Calgary Tops for Weather Comfort

[evman150]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

After weather and all, Calgary is a way better city in Victoria. Was there for 3 days a couple years ago and couldn't wait to ferry my ass out of there and into Vancouver! haha

Well, certainly there are advantages to being triple the size, but what exactly rubbed you the wrong way about Victoria?

[Hemi-Cuda]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/sc...orld.html?_r=0

after reading about what the rest of the world has been dealing with for the past year, i'm feeling a lot better about our weather

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by evman150

Well, certainly there are advantages to being triple the size, but what exactly rubbed you the wrong way about Victoria?

Driving in and around that place drove me nuts.

[FLAME ENVY]

Originally Posted by zukes

Other than the amount of sun, Calgary has nothing on SW Ontario. I'll take the super humidity in the summer to not have snow on the ground on Labour Day. You can golf here from early to mid March to mid to late November. Last year was warmer than usual in the winter, but we only had 15 days when the high didn't reach 0, and only 5 where it didn't reach -5.

Living anywhere in Ontario - No Thanks.

[morgin]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Driving in and around that place drove me nuts.

There are a lot of genuine gripes about life in Victoria, but having lived there for 7 years and here for 5, I can call bull#### on driving being one of the unpleasant things. There is no genuine rush hour, the Pat Bay is well maintained, no real "core" means no one part of downtown is ever too gridlocked, and no trip is (unlike the airdrie/calgary joke) realistically ever more than about 20 minutes.

I'd take old pokey Victoria drivers over the insanity on the roads in Calgary (or Vancouver, which is the worst) any day.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Originally Posted by Dion

Food for thought...

We could all be living in Winnipeg and bemoaning the weather they have to endure

Screw you! I'm gonna be stuck in Winnipeg for 2 weeks starting Monday

[evman150]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Driving in and around that place drove me nuts.

I don't think that's a common complaint. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard that.

Maybe if you live or work in Langford...but that's not Victoria.

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by evman150

I don't think that's a common complaint. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard that.

Maybe if you live or work in Langford...but that's not Victoria.

Well if you don't know your way around, the streets constantly changing names can be a little confusing, but you get used to it.

To me Victoria 1. Retirees 2. Uni Kids

but the weather is good - way better than Vancouver

[jayswin]

Vancouver has beautiful weather, just ask Vanflamesfan.