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Considering places to relocate to for retirement, and this location right now looks like it might check the most boxes for me, but I need a reality check in case my research has mislead me.

Looking for a quiet life, mostly spend time at home, but do like to go for walks, and don't want to have to drive to a trail head all the time, so being near the beach, and having access to Pacific Spirit park on paper look like this is perfect. Is it?

I understand that I'd get a UNA card that would give me access to community benefits. I also understand a person of retirement age can access lectures at the university, audit classes and access some other university resources free of charge? How welcome are seniors to sit in on classes to just listen and learn?

I am wondering how realistic going car free would be? How realistic is it to depend on a mix of Uber and EVO, and for local trips get an E-Bike. If not, how realistic is it to install a car charger for an EV in the condos in Wesbrook.

I see there is a hospital in UBC with an ER but its not open 24x7, so if you need an ER after hours you'd go to VGH 20 mins away? How realistic is it to get a local family doctor, or will I need to look outside of the UBC / Wesbrook area?

The condos in Wesbrook are not very old, but I'm reading conflicting things about what the best time frame is. I read that building built in the 2000's are best because they began rainscreening them, but are better built than newer buildings. But then read that the newest buildings are best because they have AC and take into consideration the future weather trends and dealing with fire smoke? I also read its better to buy into a concrete building over a wood frame building because of the risk of water damage? Lastly I am wondering about units in the condo's that might be owned for investment and rented out. What's the ratio of investment units to people actually living in the units like?

From what I am reading Wesbrook is one of the safest neighbourhoods in the greater vancouver area, partly due to its isolation - true? Wondering if home encampments exist in the Pacific Spirit park and if yes, any issues or do they just keep to themselves?

Is it realistic with an E-bike to do my grocery shopping locally? I see 1 supermarket in Wesbrook and I see there is a farmers market seasonally. The other markets look more like convenience stores?

Thank you in advance for any responses.

I was doing a little research into these three vendors as they offer a similar product to each other.

Mostly I was curious about what data privacy laws each fell under, but then I realized that isn't enough because information sharing alliances also come into play.

I'm trying to decide which is the best choice from a privacy and security perspective?

Adguard falls under GDPR but originally was a russian company and still operates some of its team from inside russia, where I wonder if they could be compromised.

NextDNS chose to legally HQ themselves in the US instead of the EU, which means they also fall under Five-Eyes now too. You can store your logs in Switzerland, but my understanding is that being a US company, that won't protect the logs.

Control D similarly falls under Five-Eyes so I'm not sure that falling under PIPEDA protection is strong enough.

Feature	AdGuard	NextDNS	Control D
Legal Headquarters	Limassol, Cyprus (EU)	Wilmington, Delaware, USA	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Parent Company / Founders	Russian nationals (Semyon Chikikhin, Andrey Meshkov)	French nationals (Olivier Poitrey, Romain Cointepas)	Windscribe Limited (Yegor Sak)
Jurisdictional Alliance	EU Privacy Area (Non-aligned)	Five-Eyes Alliance (US)	Five-Eyes Alliance (Canada)
Employee Locations	Cyprus, Germany, and remotely in Russia	US and France	Canada, Ukraine, and globally remote
Data Privacy Law	Strict EU GDPR	US Law (Allows log storage in Switzerland)	PIPEDA (Canadian federal privacy law)
Code Verification	Open Source (Apps and extensions)	Closed Source (Proprietary backend resolver)	Closed Source (Proprietary backend, but open-source ctrld client daemon)
Default Logging Policy	No-logs enforced by default	Minimal operational logs (Customizable retention)	Logs are entirely optional (Can toggle from Full Analytics to zero tracking)

This past tuesday I decided to enabled Google Advanced Protection for my Google account. Then the next day I got an email informing me:

>Thank you for contacting us about restoring access to your Google Account.
Google will review your appeal as soon as possible. Most requests take 2 business days to review, but some might take longer.
You may be able to download your data from some Google services. To get started, sign in to your account. If your account is eligible, you’ll see a link to download your data.
Thanks for your patience.

Today I got an email saying my appeal was approved:

>Thank you for contacting us about your disabled Google Account. After review, your request for restored access was approved. To restore your account, you need to sign in and verify it as soon as possible. Disabled accounts are eventually deleted. Sign in soon to make sure you save any emails, contacts, photos, and other data saved in this account.

I did not submit this appeal, and I never lost access to my account, so was this related to enabling Google Advanced Protection. It is still enabled now. My worry is that somebody had access to a logged in session, and got kicked out when I enabled Advanced Protection and then submitted an appeal? I've had 2FA enabled on the account for years, before I enabled Advanced Protection, so even that theory doesn't sound likely. Just not sure what this was all about.

This is the same woman whose photo was posted in this subreddit recently. The police found her.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guelph/comments/1u0jc2l/suspect_sought_in_south_end_assault_vehicle/