Mckenzie Towne/New Brighton

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

I live in Elgin in McKenzie Towne. We havent smelled the dump since moving in last November, I know the smell from driving down 52nd street sometimes. To be honest its not that bad of a smell, its a musk similar to Edmonton. I love the neighbourhood, its clean and for the most part people are friendly. Having the deerfoot so close is great, you can get downtown in 15-20 minutes.

I'm in Elgin as well. I haven't smelled the dump either since moving here in 2008. If anything, I like that it's close, but not too close. I've had to use it a few times with all the renovations we've been doing.

The neighborhood is great. It has pretty much everything you'll need within walking distance or a short drive. It's great for young families.

Deerfoot keeps the city within reach. 15-20 minutes to downtown is during optimal times. You can usually add 5-10 minutes on that for traffic on Deerfoot and Memorial.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I agree. I grew up in Dalhousie and my wife grew up in Brentwood. No we rep the southside for realz.

The thing I find about the north (at least where I was) is you have a dalhousie, a brentwood, a crowfoot, a northland mall and a market mall. 5 areas of shopping spread out over about 25 km. In the south if you can be near a 130th or a shawnessy you are pretty much set, as both offer all the services of the north 5 in one giant package. I love that I'm close enough that I can walk to shawnessy and get anything I need. I figured the traffic would be a nightmare, but I've noticed no real difference. Yes my options are more limited in the south, but I also don't need to drive as much for the reason mentioned above.

[red sky]

Thanks so much everyone. Seems really positive thus far. I think if we moved out there that we wouldn't really leave on weekends as everything is close by.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Russic

The thing I find about the north (at least where I was) is you have a dalhousie, a brentwood, a crowfoot, a northland mall and a market mall. 5 areas of shopping spread out over about 25 km. In the south if you can be near a 130th or a shawnessy you are pretty much set, as both offer all the services of the north 5 in one giant package. I love that I'm close enough that I can walk to shawnessy and get anything I need. I figured the traffic would be a nightmare, but I've noticed no real difference. Yes my options are more limited in the south, but I also don't need to drive as much for the reason mentioned above.

Yep, that's the same with us. We put way less kms on our vehicles with how close everything is. Movie theaters, restaurants, shopping, grocery stores, road options (where we are, anyway)...the list goes on. We also walk to a variety of places now because of how close everything is versus the NW. I'm also in a lake community (Bonavista) and the lake adds quite a bit of quality to our leisure time.

I find the north to have way more construction right now (Country Hills Blvd in particular), but that's temporary and for the best long term.

[red sky]

Originally Posted by KTrain

I'm in Elgin as well. I haven't smelled the dump either since moving here in 2008. If anything, I like that it's close, but not too close. I've had to use it a few times with all the renovations we've been doing.

The neighborhood is great. It has pretty much everything you'll need within walking distance or a short drive. It's great for young families.

Deerfoot keeps the city within reach. 15-20 minutes to downtown is during optimal times. You can usually add 5-10 minutes on that for traffic on Deerfoot and Memorial.

I've been to your house

Bought your treadmill from you

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by red sky

I've been to your house

Bought your treadmill from you

I was going to bring that up, but not that you bought the treadmill. Keep everyone else guessing as to why you came over to my house.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by KTrain

I was going to bring that up, but not that you bought the treadmill. Keep everyone else guessing as to why you came over to my house.

Gay sex porn marathon?

[Jimmy Stang]

Threads like this remind me of how Calgary really is full of northies and southies. I was born and raised in the north and still live in the north. Anything south of Glenmore is like neverland to me.

And, of course, I know southies who could never imagine living in the north.

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang

Threads like this remind me of how Calgary really is full of northies and southies. I was born and raised in the north and still live in the north. Anything south of Glenmore is like neverland to me.

And, of course, I know southies who could never imagine living in the north.

That would be me. The north just seems all.... barren and... windy...

Buncha weirdos up there.

[Coys1882]

We moved to south in 2004 when we built our first house in Copperfield. In the 5 years we lived there I could smell the dump maybe 4 or 5 times and it was always outdoors never in the house. After a rain and a north wind was usually what would cause the smell to hit our area.

We live in Cranston now and we love it even more than the McKenzie Towne area. Brand new Sobeys - two elementary schools set to open in Sept. Lots of playgrounds and young families.

As for traffic - if you're at work for 7am, driving on Deerfoot at 6-6:30am is easy mode. 7:00am-7:30am you'll hit the bottleneck at Deerfoot/Anderson but if you exit off onto Southland after that it's empty. It takes me 20-30 minutes to get from Cranston to my office off MacLeod and 50th Avenue.

I'm sure the north is just as good in some of the new areas - but if your friends are all in the south you certainly won't be making a mistake by going south.

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by IliketoPuck

My cousin moved there after living downtown. We used to hang out all the time. Now I see him on holidays. I might as well go to okotoks for icecream.

You need to grow up and move to the burbs you urban hipster!!!

[Jayems]

I moved into our new home in Copperfield 2 months ago. I've never smelled the dump, but I smell the water retention/storm ponds every now and again. Kind of a stanky, stagnant water smell.

F'in hell is it windy in Copperfield. We're in a new development, so there's nothing behind us. The wind just howls. Shakes the whole house and construction debris just flies everywhere.

Other than that, I love it. It will be much better once all the construction is gone, but that's just a matter of time. My wife and I are from the west (westhills, 16th ave etc). So it was a bit of an adjustment living in the deep south, but it's fine.

I take the McKenzie roundabout every day to get to Deerfoot. Seriously. Calgarians ARE STUPID at driving in them. No idea whatsoever.

And I've noticed the police have quite a few speed traps in the area. I always see them out with their radar guns.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

I live in Elgin in McKenzie Towne. We havent smelled the dump since moving in last November, I know the smell from driving down 52nd street sometimes. To be honest its not that bad of a smell, its a musk similar to Edmonton. I love the neighbourhood, its clean and for the most part people are friendly. Having the deerfoot so close is great, you can get downtown in 15-20 minutes.

Yeah but during rush hour it also takes 15-20 minutes just to get to deerfoot.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Yeah but during rush hour it also takes 15-20 minutes just to get to deerfoot.

I use 52nd to 22x to deerfoot. No waiting at the stupid traffic circle for timid Thomas to finally go.

[Tyler]

I live in Cranston and love it.

I CAN'T WAIT until the SE Ring Road is done though. Will make living down here a bit more accessible.

And yes - Calgary truly is full of Southies and Northies. We both hate having to go to each other's ends of the city's. Doesn't help that we're ~ 40kms apart from tip to tip.

[Wookie]

I want to move to the Centre West, around Westside Rec centre. But it seems too expensive. The South I could never do (deep south) as a northie. But the communities seem nice. Cranston,Makenzie, etc. Lake communities. I also want to move where I want to live, if friends live in the area it's a bonus. But it's too big of a thing to do because someone else lives "in the area."

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Tyler

I live in Cranston and love it.

I CAN'T WAIT until the SE Ring Road is done though. Will make living down here a bit more accessible.

And yes - Calgary truly is full of Southies and Northies. We both hate having to go to each other's ends of the city's. Doesn't help that we're ~ 40kms apart from tip to tip.

Having a city of Northies and Southies also makes beer league hockey kind of weird. You always have two extremes...Guys like me, who feel like we're driving to another city if the game is at Brentwood, and then the Northies, who are screwed if we have a game in Indus east of the city on 22x.

....and to make matters worse, most of our games are like 11pm on work nights. So if the game is at say, Brentwood at 11:15pm on a Wednesday, and you live in the south, there's no way you're getting home before 1:30am.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by MikeN

Check out Cranston, not that far away

[Russic]

quick side rant:

I'm slightly ashamed to admit my roundabout knowledge was a little iffy. I just spent about 10 minutes on youtube going through videos. Sweet jesus there are some horrible instructional videos out there. It's a concept that takes probably less than 60 seconds to explain, but every video is in the 4-6 minute range. Why would you spend the first 3 minutes of your video explaining the positives of the roundabout instead of just explaining how the hell to use it? Seems to me that's the biggest problem.

Happy to report I've been using them properly ... I had low confidence in what I was doing, but I was doing it right.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Is there really that big of a difference between the north and the south in Calgary?