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"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 07/16/2019 at 09:05 • Filed to: None

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Took yesterday off, now back to reality. DD’d the truck all weekend, it was nice. Photo from the patio of my favorite Cafe in the village.

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/16/2019 at 09:39

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Gotta do what you gotta do to put money into the car fund.

/Is only working 3 .5 days this week

Milky > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/16/2019 at 09:43

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Nice picture.

Now that I said something nice ... a pet peeve of mine is when rich people call an area something its not. “Village ... population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.” Theres a “ village” around Detroit, its  nothing like the village I grew up near.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB 07/16/2019 at 10:38

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What do you do in your downtime? Did you end up picking up an instrument?

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/16/2019 at 10:44

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Yeah buddy! The guitar! 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB 07/16/2019 at 10:45

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Nice!  

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Milky 07/16/2019 at 12:00

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I was thinking about that this morning actually. Historically, we’ve been a village and historically, it’s been a poor area.

Now however, it is very wealthy and has more people (3000+ people).

However, I think the following is relevant :

1) Village can be something cultural. The culture/feeling of Fort Langley is unique. We have no chains, all shops are boutique/independant/hyper local. The village is walkable, safe and clean.

2) I think terms like hamlet, village, town and city are proportional . A city in the far north is a town to most people in denser areas. A village in an urban area like Metro Vancouver would be a town to those in more rural areas.

Milky > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/16/2019 at 14:21

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You’re probably right, the one in the ‘burbs here is an outdoor mall and gets me riled up when people refer to it as an area. B ut I can remove my cynic hat, look at your pretty picture and be happy.  

ranwhenparked > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/16/2019 at 18:49

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And s ometimes, its part of the legal name of the municipality. In my state, “ village” is completely  interchangeable with “town” and “city”, just depends on what word they liked best when they first organized. 

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ranwhenparked 07/16/2019 at 18:54

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I don’t think that is the way it works here. Fort Langley is really just a neighborhood in a larger municipality. I don’t think we’ve ever had our own government since we joined Canada.

ranwhenparked > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/16/2019 at 18:57

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Yeah, in your case, it was probably more of a disorganized frontier settlement generically called a village, that over time was incorporated into a larger municipality, but kept its own cultural identity.