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Originally Posted by Bunk
This list continues to be the most ridiculous one re: neighbourhood desirability.
For one, you'd expect based on the criteria that neighbourhoods with similar characteristics would be somewhat clustered on this list. Instead you have one neighbourhood that ranks high, and others very similar in most respects showing up nowhere. For instance Beltline and Lower Mount Royal - separated by 17th Avenue have almost identical characteristics. One ranks #9, one doesn't rank at all.
The "most pedestrian friendly" communities list is even more silly. Valley Ridge 5th - a community whereby you can walk to almost nothing.
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I would agree with that general sentiment. I think some neighbourhoods are on the list, simply because they are close to desireable neighborhoods. Houndsfield Heights? The desireability factor is that it is close to Hillhurst, which is close to Kensington. Strangely, Sunnyside seems kind of far down the list, which is weird.
But anyway, this reminds me of the Maclean's university rankings where, yearly, universities get butt-hurt if they're not regarded highly enough, discredit the entire ranking process, and pretend to not care about it until they actually crack the top 10 and then suddenly the ranking is something to be proud of.