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Originally Posted by nickerjones
No offense taken, she has lived there since the early 80's. BTW, the guy who bought the place was white, from Calgary, seemed to be pretty affluent. He said he was going to live full time in the house. Her mom (my grandmother-in-law) listed her house just south of 17th AVE from my mother in laws place in forest lawn. It sold in a week for 419k ( it was listed at 429). I am pretty sure she said she bought the place in 1961 for 12k. That one was a rental as the guy already had $2700 month worth of tenants lined up on closing day
As far as forest lawn, I never found it to be that bad. The location is pretty nice as far as getting to things. I mean it's close to downtown, just a quick zip up memorial. I always thought if the hipsters decided to start moving in, tearing things down, and building infill's it would be nice place due to it's proximity to places like downtown. The only bad part is it's older, a bit run down, and has a lot of renters. I would assume a lot of Calgarians would say a lot of immigrants too but I don't think that's a bad thing as I myself am an immigrant. As far as being "hood"... I guess it's relative. Where I'm from the "hood" is a place you don't want to be after the sun has went down because you're afraid you're going to be shot. I have never felt unsafe at any time in Forest Lawn.
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You're absolutely correct. Calgary is a very safe and wealthy city. However, Forrest Lawn has a few bad things going against it.
First is Deerfoot trail. Deerfoot is such a physical and psychological barrier in Calgary. Anything east of Deerfoot is discounted. Even though Forrest Lawn is relatively close in distance to downtown, Deerfoot plays a big part of that disconnect.
Second is demographics. The median income of Forrest lawn is half that of the city of Calgary and about 40% of those living in Forrest Lawn don't even have a HS diploma(according to the 2006 census). In this day and age that stat is almost unbelievable, especially when we live in a very highly educated city in one of the most-if not the most- educated countries in the world.
In biggish cities like Calgary, there will always be a area for the lower class, and in Calgary this is Forrest Lawn. I can't see this changing in my lifetime.