Tell me about the neighbourhood of Highwood

[rotten42]

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

I think Collingwood, Charleswood and Brentwood are nicer to waaay nicer in general. If you're just out browsing maybe take a spin around those areas. They're predominantly r-1 which people value as well but for different reasons.

They are nicer...and more expensive.

[Leeman4Gilmour]

This seems to be a fairly common map of the "inner city"

[Fuzz]

Ya, that is probably the more common one, stopping at 32nd ave. But Remax lists Highwood:

http://www.remaxcentral.ab.ca/innercity-calgary/

And McKnight/JLB makes sense as a delimiter. It's about 5km to downtown, which is about 1/3rd of the city radius to the north. When you look to the south Glenmore is around 6km from downtown and Sarcee is about 6km to the west.

Heck, Forest Lawn is included at over 7km, and I wouldn't personally consider anything past Deerfoot "inner city". Same with Bowness at 10km away. If Bowness and Forrest Lawn are inner city, so is Highwood, dagnammit!

[troutman]

Bowness is inner city? Used to be a separate city until 1964.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by troutman

Bowness is inner city? Used to be a separate city until 1964.

Meanwhile, in Airdrie....

"soon...soon."

[puffnstuff]

That map is really generous with the inner city label.

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour

This seems to be a fairly common map of the "inner city"

I'd remove Forest Lawn, Bowness and Ogden, and Winston-Heights in that image also includes Greenview which I would remove. I mean it's pretty subjective this map has Highwood as inner city as well:

Spoiler!

With urban sprawl, I might have to get use to seeing inner city definition expand as well

There's probably old-timers mad that we're including anything north of 16th avenue as Inner City!

[jwslam]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Typically I think McKnight/JLB is now used as the boundary for "inner city".

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Fuzz are you pulling this from somewhere, it seems pretty far out to me.

I consider anywhere the Car2Go is available, and UberEats serves as inner city

[YYC in LAX]

Originally Posted by Royle9

After living in Calgary my entire life - (30 years) and now living in Cochrane I'd be very cautious moving to the inner city unless there's a really big reason for wanting to do so, especially the N.E.

Not sure what area in Cochrane you live but the extra 15 minute commute for me a day is far and above better than dealing with living in the city, the crime the congestion, the air traffic over the N.E.

lol

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by troutman

I saw a fight in the parking lot of the car wash on Northmount Drive last month. The 7-11 by Stavros is very sketchy.

Generally though, it is nice community to walk around. Fairly quiet. Close to many things. The "Local" pub on Northmount just closed, and is being replaced by a new restaurant.

Which--the Riverstone?

Edit: Or maybe you mean The "Local." Wow, time to call it a day.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

Which--the Riverstone?

No, The Local. On Northmount north of 40th ave in the little strip mall by the schools. Any word on what the new restaurant is?

[bizrns]

Hey, I've lived in in mount pleasant for the last 8 years. While not the same neighbourhood many similarities.

-my daughters go to the highwood mandarin immersion elementary school. This may or may not be your thing, we're a non-mandarin speaking household so a bit of a challenge, but the school itself seems awesome. They learn lots.
-lots of restaurants and even a few pubs around. Nice restaurants, fast food, take out etc.
-easy to get downtown when needed, can walk, bus, car2go, bike..
-confed is an great place to hang out

-we live close to 4th, it's noisy and busy
-housing in MP is dammed expensive

BTW, i've also been to the 7-11 in highwood plenty of times and seems pretty normal to me. They ran out of propane tank refills last time, the bastards!

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

I'd remove Forest Lawn, Bowness and Ogden, and Winston-Heights in that image also includes Greenview which I would remove. I mean it's pretty subjective this map has Highwood as inner city as well:

Spoiler!

With urban sprawl, I might have to get use to seeing inner city definition expand as well

There's probably old-timers mad that we're including anything north of 16th avenue as Inner City!

If you're taking out winston-heights you pretty well need to take out a bunch of the south neighbourhoods as well. Is Chinook Centre in the inner city by any reasonable definition?