Nova Scotia site slamming Calgary - Page 2 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Eddie Bronze · 03-24-2007, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

Or at least not until I retire.

As the saying goes...

Nova Scotia is a great place...to retire to.

brownie · 03-24-2007, 12:59 PM

I think this website is a waste of money.Everyone out here from NS knows what its like to live there.They can make as many websites as they want,there are still no JOBS.Sure its picked up a bit since I moved out here 7yrs ago.I would like to move back someday as all the family are there but not for 15 to 18 bucks an hour.

Eddie Bronze · 03-24-2007, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by RedHot25

Yup. Its an interesting place. Kind of a town that is starting to get up in size, but wants some of the city stuff while keeping everything at a town level. I think HRM is somewhere around 3 to 5 hundred thousand or so, but it really tries to operate like a town of a couple of thousand, I swear.

Double lanes of traffic throughout downtown, single lanes in some places, hardly any divided, and they claim Calgary has traffic problems.

Eddie Bronze · 03-24-2007, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by brownie

I think this website is a waste of money.Everyone out here from NS knows what its like to live there.They can make as many websites as they want,there are still no JOBS.Sure its picked up a bit since I moved out here 7yrs ago.I would like to move back someday as all the family are there but not for 15 to 18 bucks an hour.

I have a family member who is a lead hand on a landscape crew who makes around $15/hr. Here, he could start up his own company and make $100grand a year with his eyes closed.

RedHot25 · 03-24-2007, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

Double lanes of traffic throughout downtown, single lanes in some places, hardly any divided, and they claim Calgary has traffic problems.

Ha, yup

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The best is the Bedford highway, basically one lane each way. Absolute gridlock, especially when a farmer decides to get on the road during rush hour in a tractor

. Good times.

Well I hate to pick on all the bad things, but....transit here is hideous. Within the 1st week I got here, I had to phone the transit people to tell me what bus to take, where to go etc. Keep in mind I had been here less than a week, and there they were telling me that "well, sir it looks like you know more about the buses/transit than we do". And as for the actual bus system...wow. Its bad. So bad it makes Calgary's look like door to door service.

Ok I will stop now. As one good quality, they have a heck of a curbside recycling/compost program here. Everyone does it, it is fantastic...

Devils'Advocate · 03-24-2007, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by RedHot25

Ok I will stop now. As one good quality, they have a heck of a curbside recycling/compost program here. Everyone does it, it is fantastic...

Glad I was part of the "It's Not Garbage" co-allition (a co-allition of Halifax environmental groups all joining together to push HRM to push recycling/composting rather than incineration/bigger landfills). But as much as I give credit to the environmentalists for getting it started, it was all the Haligonians that bought into it and make it work that proves the concept for every municipality in Canada.

But you are dead on about the transit system. I lived in Sackville and went to university at St. Mary's. I spent more than 2.5 hours on the bus every day. Taking the 80 every day was absolute hell. Even being an environmentalist, I gave up and got my license.

keratosis · 03-24-2007, 03:47 PM

That is really quite funny.

MacDougalbry · 03-24-2007, 03:58 PM

At least the NS site is somewhat amusing, unlike this rather lame web site:

http://www.calgarysucks.com

JimmytheT · 03-24-2007, 04:08 PM

Ugh, my wife and I have a friend who is from Cape Breton, and the inferiority complex of Cape Brettoners/Nova Scotians can become very tiresome. However, he at least does not harbour any delusions about the state of the Nova Scotian economy and the total lack of work.
Some Nova Scotians have to realise, that some people want to work, and if there is no work for them at home, they will move to where they can find a job that pays well.

If Nova Scotia ever becomes a place of opportunity and people start moving there en masse, I won't snub my nose up a the province because of it. The Nova Scotian legislature might want to start by allowing all stores that want to be open on Sundays, to be open on Sundays.

JimmytheT · 03-24-2007, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by MacDougalbry

At least the NS site is somewhat amusing, unlike this rather lame web site:

http://www.calgarysucks.com

I love how much effort some put into criticizing Calgary, when they might do well to direct the microscope a their home province, which, in my opinion, has problems of its own. If they care about Nova Scotia so much, why not put efforts towards making Nova Scotia a better place to live, rather than dumping on some place YOU decided to move to, because YOU needed a job, just because it isn't where you are from originally.

Devils'Advocate · 03-24-2007, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmytheT

The Nova Scotian legislature might want to start by allowing all stores that want to be open on Sundays, to be open on Sundays.

Done and done. Sobeys and some of the other large stores went to the courts and had the law torn down. Everything is open on Sundays. Some churches were outside protesting the stores on Sunday, which I found amusing. They were marching around with signs on their "day of rest".

Superflyer · 03-24-2007, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MacDougalbry

At least the NS site is somewhat amusing, unlike this rather lame web site:

http://www.calgarysucks.com

They did such a crappy job on this site, on the links at the top there is only one that actually works.
I meen if you want to tell people how bad it is then tell us.

SpitFire40 · 03-24-2007, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MacDougalbry

At least the NS site is somewhat amusing, unlike this rather lame web site:

http://www.calgarysucks.com

I'm born and raised in Calgary and I think this person is dead on with alot of things...

I hate this growth..

edit: Perhaps not Dead on, but not completely out of whack.

shane_c · 03-24-2007, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by KevanGuy

Heh, I bet Shane is behind this!

Very funny.
As much as I hate this city and can't wait to leave I likely will never end up back there. It does have a lot of things going for it but at the same time they expect people to move back to no jobs. And the jobs that are there are mostly given to friends and family members. You would not believe how much this goes on.

HalifaxDrunk · 03-25-2007, 09:31 AM

Man, this thread cracks me up!

If you live here and don't like it, just get out for the "big bucks"! If you don't live here and don't like it, why even complain?

If I had to move again (lived in T.O. for 5 years), Calgary would be my city of choice, not just for $$$, I'm a die hard Flames fan, have family out there and just plain love the city. However, I prefer the lifestyle here, and would seriously miss the ocean, but that’s just me.

The guy/girl who made this satirical site was looking for a reaction...he/she got it!

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Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

The women here are better looking and the ones that aren't, at least can afford to get breast implants.

This post is useless without pictures.....

Flames in 07 · 03-25-2007, 10:01 AM

Well, the site was looking for more than a reaction.

Anyway, people are just saying why they don't like NS as a response to ... let's just say a biased ad.

I wonder if most countries are as fractured in terms of their disapproval for other regions of their own country. The only other country I've lived in is the US and they certainly don't have the regionalism we have. Any guesses why? Only thing I can think of is that transfer payments is a pretty good way to fracture up a country, but it's got to be more than that.

Cowperson · 03-26-2007, 08:18 AM

In the theme of the thread, this article with some tongue-in-cheek jabbing appeared in the weekend National Post, written by an Edmontonion:

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...8-bbcf36ff27b9

Cowperson

mykalberta · 03-26-2007, 09:24 AM

If there were opportunities there, they wouldnt move here most likely.

Althought Calary isnt that bad of a place to live, Mountains, US is close, yah the property value is expensive and inflation is high but thats what you get when you live in a BIG city.

Most Atlantic Canadians seem to genuinely love the "old country" and I am, sure if they could live half as comfortably as here, they wouldnt leave - just my opinion.

MYK

brownie · 03-26-2007, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by mykalberta

If there were opportunities there, they wouldnt move here most likely.

Althought Calary isnt that bad of a place to live, Mountains, US is close, yah the property value is expensive and inflation is high but thats what you get when you live in a BIG city.

Most Atlantic Canadians seem to genuinely love the "old country" and I am, sure if they could live half as comfortably as here, they wouldnt leave - just my opinion.

MYK

Cant argue with that MYK.I would like to move back,and do look for jobs on the websites every week,but there still isnt much there,for me anyways.They should be advertising for older people to move there and retire.And dont get me wrong I would definatly miss alot of what Calgary has to offer,but its soon time to go back home.

fanforever1986 · 03-26-2007, 02:34 PM

Mayor Bronco comments on the site:

http://www.am770chqr.com/news/news_x...news_local.cfm