After living in Vancouver for several years, I found that "artist" is usually just a nice way of being unemployed. I had a few friends that were "starving artists" and used to live their lives couch surfing. Yet we always seemed to pity them and want to help...
Don't get me wrong, I love the arts and I think one of the things that makes a city nice is the arts. Calgary has some maturing in that regard, but it's a lot more cosmopolitan than people in Toronto and Vancouver give it credit for.
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