[JohnnyB]

I'll preface this with being nothing but personal opinion. Attack it if you want, it's just my feelings based upon having lived my life in the city and now making regular but spaced out returns. It's just what I feel is changing each time I come back.

I'm born and raised Calgarian too, and have always loved Calgary and had a strong feeling of affinity with Calgarian culture. On the other hand, I'm happy I'm not living there now. I think Calgary has long been a blue-collar city, one with plenty of jobs, but with the vast majority being lower end. Calgary is a working class city where most of the higher education lies in engineering and there is not a whole lot of culture supported by Calgarians.
The thing is that now everyone is making a tonne of money in Calgary, and many of the masses of people in lower end jobs that have populated Calgary, as well as those coming to Calgary in order to move up from those jobs, now have money and opportunities being planted in their laps just because of a booming economy and work shortages that are driving the job market wild.
Everyone in Calgary has money now, but those with culture are still few and far between. Many of those without culture are now becoming arrogant and self-interested because of money and opportunities that allow that behaviour for the first time in many peoples lives. There are a lot more small minded people that are in a financial position to have others listen to them now, and are acting like self-important jerks now that they've got it. It's too bad.

This probably sounds really really elitist, but it's how I feel each time I'm back recently.