Food aside, you can't just take personal experience and opinion as representative of opinion of the general public as a whole.
For example, I love Calgary and would never want to live in a big metropolis like Chicago or LA, but the majority of my friends and family would. Hockey players are the same. I'm sure there are guys that love it here and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Lanny has made Calgary his home. Backs looks like he's going to be here forever. But the vast majority of NHLers would rather play elsewhere. To argue otherwise by pointing personal experience is foolish. Even using pseudo-stats like best rated restaurants in Canada is a bit of a red herring. What really matters at the end of the day is public opinion on a large scale. What do all NHLers think as a whole? The answer is obvious. We're always pretty high up on no-trade lists.
Also this speaks for itself, but if Calgary is as attractive to live in as Chicago, we'd have as big of a population as them from people wanting to live here. Calgary is growing fast - a combination if affordability, employment opportunity, nature, diversity - has made it more and more attractive. But we are not there yet when compared to the big metropolises. Not close.
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