Murray Edwards Changes Residency from Calgary to London

[T@T]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Seriously, if I had 2 billion I'd be back in London in a heartbeat, art, culture, food just living in a proper effing city.
I love Canada and Vancouver but this isn't a city it's a provincial town, there is no comparison to a London or Tokyo

If I had 2 billion I'd buy an Island, create my own country and pay taxes to me!

[darklord700]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Seriously, if I had 2 billion I'd be back in London in a heartbeat, art, culture, food just living in a proper effing city.
I love Canada and Vancouver but this isn't a city it's a provincial town, there is no comparison to a London or Tokyo

I will add New York (Manhattan), Paris and Hawaii (if you prefer island life) to the conversation. Calgary is good for the average people to raise a family and is better than 95% of the places on earth. But if you are the 0.00001% people, there are better options.

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Seriously, if I had 2 billion I'd be back in London in a heartbeat, art, culture, food just living in a proper effing city.
I love Canada and Vancouver but this isn't a city it's a provincial town, there is no comparison to a London or Tokyo

Wow I guess we'll count our lucky stars you came here from that Utopia.

[sun]

Today, I walked five minutes from my front door and into a private tour of an art collection frequently lent out to The Tate, Beaubourg, Guggenheim, MOMA, etc.

Have you been to the recent exhibit yet, afc? What did you think of that Baldessari? Not bad for a podunk, provincial town.

Putting Vancouver and Calgary aside, Paris is better than London anyways.

[Jagger]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Seriously, if I had 2 billion I'd be back in London in a heartbeat, art, culture, food just living in a proper effing city.
I love Canada and Vancouver but this isn't a city it's a provincial town, there is no comparison to a London or Tokyo

Not me. I can honestly say that I don't like London much. It's too busy, too dirty, and too smelly.

I'm from the UK and I love Canada too. Difference is, if I had 2 billion, I'm staying in the place I love. I.e. Here.
The Rockies beat London any day for me. The west coast beats London too. Totally overrated place imo.

I actually think Vancouver's a pretty cool city too. Hate the hockey team but the city's pretty good.

Edit: favourite BIG city for me is Paris by a county mile. I still wouldn't live there full time though.

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Seriously, if I had 2 billion I'd be back in London in a heartbeat, art, culture, food just living in a proper effing city.
I love Canada and Vancouver but this isn't a city it's a provincial town, there is no comparison to a London or Tokyo

I'm sorry you think one of our country's best cities sucks so much.

I'm surprised you just dont go back to the U.K since it isn't up to your standards. I'm sure there is some other person outside of Canada that would be willing to take your place that would actually fully appreciate the cultre here.

You really sound ungrateful.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by combustiblefuel

I'm sorry you think one of our country's best cities sucks so much.

I'm surprised you just dont go back to the U.K since it isn't up to your standards. I'm sure there is some other person outside of Canada that would be willing to take your place that would actually fully appreciate the cultre here.

You really sound ungrateful.

I'm not in the least ungrateful, there's no better place in the world for an average joe like me to live in, but if you have two billion dollars you have options most of us don't and life in one of the three or four major cultural centres of the world is a whole different ballgame.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Wow I guess we'll count our lucky stars you came here from that Utopia.

It's not a Utopia on 25 bucks an hour!

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by sun

Today, I walked five minutes from my front door and into a private tour of an art collection frequently lent out to The Tate, Beaubourg, Guggenheim, MOMA, etc.

Have you been to the recent exhibit yet, afc? What did you think of that Baldessari? Not bad for a podunk, provincial town.

Putting Vancouver and Calgary aside, Paris is better than London anyways.

I haven't had time to hit the VAG recently, I'm not a huge fan of conceptual post modern to be frank.

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I'm not in the least ungrateful, there's no better place in the world for an average joe like me to live in, but if you have two billion dollars you have options most of us don't and life in one of the three or four major cultural centres of the world is a whole different ballgame.

That's not how you framed your reponse at all. I think your back pedaling my good sir. You actually really threw a qood insult out there and are trying damage control now.

I do beleive you that you actually do like Vancouver but you also just called it a uncultured #### hole compared to your home country.


I do understand it is two different cultures but you could have been a little more tactful in your reply. You were pretty callous with your words. Vancouver is a very vibrant city with many world class cultural events to explore that can match up with many other forign cities.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by combustiblefuel

That's not how you framed your reponse at all. I think your back pedaling my good sir. You actually really threw a qood insult out there and are trying damage control now.

I do beleive you that you actually do like Vancouver but you also just called it a uncultured #### hole compared to your home country.


I do understand it is two different cultures but you could have been a little more tactful in your reply. You were pretty callous with your words. Vancouver is a very vibrant city with many world class cultural events to explore that can match up with many other forign cities.

I love vancouver but the last thing you could call it is a hot bed of culture.

It's a beautiful city with a good food scene, not world class but possibly the best value for money anywhere (food that is).

And I don't have to tactful about my own city, it's been my home for thirty years, it has good points and bad.

[CliffFletcher]

afc has it right. Are there any megarich in Alberta who didn't grow up or run a business here? This is a great city to raise a family if you're middle class or a comfortable professional. But for people with tens or hundreds of millions who can live anywhere on the planet? What's the unique draw - the mountains? Then you live in Switzerland. Maybe Colorado or Whistler. All have a far better climate then Alberta.

[Rubicant]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I haven't had time to hit the VAG recently, I'm not a huge fan of conceptual post modern to be frank.

Thoughts and prayers....

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by 4X4

It's just so pathetic to read people who think that just because someone has money, they either owe it to the greater good, or else they are greedy a-holes.

There are perfectly rational and legitimate reasons to be concerned about the growing concentration of wealthy and widening inequality in the world. Eventually, stark inequalities lead to the breakdown of public trust and order. You reach a critical mass of people who have no investment in the common good, and are happy to cheat the system and one another, or simply use force to take what they want. Then you get ghettos, burning cars, no-go zones for police, and whole regions of the countryside succumbing to drug addiction and squalor.

While the rich can try to shield themselves behind gated communities, private schools and the like, it can become onerous to have to maintain bodyguards watching over your children day and night so they aren't kidnapped. And if you require secure and skilled workers to generate your wealth, you'll have a lot more trouble finding those in an insecure, unequal and predatory society than in a secure and egalitarian one. The Murray Edwards of Canada built their business empires on a foundation of skilled workers educated and kept healthy and secure at the public expense. I'd like to see how he would have made out building an oil company in Nigeria or Ecuador.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

What's the unique draw - the mountains? Then you live in Switzerland. Maybe Colorado or Whistler. All have a far better climate then Alberta.

Switzerland, yes. Austria, absolutely. Colorado, hahaha no. Whistler? Good lord man, have you spent significant time there? It's soul-sucking.

[cam_wmh]

Agreed, Colorado has pedestrian ski hills.

Not liking Whistler is on you. Everything about it is epic. Don't like it on the busy weekends? State out of the alpine and get downlow in the trees.

The culture is an amplified Banff, there's people of all types. Pricey? You bet. But there's ways around it.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Switzerland, yes. Austria, absolutely. Colorado, hahaha no. Whistler? Good lord man, have you spent significant time there? It's soul-sucking.

Pretty sure more jet-setting elites have vacation properties in Vail than in Canmore.

We're not talking about cities or states that are nice for upper-middle-class families to live in. Places where you can earn a good wage and have a nice standard of living. We're talking about global elites. The mega-rich. People who don't need to work. People who can live anywhere, and who have residences on multiple continents. The notion that Calgary is even on the radar of those people is ridiculous. The only mega-rich in this city are people who have businesses based here. People who have earned tens of millions in Mexican telecoms, the London financial markets, or Silicon valley are not pulling up stakes to move to Calgary.

[sun]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I haven't had time to hit the VAG recently, I'm not a huge fan of conceptual post modern to be frank.

Not the VAG, the Rennie Collection.

[calgaryblood]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I'm not in the least ungrateful, there's no better place in the world for an average joe like me to live in, but if you have two billion dollars you have options most of us don't and life in one of the three or four major cultural centres of the world is a whole different ballgame.

Are you telling me you can't afford to live in London but can afford to live in Vancouver? You don't need $2 billion to live anywhere you want. If you want to live in UK and assuming you can travel back then do it...

[heep223]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

afc has it right. Are there any megarich in Alberta who didn't grow up or run a business here? This is a great city to raise a family if you're middle class or a comfortable professional. But for people with tens or hundreds of millions who can live anywhere on the planet? What's the unique draw - the mountains? Then you live in Switzerland. Maybe Colorado or Whistler. All have a far better climate then Alberta.

Family, friends, community. If your entire network is in Calgary, including your kids, grand kids etc., and you can travel anywhere in the world whenever you want, I could see wanting to stay no matter how wealthy.