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greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
Prince Rupert, BC, Canada.
PoetryNEmotion · F
@greenmountaingal Why are you mocking that place? I want to know being Canadian and all....
greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
@PoetryNEmotion Sorry! Most of Canada is pretty cool. And one of my best and closest friends is from Canada.
However, I once spent a truly awful summer on an old leaky barge in Prince Rupert. I had agreed to visit a man whom I was (very foolishly) considering for marriage. (He was a US American). The man was abusive in every way, a liar and a very frightening person (who later murdered his own son for the insurance money!) Within days of arriving, I knew I had to get out of there. That's when the transportation strike started; I was stuck there for almost 3 months and was a very frightened young woman the whole time, abused, overworked (had to do all the housework and cooking for him and his four kids including his 3 angry teenagers), and wondering if I would ever get out of there alive. It was cold and rainy. Every woman I met accepted being beaten by her man as a normal way of life. The place was full of drunk fishermen and a lot of people who hated women and US Americans (controversy about the Alaska pipeline). Unless they insulted me, they didn't speak to me. It was a very long scary depressing summer.
However, I once spent a truly awful summer on an old leaky barge in Prince Rupert. I had agreed to visit a man whom I was (very foolishly) considering for marriage. (He was a US American). The man was abusive in every way, a liar and a very frightening person (who later murdered his own son for the insurance money!) Within days of arriving, I knew I had to get out of there. That's when the transportation strike started; I was stuck there for almost 3 months and was a very frightened young woman the whole time, abused, overworked (had to do all the housework and cooking for him and his four kids including his 3 angry teenagers), and wondering if I would ever get out of there alive. It was cold and rainy. Every woman I met accepted being beaten by her man as a normal way of life. The place was full of drunk fishermen and a lot of people who hated women and US Americans (controversy about the Alaska pipeline). Unless they insulted me, they didn't speak to me. It was a very long scary depressing summer.
PoetryNEmotion · F
@greenmountaingal What if you weren't in that situation? Then you may have found a really nice person in that horrid place. I am glad you got free. British Columbia is the only other province in Canada in which I would live.
greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
@PoetryNEmotion I have often wondered if things in Prince Rupert would have been better if I had met some other people. I am sure some people there must've been decent.