Will you live in Calgary for the rest of your life?

[Weitz]

I hope not to live here for the rest of my life. Don't know where I would go though.

[FlamingHomer]

Originally Posted by jayswin

To be honest, all in, it doesn't sound like a very good place to live at all.

And you might be in the group that would move here and move back shortly after. Of which, many have done that. This is not a criticism to anyone who has done that. I find the people who love everything about this place to be the most concerning.

[GirlySports]

i didn't mean erratic and lack of planning in a vacation sense. i mean erratic basic rules. I need that sort of structure.
Similar to the what was posted about Panama, Asia, especially SE Asia can be chaotic. On vacation it's fine but working and living there could be different.

Can you commute from A to B everyday in a timely fashion.
Can you eat street food every day or have to buy and cook eventually. Street food is not healthy over the long term.
People are nice but offices can be bureaucratic and bog down
Getting the right papers, how to get paid, how to pay for things daily etc..
Corruption, I've had to bribe customs officers and taxi drivers to get things
And as a girl, it's always a bit less safe when I leave Canada.

[savemedrzaius]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

I've done trips to the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Thailand 3 times. Absolutely love SE Asia in general, and had Vietnam next on my list anyways before meeting my wife. Everytime I've gone it's been harder to leave. Beautiful weather, some of the nicest and most hospitable people on the planet, laid back cultures (especially compared to Japan or Korea), and amazing food wherever you go. Structure doesn't mater much to me, every trip I've ever gone on I've done no more planning past buying the plane ticket

I live in southern China so flights to places like Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam are dirt cheap.

Of all them Vietnam is by far my favourite and I want to go back. I just went to DaNang which is not "real" Vietnam maybe (I don't know) but it was awesome. Didn't feel overly touristy and like you said food, people, weather, scenery were all amazing. Really though if you are talking about a place to retire I can't imagine a better place than Southeast Asia.

Personally I miss Canada some times, but on the whole life is really good here.

[Suzles]

We emigrated here from England in 2006. I am pretty sure that I will stay here for the rest of my life because I already chose Calgary to live in when I could have chosen anywhere else in the world. As much as my husband would like to be somewhere warmer in the winter I am too obsessed with my Calgary Flames to leave them during the season.

[stampsx2]

Originally Posted by Suzles

We emigrated here from England in 2006. I am pretty sure that I will stay here for the rest of my life because I already chose Calgary to live in when I could have chosen anywhere else in the world. As much as my husband would like to be somewhere warmer in the winter I am too obsessed with my Calgary Flames to leave them during the season.

Compromise and watch gamecenter from a beach in mexico?

[SuperGrover]

I thought id live in Calgary my entire life. Left this summer at around 30. Moved to Mexico city for work. Now ill go wherever a good job is. Im hoping next job/project i can work on will be in europe or south America. But will move back one day.


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[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by AcGold

New Orleans is comparable. Millionaire politician mansions that are a relic from the days of slavery directly across the street from minorities being held up by cops in the ghetto. On the left side of the road giant mansions with fine landscaping and massive fences, on the right side of the road 10 people against a cement wall with guns pointed at them.

Washington D.C. was very much like that too. I was blown away how close massive, Southern plantation style, Georgian multi-million dollar homes were to arguably the worst slum I've ever seen, with what looked like a bunch of gang bangers hanging out in front of a car on blocks in front of some rundown building. It was literally no more than a couple miles, so crazy.

You can tell the middle class in the U.S. - or at least the East coast anyway - is so much smaller than it is in Canada. It's like you're either upper middle class or above, or you're straight broke. No in between. Crazy stuff down there, makes me happy I'm Canadian.

[wontondestruction]

My wife and I will most likely move back to her native Japan. Ideally, we will spend spring/summer or summer/autumn here, and the rest of the time in Japan.

[scotty2hotty]

Cool idea for a thread.

I've moved around a bit but I've lived in the Greater Vancouver area for the past 10 years. I love it.

I will always consider Calgary to be my 'home town' and I enjoy heading back to visit family and friends ... but I could never see myself moving back there to live.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by savemedrzaius

I live in southern China so flights to places like Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam are dirt cheap.

Of all them Vietnam is by far my favourite and I want to go back. I just went to DaNang which is not "real" Vietnam maybe (I don't know) but it was awesome. Didn't feel overly touristy and like you said food, people, weather, scenery were all amazing. Really though if you are talking about a place to retire I can't imagine a better place than Southeast Asia.

Personally I miss Canada some times, but on the whole life is really good here.

yeah DaNang is the most touristy place in Vietnam. So if you didn't feel that was touristy then you'll find the rest of Vietnam different. Just going a few kms north to the Ancient capital Hue is a real contrast (Hue is really poor).

[driveway]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

i didn't mean erratic and lack of planning in a vacation sense. i mean erratic basic rules. I need that sort of structure.
Similar to the what was posted about Panama, Asia, especially SE Asia can be chaotic. On vacation it's fine but working and living there could be different.

Can you commute from A to B everyday in a timely fashion.
Can you eat street food every day or have to buy and cook eventually. Street food is not healthy over the long term.
People are nice but offices can be bureaucratic and bog down
Getting the right papers, how to get paid, how to pay for things daily etc..
Corruption, I've had to bribe customs officers and taxi drivers to get things
And as a girl, it's always a bit less safe when I leave Canada.

You should come to Taiwan. I think you'd love it.

I have no intention of ever living in Calgary again. It's so boring.

Maybe Vancouver, or Montreal. But you'd have to pay me a LOT to get me back to Canada.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by driveway

You should come to Taiwan. I think you'd love it.

I have no intention of ever living in Calgary again. It's so boring.

Maybe Vancouver, or Montreal. But you'd have to pay me a LOT to get me back to Canada.

This kind of attitude always amused me when I was traveling. Would you be willing to give up your Canadian passport for someone who wants to live in Canada? Or is Canada a place of convenience between adventures?

[driveway]

Citizenship is very different from residence. There are a number of advantages to Canadian citizenship which have nothing to do with where I live.

And, for the record I've been a permanent non-resident for over 5 years now, so it's not like I'm taking breaks in Canada between 'adventures.'

Hell, under Harper I wouldn't be allowed to vote I've been gone so long.

[St. Pats]

I'd put myself in that group that's bases the decision on family. Basically if the kids settle in Calgary then we aren't moving. Though I could easily see moving to within easy driving range to enjoy a more rural lifestyle.

[FireGilbert]

Originally Posted by driveway

You should come to Taiwan. I think you'd love it.

I have no intention of ever living in Calgary again. It's so boring.

Maybe Vancouver, or Montreal. But you'd have to pay me a LOT to get me back to Canada.

You should know better than to call Calgary boring on a Calgary message board. That is just trolling.

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

This kind of attitude always amused me when I was traveling. Would you be willing to give up your Canadian passport for someone who wants to live in Canada? Or is Canada a place of convenience between adventures?

I'm not sure I get your response though? Why would someone ever give up a passport if they didn't have to? Even though I am now an Australian citizen and have a passport here there is no way I would ever stop renewing my Canadian one.

[octothorp]

I hope to live in the same city, neighbourhood and house for the rest of my life, though I also do hope to occasionally spend a year living abroad, in northern europe or japan.

[The Familia]

Born and raised and will stay here till the end!

[Locke]

Originally Posted by driveway

You should come to Taiwan. I think you'd love it.

I have no intention of ever living in Calgary again. It's so boring.

Maybe Vancouver, or Montreal. But you'd have to pay me a LOT to get me back to Canada.

Not directed at you specifically, but whenever I see something like this it reminds me of a client that I used to have years ago. He married a Vietnamese woman and he'd winter in Vietnam and then come back to Canada during the summer to work until he could retire.

He had the same attitude and he told me about having an abscessed tooth and he got it fixed by a 'Dentist' in a dirt floor hut for the equivalent of like $8.

"No waiting."

Sure, it got infected and he had to have a Canadian doctor prescribe meds and a Canadian dentist fix it when he got back here, but its 'so much better.'

No thanks. Sounds like a nice place to visit but I like living here.

[V]

I moved to Calgary for work, only planned on staying for two years, but it turned into ten before I left. I miss K-country, but not much else.