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Originally Posted by jb101
Calgary - In my opinion...
Pros:
- Weather
- Hockey team (prob not for much longer though)
- Proximity to mountains
- Low taxes
- Very clean city, usually.
- Fish Creek park
- The bow (great fly fishing)
- Plenty of good paying work
Cons:
- Too many people, most of them rude. (Calgary has the most rude people of any place I've lived)
- Snobbiest people
- Red light cameras -- WTF?
- Some areas of the city really stink
- Traffic fucking blows, and the city is way too spread out.
- Shitty snow removal/sanding in the winter.
- Cost of living is high, compared to smaller / poorer cities.
I guess I live here because of the proximity to the mountains, I do lot's of outdoors things. I loved fish creek when I lived close. Now I live around sait and i have to plug my fucking nose to go outside or I choke from exhaust fumes.
All in all, my biggest problem with Calgary is Calgarians... Rude self righteous bunch. Almost all of my friends here are from BC or Sask. (I'm originally from Sask myself)
Now before the other Calgarians jump all over me, not all Calgarians are like that... But more than anywhere else I've lived.
My favorite city in Canada is North Vancouver, followed by Sask. I've only been further east than Winnipeg a few times, so I can't judge any of the cities out there very well.
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I agree with all the pros you have down there. The mountains, river and Fish creek are the best things about this city.
Some of the cons I don't see as cons though. Red light cameras... Got no problem with those. People running red lights deserve to be ticketed. Now speed cameras on the other hand... those are just a money grab. And the cost of living is relative to the work available wherever you go so I can't say that it's a con, though it is a bit higher than it used to be. I also don't find the traffic to be that much of a problem here setting aside certain areas at certain times but that probably has more to do with where and when your're driving than anything.
And your point about Calgarians I have a hard time swallowing. Given I am biased as I was born and raised here but I have travelled a lot and lived in other places for good lenghts of time and I've always looked at Calgarians as a nice group on a whole. As the city's grown I've noticed a lot more assholes here and there but that's to be expected in a City of this size.
Anyway, Calgary's a great place. Only think I don't like about it is its distance from the ocean. I love the ocean and wish I could spend more time on it, in it and near it but other than that Calgary's got everything I need and want.
