11-20-2006, 01:01 PM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Originally Posted by wooohooo
Alright, I've lived in Calgary for almost all my life except the past two for school. You get to see alot of things in Edmonton you don't see in Calgary... robberies, stabbings, etc. My whole life I never experianced seeing a robbery, having someone stabbed 2 blocks from my house then 3 blocks then next day... until I moved to Edmonton. JOY!  (And they seem to have a problem with road rage.) |
I've lived in Edmonton for the last 19 years and have never once seen any of the things you say. You must have lived in a real slum area if you saw all of that. Unfortunately every city has their slum areas, even Calgary.
As for the road rage issue, yeah there are people here with that problem but I have found it to be worse in Calgary, especially on the Deerfoot - yikes! I guess that's Alberta drivers for ya! 
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11-20-2006, 04:06 PM
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#42
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Originally Posted by Nicole
I've lived in Edmonton for the last 19 years and have never once seen any of the things you say. You must have lived in a real slum area if you saw all of that. Unfortunately every city has their slum areas, even Calgary.
As for the road rage issue, yeah there are people here with that problem but I have found it to be worse in Calgary, especially on the Deerfoot - yikes! I guess that's Alberta drivers for ya! |
I'm still new to Edmonton... I'm just off whyte and near the safeway, that considered a slum? If it is... i'm moving!!!
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11-20-2006, 04:10 PM
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#43
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by wooohooo
I'm still new to Edmonton... I'm just off whyte and near the safeway, that considered a slum? If it is... i'm moving!!!
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How long have you been there? More than a month? Then you should know if you like the neighborhood or not. Don't move because some people from Calgary say it is a slum or a bad place to live.
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11-20-2006, 04:13 PM
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#44
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
How long have you been there? More than a month? Then you should know if you like the neighborhood or not. Don't move because some people from Calgary say it is a slum or a bad place to live.
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Good point, the whole place is a slum to me and I've never lived there. I can say that about 10-15% of the time I visit Edmonton I get a trip to the hospital and 68 stitches from a beer bottle upside the head.
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11-20-2006, 04:14 PM
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#45
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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
Good point, the whole place is a slum to me and I've never lived there. I can say that about 10-15% of the time I visit Edmonton I get a trip to the hospital and 68 stitches from a beer bottle upside the head.
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Can you explain this?
How many times have you been hit in the side of the head with a beer bottle?
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11-20-2006, 04:15 PM
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#46
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
Can you explain this?
How many times have you been hit in the side of the head with a beer bottle?
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Just once but I've only been to Edmonton about 7 or 8 times.
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11-20-2006, 04:17 PM
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#47
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Oct 2006
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The Safeway at Bonnie Doon mall or the one nearer to the University, on 109 street and 82 ave? My brother lives right by Bonnie Doon and he likes it over there and finds it really quiet - a lot of older people live in that area.
Whyte Ave area is not the best place to live, especially evenings during the weekends but I don't think it is a total 'slum' area. Go closer to downtown for that and of course the area near Rexall Place ... as an Edmontonian I am even ashamed of that area
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11-20-2006, 04:19 PM
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#48
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: insider trading in WTC 7
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jeez, edmonton's not paradise and compared to calgary it's a little rough, but does no one remember electric avenue, with stabbings every weekend?
man, compared even to british columbia edmonton is an ivory tower.
take a stroll through prince george's residential areas by the river.
check out east van, hastings...
alberta is, as far as street violence / hoods / danger areas, a JOKE.
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11-20-2006, 04:37 PM
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#49
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Originally Posted by Looger
jeez, edmonton's not paradise and compared to calgary it's a little rough, but does no one remember electric avenue, with stabbings every weekend?
man, compared even to british columbia edmonton is an ivory tower.
take a stroll through prince george's residential areas by the river.
check out east van, hastings...
alberta is, as far as street violence / hoods / danger areas, a JOKE.
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Very true but according to quite a few posters here on CP, Edmonton might as well be Compton or Queens 
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11-20-2006, 04:40 PM
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#50
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: insider trading in WTC 7
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Originally Posted by wooohooo
I'm still new to Edmonton... I'm just off whyte and near the safeway, that considered a slum? If it is... i'm moving!!!
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when i first moved to calgary i lived in falconridge, and when that came up people would gasp!
'that's the hood man'
i thought it was pretty funny, there weren't gunshots or anything like that.
calgary - is funny.
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11-20-2006, 04:43 PM
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#51
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: insider trading in WTC 7
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Originally Posted by Nicole
Very true but according to quite a few posters here on CP, Edmonton might as well be Compton or Queens |
no kidding.
i had half a day to kill in los angeles this june and took a daytime tour through south central, mostly for bragging rights.
to say nothing of the seasoned travelers on this site that have been in SERIOUS spots!
if edmonton is that bad folks, really, then just stay out of it.
better order your groceries on line and work from the home, i don't like the looks of that guy in your parking lot...
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11-20-2006, 04:49 PM
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#52
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Originally Posted by OILFAN #81
HAHA Steve, your soooooooo funny!
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Yes, yes I am. 
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11-20-2006, 08:53 PM
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#53
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: 127.0.0.1
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Originally Posted by Nicole
Go closer to downtown for that and of course the area near Rexall Place ... as an Edmontonian I am even ashamed of that area |
The real good area is 118 ave of course, and right by the cop shop. 97 st. - > 93 st. between 100 and around 106 ave. real fun people in that area. The hotel across the street from the cop shop is insane. I guess it is alot like the Cecil, which I have been in and lived to tell about it.
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11-21-2006, 08:48 AM
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#54
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Another murder last night in Calgary. Way safer than Edmonton.
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11-21-2006, 08:51 AM
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#55
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I was working last night, and there were cops EVERYWHERE over a certain part of Edmonton. If I had to guess, something major happened that the news hasn't released yet. Murder, home invasion, stabbing...something.
But the bottom line, is that yes, Edmonton seems to have more violent crime than Calgary. More murders obviously. But that doesn't mean Calgary is exempt from these acts. They just might not happen as much. Big cities have big problems, and I hardly think a murder total reflects on the general population of any city.
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11-22-2006, 12:42 AM
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#56
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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Apperently 4 stabbings on Saturday night in Edmonton. 2 of them were on Whyte Ave, just a block off those events I named above.
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11-22-2006, 12:52 AM
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#57
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Stabbings are getting out of control these days, in ALL major cities, not just edmonton. There's lots in Calgary that don't make the news. It's almost a daily occurance.
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11-22-2006, 07:59 PM
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#58
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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Originally Posted by boobaloo
Stabbings are getting out of control these days, in ALL major cities, not just edmonton. There's lots in Calgary that don't make the news. It's almost a daily occurance.
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Either 2 or 3 of those stabbings were fatal
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11-22-2006, 08:19 PM
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#59
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: calgary
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Originally Posted by Nicole
Wow ... I guess this stuff NEVER happens in Calgary .. Calgary is 'Heaven on Earth' |
jealous?
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11-22-2006, 08:20 PM
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#60
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: calgary
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its sad -whats happening to us???? this never used to happen 3 years ago Calgary was named the safest city in the world
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