The Best City to Live In is....

[Asher]

What was the last interesting thing you did?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher
What was the last interesting thing you did?

Roadtrip to Montreal to sit in the 8th row at a concert in the Bell Centre.

You?

[Asher]

Small club concert downtown Calgary.

[techumseh]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn


Its not required, thats a fact. No one I went to school with in Ottawa has ever taken the SATs.

And this Imran DL thing is just boring. Go file a report if you're that concerned about it, you arrogant ass.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Asher

Canada's largest telecope is just south of Calgary, I guess I ought to go find a picture of it. It certainly has a lot do with with livability.

We were showing pictures of our cities.

[Asher]

Which city is that, it looked like a telescope to me?

[Dinner]

It's outside of the city but I think we can agree that the enviroment and conditions surrounding the city are also a useful indicator.

[RedFred]

My favorite US city is San Francisco. Stockholm, Copenhagen or London for my current European favs. But as I've said before it is all subjective.

But I can't support Asher's contention that Calgary is destined for greatness. The reasons why I feel it is never going to top any lists:

-High winds and highly variable weather.
-Redneck capital of the world.
-The Stampede.
-Economy is almost as cyclical and tied to oil prices as Edmonton.
-It is in the prairies. Off in the distance you can see the BC mountains but no ocean, no beautiful parks within city limits, no great views in every direction.
-It is a big sprawling mess where owning a car is almost inevitable.
-Calgary is ringed by a series of capped highly sour natural gas wells. If one blows and the prevailing winds are wrong a good chunk of the population would die.

[Asher]

Originally posted by RedFred
-High winds and highly variable weather.

Variable weather yes...but winds, wtf?

-Redneck capital of the world.
-The Stampede.

wtf?

-Economy is almost as cyclical and tied to oil prices as Edmonton.

It's diversified immensly over the past decade, and the economy's been pretty solidly positive for several decades now...

-It is in the prairies. Off in the distance you can see the BC mountains but no ocean, no beautiful parks within city limits, no great views in every direction.

Oh, no ocean. Every great city is on an ocean..

And those aren't BC mountains in the distance, they're mountains in Alberta...

-It is a big sprawling mess where owning a car is almost inevitable.

Oh nonsense, I lived fine without a car. I had to get one when moving to Markham though...

IIRC Flubber bikes a lot of places, even.

See the attached map for the planned LRT routes...

-Calgary is ringed by a series of capped highly sour natural gas wells. If one blows and the prevailing winds are wrong a good chunk of the population would die.

*cough*bull*****cough*

Typical jealous BC hippy.

We'll value your opinions when you learn to elect a government that won't run your fragile economy into the ground repeatedly.

There are reasons Calgary runs circles around Vancouver in terms of growth (economically and population-wise) over the past 25 years.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Asher

-Redneck capital of the world.
-The Stampede.

wtf?

Those are the buttons to push for a reaction.

Oh, no ocean. Every great city is on an ocean..

Curiously... most are, or they are on a major waterway of some sort. I mean the really big ones that come up all the time in many contexts.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Asher:

Are you saying that Calgary public transit is what makes the city so much better than Vancouver?

Personally, I know nothing about Calgary transit. Just asking.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Oh, I see now. It looked like a transit map, but then I noticed the blue shaded areas.

[Asher]

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
Asher:

Are you saying that Calgary public transit is what makes the city so much better than Vancouver?

Personally, I know nothing about Calgary transit. Just asking.

No, it was regarding RedFred's assertion that you need a car.

The vast majority of people working in the downtown core use transit, they don't drive to work...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by GePap
Calgary at nights looks so, well, unimpressive. IOts like looking at San Antonio or some other burg.

Pah. NYC isn't one of the cities with the best night skyline.

[Urban Ranger]

This is more impressive