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[BethAnne]

According to the Ford service guy the battery is on the driver's side but they have "protected" (read: hidden) it with a plastic cover which has to come off first.

Scary drive to Red Deer as the snow was blowing and drifting heavily...if I hadn't needed groceries I'd have stayed home.

 

[Graeme Decarie]

Do you live way off in the barren wilderness of that blighted province?

 

[BethAnne]

Do you live way off in the barren wilderness of that blighted province?

almost...1/2 hr from the nearest store that isn't a convenience store.

 

[paradox3]

Half hour on foot or by car?

 

[BethAnne]

Half hour on foot or by car?

car...on a good day with dry roads.

 

[paradox3]

Oh boy . . . . don't know how I would feel about that.

 

[BethAnne]

My appointments today were in the city an hour away from home.

 

[KayTheCurler]

I found that wee video too Pontifex. Battery location for Ford Escape 13/14/15. Hope the car is running again!

 

[Graeme Decarie]

I lived six or seven years in a log cabin on a lake in the Laurentians north of Montreal. The nearest town was a half hour. My drive to teach in Montreal was over an hour. I loved the cabin and the lake and the forest. But, oh, I wouldn't go for that remoteness again.

 

[Carolla]

I remember Beloved posting about her hours of travel for medical appointments ... she lived in Flin Flon I think. I would not LAST in such a situation!
Speaking of remote - anybody watch Kevin McLeod's series Escape to the Wild? He visits ex-pat Brits who have relocated to remote locations. I just watched one on a family of 5 who lived all alone on a remote island in Tonga, south Pacific. Fascinating.

 

[BethAnne]

Not forested...just in the middle of rural farming country.

 

[You just never know]

One nice thing about living in the city is I can walk to a close by grocery store. The downside is traffic...took 95 minutes to get home from work on transit today. In summer a little over 30 minutes when I commute on my bicycle.

 

[paradox3]

I can walk to quite a few places from my house. Even the mall but that takes an hour so I don't do it very often. The LAST time I walked to Scarborough Town Centre was before I retired.

 

[Luce NDs]

Motive's tuff?

 

[Luce NDs]

almost...1/2 hr from the nearest store that isn't a convenience store.

An inconvenience to say less 'r Moor ... when you're out there ... as the Celts would say ... hounded?

 

[Luce NDs]

I lived six or seven years in a log cabin on a lake in the Laurentians north of Montreal. The nearest town was a half hour. My drive to teach in Montreal was over an hour. I loved the cabin and the lake and the forest. But, oh, I wouldn't go for that remoteness again.

I have a medium .. a remote idea'Eire of what you speak ...

 

[BethAnne]

3 blocks to the post office and bank...5 blocks to the convenience store...9 blocks to my sisters.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Very small village, then. Here in Ontario, they've lost their banks, post offices and even their convenience stores, unless they're on a corner with a gas station.

 

[BethAnne]

We have a restaurant with gas station on the highway 5 blocks away from my house...liquor store 4 blocks away...hardware 6 blocks away...antique store 7 blocks away...private Christian school across the street - used to be public school but was closed a handful of years ago due to low enrollment.

Technically, we're a hamlet - lost village status...population is roughly 350 including the various stray dogs and cats.

 

[Tabitha]

I can walk to groceries, the bank, pharmacy, without snow I sometimes bike to church. I do usually do groceries by car thogh as with my hockey billets a good amount of food is bought.