At 06:13 PM 14/04/2007, you wrote:
>Kelowna is now favoured as a retirement city, due to
the normally
>mild weather. It is the fastest growing population in
Canada and
>walled and gated communities abound. Old orchards are
being ploughed
>up for new residential areas. The lake, many golf
courses, winter
>skiing and sports, and more make it a nice place to
be, but prices
>are now equal to Vancouver.
Kelowna, in fact the entire Okanagan Valley, is a dessert
environment, the fruit crops and orchards there all irrigated
with water drawn from the series of mountain-fed rivers and
lakes that run through it. This sort of environment was
central to a classic of noir, or at least neo-noir (if that's
important to you): Chinatown. The sequel dealt with
unsuitable land development. Always lots of potential for
noir in land development.
>I have a plot set in Kelowna to take advantage of the
large
>evangelical population and affinity fraud, which has
been and
>remains a problem for local evangelical
churches.
Ripping off the righteous. I like it.
Best, Kerry
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