I fell across this forum while trying to get information about Victoria, B.C. Go figure. I'm a family doctor and farmer, living in Costa Rica, a pacifist country, for most of my adult life. I have 3 homeschooled kids...2 of them grown and on their own, one still at home. We travel for about half the year, doing home exchanges with families all over the world...too fine, and it makes the travel affordable. I also have a small ethnic foods business and we grow coffee and about anything we can eat. The Hip Forums name caught my eye. I lived in the Haight in '67-'68...fine times. Saramandaia