
A Season That Brought It All Back It is fitting this week to discuss hockey. This year’s Stanley Cup playoffs […]
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Spring In Victoria
When Spring Begins to Find You Settling In, Season by Season We’ve now completed seven months in our new neighborhood, […]
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Some discoveries take longer to unfold. These longer essays explore what it really means to build a life between two countries — leaving the familiar behind, learning the rhythms of Victoria, British Columbia, and discovering the landscapes and communities of Vancouver Island. Along the way we reflect on the quieter lessons of expatriate life: how a place begins to feel like home, how identity shifts when you live between cultures, and what everyday life in Canada reveals about ourselves. These stories go beyond quick observations to share the deeper experiences of living, exploring, and finding our place between two norths.
Discovering Life Between Two Norths
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