u/tastymuffinsmmmmm

Hello!
I've been DNing for a while and want to settle down. I've dreamed of moving to Canada for years and now an opportunity to become a resident opened up.

I am into videogame design, live music, animation, and other nerdy things. I'm also into AI development and sofware engineering, and love connecting with other entrepreneurs and DNs.

Montreal (from what I've heard) has better culture but I'm scared of the language barrier (I do not speak French) and the weather (I'm from a warm climate). Vancouver has access to nature and closeness to the US. I want my hobbies to include camping and hiking at some point, but I'm afraid that the community there might be too "sterile" or corporate.. so it might be harder to make friends and form community. But this might just be presumptuous.

So where would you go? Does anyone have experience living in one/both? Where would you recommend moving?

EDIT: I am looking for a home base, which I can go on nomad stints from

My friend and I are planning a spontaneous Scotland road trip with a rental car next week. We lean more "hippie", planning for a mix of BnBs+camping in a tent. We are quite dynamic and have about 14 days.

What are some great places to check out while we're at it? We're interested in beautiful mountains and avoiding cities as much as possible. We're also interested in discovering places with interesting locals, musicians, hitchhikers.

Also, is Isle of Skye a no-go? From what it seems it's going to be over-touristy in August. I don't know what it's like but heard it's a must see.What are some good alternatives?

What are some "obvious" things we should know about Scotland before visiting? Except the driving on the left thing. And finally how possible is it to just "wing it"? We have the ability to sleep in a tent so we're basically free as long as the weather permits it.

Help us make our fairy dreams come true!

I could use until a few minutes ago. Now it says "Model not available in your region".

Senior dev. It's just so good. I use Fast most of the time, normal speed for background tasks. The sheer speed of it is worth it.

I use Claude for harder reasoning tasks, but that's about it.

Wonder if someone's had a similar change.

I can't prove it, but I'm 99% sure they distilled Claude to train this new model. It talks a lot like Claude, walks through conversations in a similar style, and is way better at following instructions - just like Claude.