Nicest/Worst Places In Alberta

[Hevishot]

3 Nicest:
Porcupine Hills
Livingstone
Waterton

3 Worst:
Conklin/Janvier
Castor/Stettler area
Hobbema

[FlameFanStuckinEDM]

3 Nicest:
Milk River
Calgary
Banff

3 Worst:
Warner
Coutts
Raymond

[fredr123]

Originally Posted by flamefanstuckinedm

3 nicest:
Milk river
calgary
banff

3 worst:
Warner
coutts
raymond

lol

[valo403]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

When it comes to a medium-sized city like Calgary I tend to agree with you. When the biggest cities I had ever lived in were Calgary and Vancouver I really started thinking that living in the city was pretty crappy compared to living in a small town. I figured that I was going to go the way of the small town. Of course I then ended up moving to Shanghai and in the midst of that 22 million people and crazy metropolis I realized that it's just the middle cities that are kind of boring. Not far enough to either extreme. Not getting the straight-up nature and enjoyable pace of the small towns, but not getting the vibrance and excitement of the metropolis.

I honestly have very little interest in returning to Calgary now. I lived there until I was 18, and even after going to university in Vancouver I still considered it home until maybe 21, but it holds virtually nothing of interest for me now. On the other hand, I would definitely consider moving to somewhere in Alberta that is much smaller and nicer than Calgary for a while, such as Banff or Canmore.

I'd have to agree with that. I grew up in Calgary and lived there through my early 20's, but having lived in a mixture of small college towns and massive cities for the last 5 years I don't think I'd really be up for moving back into the city of Calgary. I'd definitely move back to the area, but I'd likely be setting up shop outside of the city, there's just not enough of a draw from the actual city for me, it's more about the region around it.

[username]

Nicest:
1 - Lake Louise
2 - Banff
3 - Crownest Pass

Worst:
1 - Deadmonton
2 - Fort Mac
3 - Brooks

How is it that no one has said Lake Louise yet????

[FlamingHomer]

Originally Posted by Hevishot

3 Nicest:
Porcupine Hills
Livingstone
Waterton

3 Worst:
Conklin/Janvier
Castor/Stettler area
Hobbema

Finally a vote for Waterton. I guess no one else has been there.

[surferguy]

Provost is the worst place on Earth. I despise that town

[Resolute 14]

Specifically excluding Calgary and Edmonton, since both are cliche:

nicest:
1. Banff National Park, excluding the tourist trap
2. Waterton
3. Jasper/Hinton area

Nastiest
1. Lac La Biche
2. Valleyview
3. Brooks

[Gundo]

Best:
Banff
Japser/Hinton Area
Gande Cache

Worst:
Brooks
Camrose
Fox Creek

[troutman]

Outside of Calgary:

1. Millarville
2. Cataract Creek/ Livingstone River
3. Canmore
4. Drumheller

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

I really like San Franciso + surrounding. I used to hate Vancouver (cloudy/depressing) but went there for the Olympics and the weather was amazing!!! If it were like that all winter, I'd move there in a heart beat.

Best: San Francisco, Calgary (I really like it there... not too big, not too small), Cuba (Not to live but for vacation).

Worst: Edmonton, Buffalo, Abbotsford (spent my summer there)

When did San Fran and Cuba move to Alberta?

[wooohooo]

Originally Posted by blackgold

Either, you misread the thread title, or your knowledge of geography is awful.

Whooopps. I just re-read the title now. Forgive me it was at 3 am!

[Berger_4_]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola

A nice, perhaps not the nicest, area of the bald-ass prairie.

Nice place to visit...

Bahahaha, Forestburg.

Camrose isn't a terrible place...while it isn't a bustling metropolis like Red Deer or Edmonton, it's no Hobbema or Wetaskiwin either, that's for sure. That being said, if I were to live in a city, I'd pick Calgary over the Rose any day.

Provost is pretty bad, what with the cross burning, and the fact that you're an hour and a half drive to anywhere else in the world.

In general, I think Mad Mel and jayems have it figured out best...why live in the city when you're just looking to get out of it when the weekend hits? Why not live where your friends can rip over to your place on a Saturday night and convince you to go skidooing? And by skidooing I mean riding over to other friend's place, getting a bottle or two and just sitting in a drainage ditch talking for 3 hours? Oh, and I've still got my beast of a motorbike...72cc's of pure unadulterated muscle!

[Regulator75]

Best.
Waterton / Crowsnest Pass
Kananaskis
Jasper / Icefields Parkway.

Worst.
Leduc
Ponoka
Brockett

[Bunk]

I find the areas SW of Calgary stunningly beautiful. Around Priddis and heading into Kananaskis. The ugliest would have to be Fort Mac and surroundings, no?

[Cowperson]

Worst . . .

I just really disliked driving around the Viking/Vermillion area. It looked like half the trees were dead scarecrows, even in summer.

Brooks - I've given it 25 years to perk up and it hasn't happened.

Fort McMurray - like a lot of northern boom/bust towns, it's demographically very young . . . . . a place to get your start in life. Then you leave because everywhere else is so much better. Grande Prairie less so but something similar.

Best . . . .

It's been a while since I've been there, but standing up on that big hill with the Twelve Foot Davis monument overlooking Peace River is pretty awesome . . . . . so is rafting down The Mighty Peace. Also a boom/bust town but has a certain adventurous loveliness overcoming the harshness. Grimshaw, just down the road but without the river, is a real hole in contrast.

http://www.rowingtours.com/1rowtours...ot%20Davis.jpg

Kananaskis Country, below -



Lastly, mindless walking on the prairie . . . . . . anywhere but especially here, along Chain Lakes.



Cowperson

[HotHotHeat]

VS.

[Buff]

The best is Waterton, Jasper, Banff... well anywhere in the mountains is good. The worst is all found in the south eastern part of the province. Right around Medicine Hat.

[burn_this_city]

Best
Drumheller
Lake Louise
Waterton

Worst
Manning
Hobbema
Blackie

[habernac]

Fort McMurray gets a lot of flack. It's actually a really nice spot. 3 rivers converge there, lots of great wilderness and lakes. But when you factor in the bugs in the summer, the cold winters, being in the middle of nowhere and the general lack of infrastructure....