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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
In a Hockey News poll of NHL players from about five years ago, Calgary ranked 19th in cities players would want to live in. And this was when the Flames were a perennial playoff team.
And again, the experience and preferences of middle-class people are irrelevant to the topic. I remember back when a bunch of NHL players lived in Oakridge. The notion of an NHLer today living in a neighbourhood like Oakridge is comical.
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This type of thing is so personal and age dependent that I think large, non-stratified surveys provide little info.
If you want the city to have some cultural and historical flavour, then the rankings could put Phoenix and Anaheim at the bottom, but if you value weather and golf it can flip back.
If you're a middle-of-the-pack NHL veteran with a modest NHL salary and a couple of children of elementary school age, NYC isn't the most inviting location for your uprooted family... you might be eyeing Raleigh, NC. But if you're 24, single, and bringing in 4-6 million, then you're wondering how fast you can get on a plane from Raleigh to NYC.
Edmonton still sucks. But for the rest of the cities, I think it's a very fluid situation.