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Who lives near or in London, Ontario, Canada????  :angel:

If you do let's chat... Would like to know some people closer to me for chats.

I'm from Petawawa... Dono how far that is away tho.. Good luck :)

I'm from Waterloo! But I'm currently in exile a long way from home...

Still happy to chat with a backhomer.

  Um, my grandmother lives in London, but I'm sure that's not what you had in mind! ;)

Oh Wow that's fantastic. Do any of you ever back to London?

Do you all like London?

I was in K-W over the weekend, but didn't make it as far as London.

My girlfriend during university went to Western, so I have lots of nostalgic memories of London. Nothing trans-related, though.

What's your sense of the city's level of acceptance? It struck me as a pretty progressive, liberal town, but one with a conservative undercurrent. How are you finding London for accessibility of services?

Well, since I am not transitioning as of yet. I really don't use any support groups.

My so called friends would banish me if they ever found out. So even though I am on HRT
I have no intentions of telling any one.

I actually did tell me girlfriend who doesn't understand a single thing about this community.
So I just do my own thing and move along as nothing has changed.

For the city, Well. I was in Harveys one day and a Trans lady was in line and she got all kinds of negative looks. If I wasn't with my GF I would have talked to her. Kind of attractive woman too.

But I don't think any community makes any kind of difference, it's the people in it.
A Community doesn't make for a happy place, only the singular people do....

Ginger.

Quote from: GingerMaxim on July 19, 2015, 04:45:09 AM
Oh Wow that's fantastic. Do any of you ever back to London?

Do you all like London?

  I was more a fan of London before all the sprawling housing developments started up.  The "pick your own" farms pretty much disappeared and a lot of the countryside was consumed.  I used to go there at least twice a year but now I hardly have the time.  Also my grandma doesn't know about my transition and my mom would prefer to keep it that way.  If I do go again I'm not sure how that's going to be handled.

  There's a few nice pockets of park and wilderness there that I appreciate.  I used to spend hours roaming forest and bog when I was a kid as the 'tomboy' I was!

Yes the city has changed dramatically.
I remember all the pastures that were inside London, they are all gone
in place for parking and housing. YUK

  Remember the original "Wally World"?

Violet, the Wally World went broke, East Park Golf Gardens bought the infrastructure and re-installed it next to their golf course on HamRoad.

London... nice town, love the music festivals in the summer months, the theatre, the art, and how diverse the culture here has become. The rainbow community here has made great strides in the last 40 years, and although there will always be haters, we have a lot more allies now :)

chloeD33, Petawawa is about 8 hours by car from here.

I'm about 5.5 hours north in Sudbury. Always happy to talk. :)

I lived there when I was a little kid.  Those winters are brutal compared to Southern California!  I'm guessing I wouldn't recognize it these days.

I most certainly do remember Wally World. What a blast the super tall fast slide was and I loved the lazy river...

I am from Sudbury....

I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan.  About 3 hours away.  Does it count if I am from over the border?

Of course, I am interested in talking to any one and having a friendship.

How are you?

Ginger... :)

Quote from: KimSails on July 23, 2015, 11:33:58 AM
I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan.  About 3 hours away.  Does it count if I am from over the border?

I actually went to Ann Arbor Michigan University as a Co-op learning experience 26 years ago, while I went to school in Toronto. I think we stayed in the dorms...

My memory is horrible and really can't remember any of the trip.

I never made it Wally World, but the discussion is making me nostalgic for Kitchener's late, great Pioneer Sportsworld, since replaced with a generic commercial power center.  :-\

I also went to sportsworld.

It was after a wedding. We all went there for the day after going out for breakfast at this super shady diner.

I ended up having food poisoning.

Quote from: GingerMaxim on July 23, 2015, 01:12:01 PM
I actually went to Ann Arbor Michigan University as a Co-op learning experience 26 years ago, while I went to school in Toronto. I think we stayed in the dorms...

My memory is horrible and really can't remember any of the trip.

Wow! I was in school there back then.  Who knows, maybe we passed each other on the sidewalk!

Quote from: GingerMaxim on July 24, 2015, 04:16:39 AM
I also went to sportsworld.

It was after a wedding. We all went there for the day after going out for breakfast at this super shady diner.

I ended up having food poisoning.

Considering the restaurants in that part of town, I'm not surprised.  :(

We came from Neill Wycik Co-op in Toronto and took a bus full of us...
I remember the party on the bus. Damm...

I lived in London in 1974/75 - I moved there when I 'transitioned' and was living there when I had SRS. I had a good "team" at the University Hospital and helped them establish their "gender clinic" - I was "the first one they had ever seen" LOL! Don't know if the clinic is still operating or if the government took it away from them and sent everyone to the Cluck Institute (actually it was the Clark Institute but "Cluck" was more appropriate!)

Hi Northern Jane, By the name do you live up North?

I am originally from Sudbury?

I am not sure if their is a Clark area?

I moved here in '78, I was only 12.
I honestly do NOT like this city. Maybe because I was taken away from my home town and all my friends?

Quote from: GingerMaxim on July 25, 2015, 08:14:26 AM
I am originally from Sudbury.

How do you feel about Sudbury? I've never lived there, but I'm mad for the look of the town.

i just went back last summer and so much has changed.

I went back to a few of my places where I lived and wow...

But I think it's changed for the better.

If I could I would move back. But being unemployed and on ODSP due to my
illness really wouldn't make any sense.

Not to pry, but wouldn't your ODSP move with you as long you staying within the province?

Yes most likely it would.

Quote from: GingerMaxim on July 25, 2015, 08:14:26 AM
Hi Northern Jane, By the name do you live up North?

I do not give out my 'street name'. I am not open to strangers about my past and prefer to leave it lay dead.

QuoteI am not sure if their is a Clark area?

The Clark Institute started doing "gender research" under Ken Zucker in the 1970s but Zucker  was an advocate or "repairitive therapy" and believed trans was a mental disorder that could  be cured with therapy so he was hardly unbiased and their "studies" were aimed at proving HRT and SRS were NOT valid treatments for GID. The Clark became part of the CMHA I believe. Zucker did  a GREAT deal of damage and it is good that he is gone.

Just to clarify I wasn't asking for your street name, just the northern city you live in.... :)

I have lived, worked, or studied in Toronto, London, Ottawa, Kirkland Lake, Montreal, and Edmonton (and now live in none of those places LOL!)

N.J.
All those places... So familiar to me :)
The big revealing personal question, please forgive me for being so forward...
Have you... Um... Ever...
Um
Bought a book at the Highway Book Shop on Hwy 11 outside Cobalt?

Umm I am pretty I have not bought a book on the highway...

Or is this code for something else?

Quote from: EllieM on July 27, 2015, 11:38:11 PM
N.J.
All those places... So familiar to me :)
The big revealing personal question, please forgive me for being so forward...
Have you... Um... Ever...
Um
Bought a book at the Highway Book Shop on Hwy 11 outside Cobalt?

.
I remember passing that store!

I have a copy of "Backhouses of the North" sitting in the cottage... umm... backhouse. :)

When I was driving 11 more often, I stopped in there from time to time. Great place if you love books :)

Isn't camh like really good now?

Rumour has it that regime change has done them well.

I see you're in Petawawa. Out of curiosity, are you accessing care in Ottawa or North Bay?

Ottawa.. Never been to North Bay

Quote from: Mado G on July 28, 2015, 02:59:06 PM

I have a copy of "Backhouses of the North" sitting in the cottage... umm... backhouse. :)

I am familiar with that particular tome, having first encountered it at a lovely dacha on Lake Rosseau. I did manage to obtain a copy for our own wc, however after a series of moves, I have since lost track of it. Perhaps a trip to Cobalt or New Liskeard is in order...

Go Canada Eh! Edmonton area! woot go Oilers!