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Originally Posted by 4X4
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.
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The west end of Stony Plains Road. That area is a ####hole, of epic proportions. I have a client with offices in that end of town. Sweet Jesus I feel like I need to contact S. Plissken Esq. to get in and out alive.
Klondike Days, do you mean K-Days, or Capital EX. The this is such a crap show they have to change the name to trick people into coming back.