07-26-2017, 02:39 PM
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evil of fart
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Avenue Magazine Ranks Neighbourhoods - 2017
You have to be kidding me.
Look at all the love they gave NW communities - half in the top ten are NW. It's ridiculous. Varsity is number one and most of it sucks so bad with boring lame houses on boring lame streets with nothing to do but walk over to Marketmall. Best neighbourhood in Calgary? Impossible. Objectively wrong.
Huntington Hills? Brentwood? Those are rundown dumps. Edgemont is about as soulless as suburbia can get. The best thing to do in anyone of those neighbourhoods is tromp through dog crap and swat at mosquitoes while wading through thistle and dead grass on Nosehill (when it isn't burning, that is).
I hate this list so much.
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07-26-2017, 02:40 PM
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Scoring Winger
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And so it begins
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07-26-2017, 02:41 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Oh. This #### again.
Damn you NHL Off-Season! Have you no heart?!?!?
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07-26-2017, 02:42 PM
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Not Taylor
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary SW
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I refuse to click on that link and support this ####ty list every year.
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07-26-2017, 02:45 PM
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Can at least get it out of the way early this year?
They purposely create this list with the intention of drawing in page hits due to disbelief and "outrage" over ranking. That's what they do, they do it every yeah, they're doing this year, again, and they will also do it next year.
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07-26-2017, 02:48 PM
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evil of fart
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jayswin
Can at least get it out of the way early this year?
They purposely create this list with the intention of drawing in page hits due to disbelief and "outrage" over ranking. That's what they do, they do it every yeah, they're doing this year, again, and they will also do it next year.
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Yeah of course because I don't think anybody even in Huntington Hills or Brentwood would claim they live in one of the 10 best neighbourhoods in town. They've got "at least it isn't the NE" going for them, but not much else.
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07-26-2017, 02:49 PM
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Franchise Player
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I heard them bitching about the list this morning, apparently Forrest Lawn placed pretty high. I think they are going out of their way to piss off people.
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07-26-2017, 02:51 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Calgary
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Haha Canyon Meadows at number 20 overall. Re-opening the aquatic centre helped that much? Or was it our inclusion in the "ready2engage" brigade against public transit that bumped us up?
EDIT: Bumped from number 74 last year?
Last edited by Regular_John; 07-26-2017 at 02:53 PM.
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07-26-2017, 02:51 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbob
I heard them bitching about the list this morning, apparently Forrest Lawn placed pretty high. I think they are going out of their way to piss off people.
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As your schtick gets old it has to up its game.
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07-26-2017, 02:52 PM
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Franchise Player
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Lakes objectively superior something something
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07-26-2017, 02:54 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Whatever their #1 community is, I've been there and watched feral dogs eating bunnies while wearing Edmonton Oilers jerseys.
So there.
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07-26-2017, 02:54 PM
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aka Spike
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The Darkest Corners of My Mind
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Woohoo!! I'm 167!!!
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07-26-2017, 02:56 PM
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Franchise Player
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Ramsay 88 over all but Inglewood is 13? They are practically the same community.
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07-26-2017, 03:00 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sliver
You have to be kidding me.
Look at all the love they gave NW communities - half in the top ten are NW. It's ridiculous. Varsity is number one and most of it sucks so bad with boring lame houses on boring lame streets with nothing to do but walk over to Marketmall. Best neighbourhood in Calgary? Impossible. Objectively wrong.
Huntington Hills? Brentwood? Those are rundown dumps. Edgemont is about as soulless as suburbia can get. The best thing to do in anyone of those neighbourhoods is tromp through dog crap and swat at mosquitoes while wading through thistle and dead grass on Nosehill (when it isn't burning, that is).
I hate this list so much.
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You seem more riled up this year.
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Hah, we've been there done that so don't worry.
This list has to be a troll job. I don't want to single out specific neighbourhoods out of respect for posters that may live in them, but there are some really crappy communities on there that truly don't belong.
The easiest way to make a list like this would be to rank communities by average home price. The market has already ranked the best communities naturally. In general, more expensive neighbourhoods with lakes are better. It's that simple.
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07-26-2017, 03:03 PM
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evil of fart
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Wow, I sounded so zen last year.
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07-26-2017, 03:04 PM
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Franchise Player
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That was actually 2 years ago, last year you didn't really have 1 summary post but from what I saw you were also mellow.
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07-26-2017, 03:06 PM
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evil of fart
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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
That was actually 2 years ago, last year you didn't really have 1 summary post but from what I saw you were also mellow.
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I don't have an explanation for the change in attitude. This year I read it and it pissed me off hah.
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07-26-2017, 03:08 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sliver
Look at all the love they gave NW communities - half in the top ten are NW.
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Anecdotally, I see the demand in the NW. Houses sell quickly in the NW right now, often with multiple offers. People want to live there.
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07-26-2017, 03:09 PM
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First Line Centre
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Huh. McKenzie Towne is 37. Forest Lawn is 33.
huh.
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07-26-2017, 03:12 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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How do they calculate some of these things?
Ex. West Hillhurst:
Access to restaurants, coffee shops and bars
78/185
Really? That seems suspect.
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