WTF no shopping malls? Powell River has two shopping malls. One is the Town Centre Mall and the other used to be called the Powell River Plaza but I think they just changed the name.

And P.R. is small. It's SMALL. It's isolated. If the weather gets bad, the ferries stop running. You might enjoy ferry rides in nice weather, but you might not enjoy it so much in weather like we had here yesterday with high winds and blowing snow.

There's absolutely no night life. There's probably no NaNo groups.

The climate, however, is much nicer than Calgary's.