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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
I've never bought into the whole "This city has better this, better that" when it comes to people. Not sure how one city has a huge amount of worse drivers than another city. Granted, I haven't lived anywhere else, I haven't travelled a whole lot, but to me, people are people. You're going to have idiots in every city, you're gonna have rude people in every city, you're gonna have bad drivers in every city. It's just the way it is.
Don't take this post as me defending Vancouver. It's not like that at all. I don't really care what people think of Vancouver's drivers or people or anything like that. Every city has its fair share of all sorts of different groups. How is Vancouver THAT much worse than anywhere else in Canada?? I just don't understand that line of thinking.
I've never been in an accident(knocking on wood) in my life. If I were to move to Calgary and get into one or two in the first year of living there, I'm not going to say, "Calgary has way worse drivers than Vancouver." People are the same. Within reason of course. I'm not going to say people in Vancouver are the same as people in Ghana or anything like that. Oh and yes, I did bring up Ghana because of the Amazing Rave episode tonight.
At the end of the day, it's amazing what you find when you are looking for it or if a bad first impression taints your feeling towards something.
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i'm not basing my thoughts on the drivers in the cities, i'm basing them on the traffic infrastructure. downtown Vancouver is extremely poorly designed, while Calgary is quite simple. the other major cities that i've driven around in are Edmonton, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas, and Vancouver easily ranks at the top as the worst to find your way around in to me
should be interesting next year though, as i'm planning a cross country roadtrip, going through Toronto and Montreal, then dropping down into the states through Boston, New York, Washington, and Chicago. i'm curious to see how those will compare to what i'm already familiar with