[Ford Prefect]

I lived in Calgary for 20 years, and fled about six years ago, partly to escape the maniacal drivers. An incident about two weeks before we moved involving my wife epitomized the problem. She had an encounter with a guy in a truck who cut her off much like the lady in the mini van cut off ericshand. She also honked her horn to alert him. At the next set of lights he stopped beside her and starts yelling f-bomb laced obscenties at her and telling her to get off the f'ing road. Nice, especially with our then six-year-old son in the vehicle with my wife. In Drumheller, where we moved to, this incident would never occur. It's not because Drumhellians are nicer people or anything. It has more to do with personal accountability. In a small town like Drum, if you act like a complete jerkoff, people know who you are and word gets around. In Calgary, anonimity removes the neccessity for people to be accountable for their behaviour. If you act like a jerkoff in public, so what. The odds of anybody knowing who you are are pretty slim. Calgary is great city, as far as cities go. It's not necessarily the best place to live though.