04-18-2021, 04:43 PM
(04-18-2021, 10:31 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: What are the biggest car-free or biggest, most car-light places in Canada you can think of?
I mean, I'd include places like Old Montreal, which is not car-free at all, but is very pedestrian focused and car-limited.
Old Montreal isn't a real place with grocery stores though. I think the closest grocery store is the IGA in Complexe Desjardins which is 10 minutes away (ok not super far) and separated by Rene-Levesque, which is an urban highway really.
I've been trying to think about the best place in Canada to live and kind of coming up short. Central Vancouver maybe? I haven't spent a lot of time in Vancouver but if you got your work sorted it seems that you could otherwise live there without a car. If you can afford it.
Small towns like Canmore are probably ok for the services you can get in town. But then you occasionally have to leave town. Specifically about Canmore probably you live there for access to the mountains, and for those you need a car. But when you're not in the mountains you are ok. Dunno about how well they plow the streets in winter though.
Definitely not Halifax. Not St John's either I think.
Outside Canada we've been living in Wellington since January 2020 pretty successfully without a car.