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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
And I'm sure your kid's rooms aren't bare drywall and you don't sleep on an army cot.
People like nice things around them. That's it.
Your judgement of "ugly" doesn't mean much. Neither does mine.
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I think there is a big difference between nice things and $25 million dollar bridges.
I don't think we need bland concrete bridges or buildings, but spending insane amounts of money on buildings and bridges thinking that they will attract tourists or make our city any better seems insane me.
Certainly there has to be a middle ground between artsie-fartsie wasteful projects like this and other buildings that have been mentioned in past threads and the bare bones approach.
The buildings and bridges in Calgary look fine to me and they didn't seem to cost an arm and a leg.
The ugly comment certainly was meant as my opinion and it means no more or less than the next guy, I agree 100% with you there. But again I am not saying lets waste $25 million dollars on a bridge. I would think that a bridge that costs that much should at least look half-decent.