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if all the people that i want to hang out with weren’t on the avalon, i’d probably not return. yeah sure i’d miss, hava java, the duke, and being able to find the globe, bottles of coor’s light and the western star aren’t quite the same, but the reason that i liked places like pouch cove are so much more present along the great northern. i realise that this is back to my isolationist tendencies but due to the circumstances of these places there is a sense of community and while it at times may fall short of my “strange” needs - no curry powder at the foodland in roddickton things seem geared for those who live here and here that is a much more exacting balance. conche has two conveniences less than 300 metres apart. i am sure that if something was in either of them that didn’t sell the profits would plummet as there would be no back-up.

while right now this is extreme,unlike bonne bay where being the off season only the essentials in town are open here everything is. granted the lounge only has three people in it during the evenings, but kearneys does a good substitution for tim’s where people meet over their morning coffee and the restaurant under the bed and breakfast is open.

i like to have to actively entertain myself. the days are longer but time doesn’t drag, with less amenities, it seems that more gets done. i like this paradox. i also know that this is a choice due to the house having neither phone, internet nor television service. houses over the area have satellite dishes and i heard the morning crowd at kearney’s talk about updating their face book page.

i miss pouch cove but in the times that i have been going there i have noticed that it is becoming more and more greater st. john’s it is becoming less of a community and more a place for people to sleep at the end of the day. st. john’s provides most of what is needed cape st. francis and while there are also two conveniences in pouch cove, two restaurants, and a lounge.

being off the avalon, i also notice how much the rest of the province is ignored by the capital, except for the call in programmes and the fisheries broadcast, it gets little notice. labrador might as well be alberta.