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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler
See Sliver's comment. Also, terrible access. Also, a bunch of stuff I'd rather not post because it might offend.  Also, far from any decent park. |
Lived there for 2 years. Agree with you ten times over. Just as a little preface before my rant, I'm a suburbanite so when I speak ill of Evanston, it's actually not that I would much rather sip latte's in Sunnyside but rather that Evanston is the worst place I've lived among 6 different exterior Calgary suburbs.
Executive Summary:
Evanston is a community that people like Nenshi would never want to see duplicated ever again in the history of this city. It's layout was designed to squeeze out the absolute most revenue for the developer and so poorly planned that Qualico had to have bribed someone at city hall to allow it to be built that way.
More detail:
- If it's even possible the homes are even more cookie-cutter than pretty much any other new suburb community
- There's way too many 'starter homes' that all are the exact same design and maybe in 3-4 different colors
- The streets are excessively narrow to squeeze-in more lots
- It's on an open plain where snow drifts are sometimes so big in the winter that it becomes an issue getting in and out more so than any other community I've lived in
- One two-lane access road (granted it's being expanded to 4 lanes, but still 1 s#$%y road in for that many people!)
- 3.5 km walk or run to any commercial development (I've actually measured this using the a run app on my iphone when I ran over there)
- The homes are poorly constructed (Even by today's particleboard standards)
- The 'parks' are either storm dry ponds sewers, High voltage powerline right of ways, or so poorly taken care of that the shale at the baseball diamond remains in piles for years with weeds growing over them