I grew up in the NE (Abbeydale) and I can tell you the 'anywhere but the NE' crowd usually is from the south side of the city. I actually liked growing up with people from all over the world and moved to deer run when my daughter was born. I couldn't stand deer run. The commute was a nightmare and it is so boring. It seems like 80% of people are caucasian and you can't find a good ethnic place to eat.
Now I live in Chestermere:
Pros:
Quiet
-Great place to raise a family and lots of people with kids
-Easy to get kids into school and they can actually go to a school close to home.
-Low crime rate
-Not many renters
-Great neighbors
-More restraunts opening up.
-Easy to access any part of the city with Stoney.
-15 minutes to a c-train station.
-No c-train going out there so no vagrants
-Great fire department and they will come out for block partys for the kids
-killer block parties
-Lots of outdoor hockey
-Good bike paths
-Not a lot of stray cats (I used to hear multiple cat fights every night when I lived in abbeydale)
-Good schools. My daughter is in elementary and they had Chinese food brought in for hot lunch today. Every Thursday they order something different for the kids.
-small town feel without being super far away from the city
Cons:
-No bus or c-train access if you don't drive
-Blue bins for recycling, green for compost but only 1 bag of garbage allowed per week. (I get the biggest size of bag and load it up though so no problem there)
-Sometimes get the farm smell during spring melt but it's not bad.
-Highway driving in the winter but they keep it pretty dry for the most part. Gets foggy though sometimes.
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