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Originally Posted by 4X4
I'm losing your respect with these assertations? I read 150 posts in to this thread and you and muta are finding funny reasons to hate Calgary. You two are talking about culture, space, urban sprawl... Making quite a few 'assertations'. Pretty much all of them have been rebutted (is that a word?) and yet you still go on about these things. Muta has a funky formula to calculate urban sprawl, you're talking about lack of culture, identity...
I tell ya, you're 'losing my respect fast' because you can't see that many of the things you seek are already here. You may be desensitized from being here too long, but they're here. Culture? I guess you don't like the stampede and cowboy schtick, but it's a culture. And it's here. And it's a helluva lot more famous than whatever most cities put on yearly.
Heard about all the festivals we have every year? Seems like every week there's a different one advertised on the overpasses. Lilac, carifest, ummm... there are plenty more...
Identity? Fast paced, wealthy, young, diverse... Go hang around Vancouver and their "starving artists". Check out the other side of the fence. So we don't have a bunch of beatniks and buskers (and yeah, I know it wasn't you that pined for buskers), oops. Guess another nice part of our identity is that every winter, the frost gets rid of the pests. I, for one, love that.
What else? urban sprawl? You think that Calgary is the only city that ever grew out before up? It is a natural progression. Necessity is the mother of invention, my friend. And you can bet the farm that every city will grow outward until it hits a certain point. Calgary may or may not be at that point. As long as we are surrounded by flat, developable land, it will be cheaper to build out. Once outward expansion is no longer feasable, up it will go. And we will invent what we need.
I don't know how a guy can live in a place that has almost everything ans still find so many things to complain about. You've got your choice of housing, employment. You can walk in a park or swim in a lake. You can hike in the mountains, or camp or fish or ski. Go to the orchestra (wait, not anymore) go watch some live music, go to a bar strip. Go hit a museum, drive an hour to one of the most famous museums. Walk all over downtown without going outside. Stand at the top of the Calgary Tower and look down at center street. Then look up to Petro Center and wonder what the view is like from up there. Hit a casino, hit a flames game. Roughnecks. Go to stage west and watch some people fool around for an hour. Eat food from every continent... And still have mother nature in your back yard. World reknowned.
That might not be your thing. But just stop making it sound like this city is all wrong. Just because you can't see the beauty, doesn't mean it isn't there. It just means that you're close minded. Sorry about the assertations.  |
Then Calgary seems right up your alley, mate. Why would you ever want to leave? Everything is here! Man, did I overlook this place, you're absolutely right.
Screw New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, New Orleans, Mexico City, Rio de Janiero, Buenos Aires, London, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Brussels, Stockholm, Rome, Moscow, Dubai, Casablanca, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, Tapei, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Kyoto, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland...
Hell, screw Reykjavik!
Calgary is the one and only.
Man are my cheeks red.
