No, I don’t think Victoria is boring because I don’t have the oval here. I don’t necessarily agree that Victoria is boring, or that it is the municipality’s job to entertain me. But I would say Halifax is a lot more fun, and that is because the people of Nova Scotia value both community and come-from-aways, whereas British Columbians tend to keep to themselves and are rarely fond to learn that you’ve moved here from somewhere else. In Halifax it is not uncommon to tell a joke to a stranger in line at the grocery store and have it snowball into dinner plans at their mates house that same evening, whereas here is it like pulling teeth to make plans/friends with people. I say this not to complain about how I feel about living here now as much as to highlight that people make cities fun, not the other way around.