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Originally Posted by Bunk
Here's how I would characterize "downtown" living in Calgary. Not precise.
Green is the best areas - well built up, very liveable.
Yellow is slightly less desirable to live - either because it's underdeveloped as with the case with places like 10th/11th Ave or along 14th Street in Beltline or does not actually have a lot of living opportunities - like the commercial core. Other areas like East Village are currently underdeveloped but have a lot of potential in the near future and are actively being redeveloped.
Red are the areas the typical person my consider a bit "sketchy" due to some of the activity on the street such as drug dealing, concentrations of the homeless (although they're still generally very safe in any event).
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It's all green man. Go to Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, heck even Edmonton and then you will see sketchy areas. The weather stinks in Calgary but we are pretty spoiled by how safe the entire city is overall. There's not a street in this city that I would be really scared to walk at night by myself.