Let’s talk about mailboxes. Living in the province certainly puts you in a disadvantage. Would you believe that my parents dont have a NUMBER in their address? And yet, the postman brings packages and letters. Proof that everybody knows everybody here — and that what comes around goes around. Anyhow, Im becoming obsessed with getting our own mailbox lately, I specifically want the whitehall products, there is something about them that just screams “classic mailbox” to me — stuff that you see from movies.

People here also know you by your last name. Instead of house numbers being used as address plaques (remember I just said there are addresses that have NO numbers?), they use their last names. It seems there is no escape from financial collectors here

Id love to make an address plaque with or last name AND house number someday - when we have own house. Let’s just hope and pray that it will be soon for us.