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Originally Posted by Corral
I've resided here all my life and am as big a fan of Calgary as the next person, but you clearly have not travelled much of the world if this is your opinion.
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For outdoor activities where is better. Just this weekend out hiking at met a guy from New York who said the next 2 miles are the most beautiful place on Earth. He was in awe that this place existed. Just blown away of how lucky we were to live here. It was maybe top 10 in Banff.
We blow the Sierras, Alps, US Rockies out of the water. Equal to the Andes but with much better employment and living conditions. I have not been to the Hemalayas and they are probably nicer but I'd rather live here. Mountain wise we actually have them unlike Vancouver and outside of the drive to Whistler you don't really have good winter options.
For Ski hills our terrain blows Europe out of the water. (They have more crappier hills with a few standouts).
So what city is better for outdoor activities. I think the only comparables would be in Australia which I have not been but then it would be ocean vs mountains and summer vs winter for which you like better.
As for Calgary being a stop over city to the mountains that is what makes it objectively better than Edmonton. The sweatpants and ugly people can be debated but where each is located definitively separates them