I traveled to Eastern Canada last week and the Eastern Canadian provinces have one key bond: the population is extremely fat. Compared to Ontario the Eastern provinces are very sparse (and the territories are extremely isolating). New Brunswick has 750,000 people for an area 1/10th the size of Toronto – overall 1/40th as populated. (Protip: the highways are shit in Eastern Canada due to reduce tax revenue, be very careful when driving). This leads the eastern provinces to be a few things: less educated, heavy in drug use and super fat! The rate of obesity is ~50% higher in Eastern Canada compared to Ontario and Quebec. Obesity was the norm. “People” were manning the park stations, but these “people” were always large compared to humans. It is not as if there was one human to be a comparison (aside from myself). Everyone had a large girth and no one cared. Not fitting to the community came off as isolating as I didn’t wish to fall prey to their racism and obesity (also protip: Eastern Canada acts quite racist. Non-whites are infrequent, so non-whites are heavily grouped into the “others”).  I am white so everyone was really nice. I assume more people would act this way regardless of race as I expect it would supersede skin color; but I was actively warned multiple times by transplanted Ontarians of the active racism of Eastern Canadians. Actions out of ignorance, but ignorance none the less. That ignorance is the completely the basis for the obesity. Even the “thin” people were obese. I was actively criticized for being cold being exposed to an ocean wind in near freezing temps. It seems I am at fault for not having excess fat hanging off my body to warm myself (I understand the cultural aspect, but I completely judge you for your hanging rolls of fat. I don’t care if you are more warm, you are fat – and disgusting). I just want to say Eastern Canada is very beautiful and the people were amazing, but there was an obvious tension that I could summarize as “hickish”. Obese anti-outsiders. That is fine, but hated the hypocrisy of their obesity the most – good forbid they had to walk across a building or ascend a staircase – clearly the acts of gods.