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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
My folks started complaining about the way the city was being run a week ago. I asked where else they would find an Economist 10 top city in the world with low taxes, excellent services, very little gridlock, and clean well managed facilities? Crickets.
Property taxes in Calgary are dirt cheap, sorry it clashes with your reality, but its true. The city is well managed, essentially free of real corruption and the government is responsive to the citizens.
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Amen. Our scandal was ass-wad Joe having tax payers pay for his escorts drinks and sole silly art installations.
There’s an awful lot that this City can do better. But it’s also pretty remarkable. I’m one of the few who didn’t move out here for work, I moved here because I liked the City. Taxes here ARE low, and it doesn’t matter how many times people want to drop “blood from a stone”, “we’re taxed to death”, or any other ridiculous statement.
If you want to compare quality of life indexes to tax rate, Calgary is right ####ing there on the podium. This City faces real issues indeed. But #### the next person I see yell about taxes while he drives his 60k truck around town.