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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Look I don't want this to turn into a suburb v downtown thread, (cuz really Peter12 is doing some good work in here), but they aren't all the same.
My suburb has lots of different pubs for example, smaller non-chain ones and large chain ones.
We have high end steak house and independently owned higher end restaurants.
We also have some culture diversity, Japansese/Chinese/Viennese, Southeast Asian places to name but a few.
We have a couple of great breakfast places as well.
I can tell you that I have really "tied one on" a number of times in my suburb, hell there is nothing better on a nice warm afternoon than doing a pub crawl in my suburb, good patios and good food/booze.
Picking up girls I can't speak to, but in my neighbourhood there are a large number of multi story condos and if my leering at the pub has taught me anything there are lots of lovely attractive young ladies in my 'hood.
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You have a good Viennese restaurant in Auburn Bay? I'm impressed!
I am more of an inner city guy myself, but I lived in the Beltline for years and years and it was good enough for me.
Vancouver is great if you can live between Alma and Victoria and the water and 30th Ave. Otherwise, the suburbs here are just as dry, boring, and depressing as they are in Calgary. Worse even, because most of the houses are forty years old and there are no sidewalks in the further out suburbs.
People love to trash Calgary car culture, but the same damn thing exists in the Lower Mainland. I need a car to get to North Van, Richmond, both of the ferries, any of the ski hills, etc...