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Originally Posted by Cyclops
Have you driven down 17th Ave SE in the past......30 years? That's a dump. How about the C-train line downtown, that has some beauty to it as well. Having lived in Calgary for 30+ years and Edmonton for 5 I have a much different view than yours. Calgary looks good and it's location is great, mountains are right there. The sprawl is brutal, the commute is a joke and the Stampede is something that is much bigger in Calgarians heads than it actually is. The downtown skyline is great downtown with the vacant buildings and the location of it is laughable at best. How much have the floods cost so far? What has been done?
The traffic in Edmonton isn't even comparable to Calgary, it's night and day. They have an actual football stadium that can attract big concerts and major sporting events. The arts culture is way ahead of Calgary (not hard though as Calgary might have the weakest art culture in Canada). The river valley is an actual valley without any concern of disasters. Don't forget that with the closure of the airport that the skyline in Edmonton will be changed within the next 10 years as well.
Very good possibility of being a host city for the World Cup of Soccer in either 2022 or 2026, Calgary is unable to be a host city because they have a "stadium" that can seat 30,000 with a noise by-law that basically renders it useless.
But Edmonton sucks and Calgary rules huh.......
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17th ave SE? You mean Forest Lawn? Are you telling me that there are no less than desirable areas in Edmonton (I mean, besides Edmonton)?
Sprawl is brutal? Too many people moving here?
Vacant buildings and laughable location of DT? Around here, we keep our downtown in the middle of our city. I guess we could move it to Airdrie, so that the commute downtown would be shortened, but that's just not feasible, what with the sheer amount of tall buildings, including the tallest west of Toronto.
Those pesky floods, though. All one of them since Alberta was born. 2005 was not a flood like 2013, it was really high water that f'd a few basements along one of our blue water (not brown) rivers.
Of course the traffic in Edmonton isn't as bad. With all the GD potholes, and the traffic lights hanging from wires, people don't want to own cars. They'd rather collect UI to pay for their sweatpants.
I don't know if you're talking about some other soccer World Cup, but you're never hosting the World Cup. Never. Please tell me there's some other world cup you're purporting to be in the running for, because if you actually mean the World Cup, I just want to smack your forehead for you.
The Stampede, that we're "always making such of a big deal about", is known around the world. Certainly not by everyone, but by magnitudes more people than have ever heard of Klondike Days. While neither city is exactly NYC, I can tell you that Edmonton is known for only one thing. The ONLY thing that someone from another country would ever recognize your city for, is the Oilers. I'm not joking. That is it. Of course, the joke is on you because... the Oilers.