starless_dreamer

Alright, picture this:

It’s warm, almost too warm. You feel in need of freshening up, so you walk over to this beach.

Now, this is a positively GORGEOUS beach. There’s powder white sand for miles, soft and smooth under your feet. You can’t believe you’re in Ontario, and begin to search for palm trees subconsciencously (sp?).

You step into the water, and it’s warm, like a bath. The sun makes it like this, late July to early August is the best for water temperature. You begin to walk out…

You’re still walking. There’s sand bars stretching waaaay out, and the sun is beating down on you. But you’re not longer too warm, you’re just perfect, as a gentle wave rolls in from the stream of a boat off in the distance.

There’s a boardwalk and an amusement park for when you get too pruny to stay in the water. It’s like a paradise, and you’re standing in the middle of it.

I dream about going to this place all year long because I love it so much. And when summer rolls around, and it’s time for our annual trip to my aunt and uncle’s condo out there, you can’t push me off cloud nine, even if you had a bulldozer.

This is a place DEFINETLY worth going to!!!

To be blunt, this city is dying.

Sure, it’s got a beautiful waterfront, and really isn’t all that horrid, but the people running this city have the intelligence of a half-eaten-fish-out-of-water.

The sleeping giant’s really nice, and we have some really nice recreational places like the Cascades, Centinial (sp?) Park, The Bluffs, ect, but it all gets rather…dull, after a while. No real GOOD bands come here, though we have a community auditorium, and everyone under 20 (and a good chunk of people that are ABOVE 20 as well) are all leaving because there’s a severe lack of jobs here.

Plus, our crime rate is insane and there’s a lot of drunken brutes wandering the Fort William district aimlessly, asking people to be in porno’s. Who wants their kids growing up in that?

Thunder Bay has its pluses, but its negative factors FAR outweigh them.