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Originally posted by obelix
Calgary, Alberta: I lived here for a summer, moved to Vancouver for a year and moved back. Calgary is by far the most enjoyable place that I have ever lived. In terms of people, activities, scenery, and overall grandeur. It is not very crowded for such a large city, (approx 2 million inl surrounding cities) and it is very well planned. Weather is very reasonable. The winters are cold, but not unbearable and the summers are gorgeous. The only thing is, is that you can have any sort of weather on any given day of the year, but that really isnt so bad. Finding work in Calgary is so simple its not even funny. I see no reason why there are homeless people here because of the abundance of manual labour positions available city-wide. I recieved 3 phone calls the first day that I was passing out resumes and I started work the next day I highly recommend Calgary to you, if you are in search of relative calamity and peace of mind. There are a lot of nice areas to live in in all divisions of the city.
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I love Calgary....not my true home as far as my heart goes but it is a fantastic city. You can find anything you want up here, just as you will in the good ol' USA....you want rural, city-life, scenaric....it all depends on what you want where you will end up.
I was born in Edmonton (will never go back unless I have a DAMN good reason), lived in Calgary (out at the base of the Rockies) on an acreage but for me heaven is the Okanagan Valley which is what I consider "home" and now reside again in Calgary. Love Vancouver but it's a little too rainy and busy for me (as in traffic busy). The east is nice but Toronto is just way too impersonal for my tastes. You want friendly...come out west to the Stampede! yahoo!
Just as every other country we have our ups and downs. But, we have kick-ass medical care (and no, I don't think the red-tape to get it is as bad as some people make it out to be as long as you are on the up-and-up and not just trying to milk the system) and hell, we're just nice folks!
