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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Just because you know your neighbours doesn't mean it's an actual community. Kensington, Mission, Bridgeland...those neighbourhoods have character. .
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seems like this is a slightly separate issue though. Calgary is a young city that has grown quickly. whether the city had grown with more or less sprawl you would still have people living in newer places...you seem to be defining character and by extension community in part by the age of the area
perhaps we have a different definition of community
again, I'm not denying sprawl as an issue in Calgary, it is...and I'm looking at things differently now that I have kids...when we first moved back to Calgary we were more inner city in a post-war neighbourhood. There were no children there, almost all original owners. nice place, but everyone was inside their house, not visiting much and little life on the street. we 've moved to what people would call the suburbs (admittedly we put alot of time and research into our choices). there are active parks, neighbourhood parties (probably the most community spirit I've ever seen on Hallowe'en was this year, and i"ve lived in all kinds of communities in several different Canadian cities over the years)
I guess I would just caution against generalizing