Nicest/Worst Places In Alberta

[fredr123]

Originally Posted by keratosis

arm pits...
Taber
Vauxhaul
Bow Island/Grassy Lake

nice
Calgary
Okotoks
Banff

How can you lump Bow Island and Grassy Lake together like that? Burdett will feel left out!

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by PyramidsofMars

but you gotta love when a second-generation Norwegian-Canadian or something rants about immgrunts TAKING OUR JAAABS!

Holy fata, do you know the same Norwegian-Canadian that I do? Because the fat Norwegian-Canadian alcoholic ###### I know complains about this.

[FlamesAddiction]

I really like the country around Milk River.

[Mightyfire89]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

I think Edmonton is #1 for Ugly. I live here and it's dreadful.

Alright, what's happened to Oilkiller? In the past, there's no way he would have let a comment like this go. Now, we're over a hundred posts in and no whinging from the great defender of perogyville? It's akin to a thread stating that Bell is the best company in Canada with no replies from him. It's unnatural.

What's going on, man?

[Deegee]

Originally Posted by NBC

In terms of physically ugly places (towns) I'm surprised no one has mentioned Slave Lake, High Prairie, Oyen, Edson, Whitecourt, Hanna and my personal least favourite town - Drumheller. The area around Drum is OK but the town is an absolute pit - a real shambles.

If this thread was started to pinpoint the worst cities/towns in Alberta in terms of physical unattractiveness, then to narrow it down to just 3 is a very difficult task. In my experience there are many ugly, ugly towns in AB - more than nice ones. And the best AB has to offer (like many places) lies not in urban areas but in rural/outdoor settings. For what it's worth

Frankly I think Drumheller is the worst town I've ever stepped foot into, and I live in another "ugly place" in Hanna.


The only place that gives me simular feelings that I get when I go into Drum is Edmonton.

My list based on visuals alone goes like this:

Best:

Calgary (for a City it's quite nice)
Olds
Banff

Worst:

Drumheller
Edmonton
Drumheller again

[Stranger]

I think we are just luck to be living anywhere in Alberta. And to say one town is better than the next is just more of what your used too. I grew up on a farm near a small town and wouldn't trade those years growing up in small town Alberta for anything. I've lived in the city and though it has many advantages over smaller towns, it also causes many problems too. The same can be said about smaller towns. It all comes down to what your looking for, and where you are comfortable.

[bradster57]

Originally Posted by fredr123

How can you lump Bow Island and Grassy Lake together like that? Burdett will feel left out!

Grassy Lake & Bow Island... I believe even the people who painted the elevators got them mixed up back in the day. Grassy Lake turned into Bow Island and Bow Island turned into Grassy Lake!

[jammies]

Drumheller is great. It's in a canyon with a river and hoodoos, what's not to like?

[browna]

1) Anything south of Calgary and west of Highway 22 - Views, a quick day hike in Bragg Creek or camping in Crowsnest or Kananaskis.

2)Banff/Lake Louise - Never get sick of going out there in all seasons.

3)Calgary besides the obvious nice park areas in all parts of the city, being able to see and be in the above 2 places in 30-90 minutes.

Bleh:
1)Taber - Residents not civilized enough to live in Lethbridge or Medicine Hat, not hardworking enough to live and hold a job down in Brooks.

2)Hanna to Alsask "corridor" - Maybe its the annual summer trips we did as kids out to see relatives east of Saskatoon in the heat of summer, but when my brother and I were counting the KM's until Kindersley, you know its a bad area.

3)Edmonton - Too many trips up there don't help, but area north of Wetaskiwin turnoff feel industrial all the way through into the city, now with South Edmonton Common. Then the turnoff to Whitemud to go to WEM West, or Argyl Road east and head towards refinery row through industrial parks. Go straight towards downtown and go through more industrial zone until you hit Whyte. A small stretch of nice river valley then a downtown that's even less vibrant then Calgary's. Head east out of downtown and more industrial until you hit the arena or Commenwealth, with refinery row again as the backdrop. Go west out of downtown and you either run into the WEM, or north and west and hit the airport area which is basically the bus station and hangout for the convicts working up in Northen Alberta and points further north who have thier 2 weeks off after working for 4 straight.

If you can make it to St. Albert or out to Spruce Grove you escape some of that dreariness I guess.

Edit: #1 crap hole by far would be the T&C at 52nd St, a place unfortunately I visited for a few hours a decade ago. I've tried to block it from my memory, but the memories I have of it, its patrons, and its activities, I still can't believe I was still in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, or the Western Hemisphere for that matter.

[Capitalcityflamefan]

Call me crazy but I actually like Edmonton. Smaller than Calgary, but well laid out downtown skyline. Really nice river valley, sooo many trees and mountain biking paths. A lot greener than Calgary for sure. Even though I hate the Oilers this is my hometown. I use to live in Calgary for 3 years, a lot of it is a suburban eye soar on the bald brown foot hills. Edmonton also has more culture and soul, also tonnes of treed neighbourhoods. I know all you Calgarians are going to #### on me now but I will always stick up for Edmonton. It gets a lot of undeserved bashing.

Screw the Oilers though. Hall,Eberle,Pjarrvi,Hopkins are a joke.

[burn_this_city]

After spending some time nearby, I'm going to have to say Conklin takes the cake as the biggest dump.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Capitalcityflamefan

Call me crazy but I actually like Edmonton. Smaller than Calgary, but well laid out downtown skyline. Really nice river valley, sooo many trees and mountain biking paths. A lot greener than Calgary for sure. Even though I hate the Oilers this is my hometown. I use to live in Calgary for 3 years, a lot of it is a suburban eye soar on the bald brown foot hills. Edmonton also has more culture and soul, also tonnes of treed neighbourhoods. I know all you Calgarians are going to #### on me now but I will always stick up for Edmonton. It gets a lot of undeserved bashing.

Screw the Oilers though. Hall,Eberle,Pjarrvi,Hopkins are a joke.

Depends where in Edmonton you're talking. Yes the river valley area is very nice, man I'd kill to live in one of those apartments overlooking it. The deep south (besides gang bangin Mill Woods of course) is nice too, I actually feel like I'm in Calgary when I'm down there.

There's some shaaady areas in that city though, more than you'd find in Calgary. Most of the North side is brutal, especially the NE. The West End is pretty shady too, especially around West Ed Mall. And if culture & soul means lots of Whyte Ave hippies, than yes, you're right.

And to a previous post, how can you say Drumheller's ugly?? "Downtown" maybe, but the natural environment is unbelieveable! It's got cactus and scorpions in Alberta, what's not to love?

[Tiger]

worst... Coronation/Consort area.

[hmmhmmcamo]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Krack Korn

Alright, what's happened to Oilkiller? In the past, there's no way he would have let a comment like this go. Now, we're over a hundred posts in and no whinging from the great defender of perogyville? It's akin to a thread stating that Bell is the best company in Canada with no replies from him. It's unnatural.

What's going on, man?

He's probably been watching VANFLAMESFAN trying to defend Vancouver and now realizes that the battle will always be lost, regardless of how good an argument he makes.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Capitalcityflamefan

Call me crazy but I actually like Edmonton. Smaller than Calgary, but well laid out downtown skyline. Really nice river valley, sooo many trees and mountain biking paths. A lot greener than Calgary for sure. Even though I hate the Oilers this is my hometown. I use to live in Calgary for 3 years, a lot of it is a suburban eye soar on the bald brown foot hills. Edmonton also has more culture and soul, also tonnes of treed neighbourhoods. I know all you Calgarians are going to #### on me now but I will always stick up for Edmonton. It gets a lot of undeserved bashing.

Screw the Oilers though. Hall,Eberle,Pjarrvi,Hopkins are a joke.

Good post, except for the Oilers part. Edmonton is great in the summer when there is so much going on, but lousy in the winter like all of Alberta. The best thing about any Alberta city is the river valley. Edmonton is a blue-collar town, which I appreciate, with terrific culture. I love Alberta. It's dynamic and a province of doers.

[Mr.Coffee]

I've been to pretty much every town south of Red Deer and a few north of it too, so I don't have the total exposure to northern AB I'd like to but...

Crowsnest Pass is awesome
Banff / Lake Louise is awesome
I do truly love Calgary
Blackfalds was a nice place
I like Red Deer too actually
I'd say High Level was nicer than I thought it would be

I had bad experiences in
Stavely..... was yelled at by several people for doing my job
Oyen wasn't so great
Brooks- have to join the crowd here (but it isn't the immigrants it's the smell)
I was almost raped in Olds
Granum was horrible
Vulcan...

[shermanator]

I've always been enamoured with Rosebud, sprawling metropolis of 80.

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by fotze

Brooks is nasty, I can't believe the government allows all those companies to flare all that sour gas causing that smell.

Bonnyville is pretty blech

haha.. I was referring to the meat packing plant. Olds has a similar issue with smell sometimes (not a meat packing plant though)

[Cowperson]

I was driving up to Vermillion one time and, near Viking, couldn't help but mutter, "I can't believe I'm in Alberta. What a craphole. Half the trees are dead and the other half are trying to be dead."

Yuck.

Agree about Brooks. What a craphole.

I was riding my bicycle back up from the USA one time and on one fine, pristine, sunny, Sunday morning, with not a single person in sight, I was chased from one end of Warner to the other side by a pack of dogs that were serious in intent. I've never been back. What a craphole!!!

Every other place in Alberta has its peculiarities but is generally great. Even Mossleigh. Well, maybe not High Prairie.

Cowperson

[Sainters7]

Surprised Lloydminster hasn't come up yet. I did a practicum there for a month, and pretty much everyone I worked with there was dying to get out there.