'Tis indeed a lovely area ... for the moment. But just as living on the island is dangerous, so is the Lower Mainland right up to the Rockies: When the tectonic plates shift….
Except that I am in the spot deemed the lowest earthquake risk in the province. When the insurance person tried to sell me the same earthquake insurance I had on the island, I pointed out that the insurance company's back-up servers were here for that very reason - lowest risk of earthquake.