{"id":82970,"date":"2017-08-02T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=82970"},"modified":"2020-04-05T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T20:50:10","slug":"the-last-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=82970","title":{"rendered":"The Last Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok… so… it’s true. I’m leaving my ridiculously amazing travelling gig to take something local in Montr\u00e9al. There will be travel; but, a different kind of travel that is done at a sustainable pace (hopefully).<\/p>\n

It feels weird. This site will definitely evolve.<\/p>\n

Montr\u00e9al is not a bad place to land and there are a lot of great things happening here. For one, the Canadian brain drain<\/a> is reversing. For the first time in my 20-year-ish career, I’m seeing the flow of brainpower into a Canadian city… and it’s my city. <\/p>\n

I’m actually one of these people. I’ll no longer be feeding into the success of Silicon Valley and cities like Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. I will be feeding my energy and brainpower into Canada… into a Canadian company.<\/p>\n

On Monday, I took what I hope will be my last flight for a while… to Washington D.C. of all places. <\/p>\n

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Thankfully, the destination wasn’t D.C. because who in their right mind wants to go to D.C. anymore? <\/p>\n

It was Virginia… quintessential suburban America… a place where bedroom communities are surrounded by green, strip malls, prefabricated town centres, and a plethora of Whole Foods grocery stores. <\/p>\n

The whole thing was anti-climatic.<\/p>\n

The flight out, however, was a disaster. It seems only fitting that the last flight be on United… an airline that can’t make things work even when the Gods throw rainbows and unicorns into their lap. <\/p>\n

As a constant-sorry-saying<\/em> Canadian I’m tired of hearing United say “sorry” at every step and turn. United: stop saying you’re sorry a hundred-million times a day and just get your shit together!<\/em><\/p>\n

I won’t miss the weekly jaunts on the hot-mess shitshow that is the airline industry.<\/p>\n