2013 Calgary Best Neigbourhoods

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Also, I just Google mapped Lake Bonavista Drive to UC. It's 23 minutes taking Crowchild or 25 minutes taking Deerfoot. You said that commute was over an hour, which wasn't close to true. You tripled the time for your post.

Yeah good luck with trying to drive from LB to UofC in 23 minutes or 25 minutes. There is a reason why deep south Calgary sucks ass. The effing traffic is insane! You couldn't pay me enough to live down there.Well maybe if they made Macleod trail into 8 lanes of traffic with no lights.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I guess I wouldn't have a problem with your posts if you weren't being so blatantly dishonest. First of all, why would you take your children with you on a commute? There are childcare options in the neighbourhood including a Montessori. That school is five minutes from any house in the neighbourhood. Drop your kids off then drive to work like everybody else does. I'd scream my head off too if you unnecessarily dragged me on your commute everyday.

And kids don't stay little forever. There are three elementary schools that I can think of in the neighbourhood as well as a Junior High. In a couple of years when your kid is in school your home's proximity to the school will be one of the most important things in your life so I hope you have one close by.

Also, I just Google mapped Lake Bonavista Drive to UC. It's 23 minutes taking Crowchild or 25 minutes taking Deerfoot. You said that commute was over an hour, which wasn't close to true. You tripled the time for your post.

Lake Bonavista Drive to the Calgary Tower is 21 minutes. Big whoop.

Lake Bonavista Drive to a random business in the Foothills Industrial Park (where tens of thousands of Calgarians work) is 13 minutes.

You're suggesting LB is in the boondocks, but it's not.

I thought you were not going to defend Lake Bonavista.....you lying sack of.....

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

Yeah good luck with trying to drive from LB to UofC in 23 minutes or 25 minutes. There is a reason why deep south Calgary sucks ass. The effing traffic is insane! You couldn't pay me enough to live down there.Well maybe if they made Macleod trail into 8 lanes of traffic with no lights.

Actually I could routinely get from my folks old place to my place of work, past the university Northland Dr. in 25 minutes. If there was an accident that was a different issue, but it is easily do-able via Anderson / 14th / Glenmore / Crowchild.

The biggest ass-sucking traffic problems in this city is in the NW at 5th Ave and Kensington Rd. I probably spend 3 days of my life a year waiting for those bloody lights if so much as a fly poops on the road..

[Peanut]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I guess I wouldn't have a problem with your posts if you weren't being so blatantly dishonest. First of all, why would you take your children with you on a commute? There are childcare options in the neighbourhood including a Montessori. That school is five minutes from any house in the neighbourhood. Drop your kids off then drive to work like everybody else does. I'd scream my head off too if you unnecessarily dragged me on your commute everyday.

And kids don't stay little forever. There are three elementary schools that I can think of in the neighbourhood as well as a Junior High. In a couple of years when your kid is in school your home's proximity to the school will be one of the most important things in your life so I hope you have one close by.

Also, I just Google mapped Lake Bonavista Drive to UC. It's 23 minutes taking Crowchild or 25 minutes taking Deerfoot. You said that commute was over an hour, which wasn't close to true. You tripled the time for your post.

Lake Bonavista Drive to the Calgary Tower is 21 minutes. Big whoop.

Lake Bonavista Drive to a random business in the Foothills Industrial Park (where tens of thousands of Calgarians work) is 13 minutes.

You're suggesting LB is in the boondocks, but it's not.

Because my daughter goes to daycare in my building downtown? And if she comes with me on my commute then I can put in a 9-hour work day as required and she's only at daycare for 9 hours. Instead of dropping her in my community and having her at daycare for 10+ hours everyday.

But you're right Sliver. You convinced me. I called my realtor this morning, and I'm listing my house (which incidentally is 1.5 blocks from a great elementary school, but thanks for the tidbit about how important proximity to schools are), and moving to Lake Bonavista. And I'm pulling my daughter out of her daycare that she loves and enrolling her in Montessori. In Lake Bonavista. EVERYONE IN CALGARY SHOULD LIVE IN LAKE BONVISTA!!!!!!!!

I don't know how I made it this far in life before you came along and enlightened me to the superior, Lake Bonavista way. Thanks man.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Peanut

Because my daughter goes to daycare in my building downtown? And if she comes with me on my commute then I can put in a 9-hour work day as required and she's only at daycare for 9 hours. Instead of dropping her in my community and having her at daycare for 10+ hours everyday.

But you're right Sliver. You convinced me. I called my realtor this morning, and I'm listing my house, and moving to Lake Bonavista. And I'm pulling my daughter out of her daycare that she loves and enrolling her in Montessori.

I don't know how I made it this far in life before you came along and enlightened me to the superior, Lake Bonavista way.

I showed my folks who just sold their house in Lake Bonavista to move further south this thread.......they filed for divorce this morning.

Thanks Sliver.

[kevman]

Originally Posted by Sliver

then drive to work like everybody else does.

No thanks.

[troutman]

Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by jammies

Yeah, you don't want people encroaching on your territory and stealing your schtick. All ridiculous exaggerations and outright obtuse denials of reality should fall into your bailiwick, right?

While your trolling attempts are occasionally amusing, if only for the frothy-mouthed reactions some people fall into, their increasing frequency and length begin to bore. Nobody could seriously be as clueless as you purport to be, so maybe dial it back a bit until hockey season starts and you can camouflage your pronouncements of idiocy within all the other rabble-rousing that will inevitably begin again.

I can't for the life of me see how you could think I'm trolling when everything I say is true (from my perspective, of course). I mean this thread is about which neighbourhoods people think are the best and that's exactly what I'm discussing. Maybe PM a mod?

Originally Posted by Peanut

Because my daughter goes to daycare in my building downtown? And if she comes with me on my commute then I can put in a 9-hour work day as required and she's only at daycare for 9 hours. Instead of dropping her in my community and having her at daycare for 10+ hours everyday.

But you're right Sliver. You convinced me. I called my realtor this morning, and I'm listing my house (which incidentally is 1.5 blocks from a great elementary school, but thanks for the tidbit about how important proximity to schools are), and moving to Lake Bonavista. And I'm pulling my daughter out of her daycare that she loves and enrolling her in Montessori. In Lake Bonavista. EVERYONE IN CALGARY SHOULD LIVE IN LAKE BONVISTA!!!!!!!!

I don't know how I made it this far in life before you came along and enlightened me to the superior, Lake Bonavista way. Thanks man.

Okay, different strokes for different folks. You'd rather have your kid in a car during your commute whereas I think they're better off in childcare during that time. We did have our kids in a dayhome that was about 20 minutes away from our house when we lived in the NW and I always felt really bad for them sitting in the car in stop-and-go traffic when they're tired, hungry and uncomfortable. Having childcare close to your house means they sit in the car way less and are less vulnerable to traffic problems (accidents, detours, construction, inclement weather, etc.). That has nothing to do with Lake Bonavista; that is just a different childcare philosophy that seemed to inspire a heated response from you.

You also said it was over an hour to commute to and from Lake Bonavista and I proved to you that was completely untrue.

I think we should agree to disagree to keep the peace.

[fundmark19]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I don't know how I made it this far in life before you came along and enlightened me to the superior, Lake Bonavista way. Thanks man.

Your mind is going to be blown once you find out about Lake Bonaventure. A private lake inside a lake community it is like inception over there

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I can't for the life of me see how you could think I'm trolling when everything I say is true (from my perspective, of course). I mean this thread is about which neighbourhoods people think are the best and that's exactly what I'm discussing. Maybe PM a mod?



.

Actually, this #### storm started because you stated things were obective facts, when infact they were subjective opinions from you perspective...

Nice change of tack.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I can't for the life of me see how you could think I'm trolling when everything I say is true (from my perspective, of course). I mean this thread is about which neighbourhoods people think are the best and that's exactly what I'm discussing. Maybe PM a mod?

So....everything you say is true...from your perspective. Thats not called the truth, its called an opinion. A subjective opinion at that. And I'd say trolling accusations are accurate because you claim to know what objective is, get proven wrong almost instanteneously, and then proceed to continue believing you are correct. If its not trolling, the alternative answers are not very good.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Sliver

You also said it was over an hour to commute to and from Lake Bonavista and I proved to you that was completely untrue.

Google Maps does not account for traffic volume and traffic lights.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by troutman

Google Maps does not account for traffic volume and traffic lights.

Yes I understand that, but I even have pylon backing me up that Bonavista to Northland VW is 25 minutes. It's not like I'm lying; she is.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yes I understand that, but I even have pylon backing me up that Bonavista to Northland VW is 25 minutes. It's not like I'm lying; she is.

That is possible - when there is no traffic.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by troutman

Google Maps does not account for traffic volume and traffic lights.

My parents house didn't even show up on Google Maps until about a year ago. Houses can transcend space and time and appear from nothing....Google proofed.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yes I understand that, but I even have pylon backing me up that Bonavista to Northland VW is 25 minutes. It's not like I'm lying; she is.

#### you are amazing.

Someone has a different opinion/experience they are lying. I grew up in Deer Run, a spitting distance from Lake Bonivista. Traffic time up to U of C was all over the map and dependent on a numner of things, weather/time of day/road work/accidents/humour of the gods. It has taken me 1hr + to get from U of C plent of times.

[Sliver]

Okay, well I'll let it go. This thread has been derailed long enough.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Okay, different strokes for different folks. You'd rather have your kid in a car during your commute whereas I think they're better off in childcare during that time. We did have our kids in a dayhome that was about 20 minutes away from our house when we lived in the NW and I always felt really bad for them sitting in the car in stop-and-go traffic when they're tired, hungry and uncomfortable. Having childcare close to your house means they sit in the car way less and are less vulnerable to traffic problems (accidents, detours, construction, inclement weather, etc.). That has nothing to do with Lake Bonavista;

Yes it does. For many people the best neighborhood is one where you don't need to be in your car for more than an hour a day to go about your business (commuting, grocery shopping, going to doctors/dentists etc), it's one where these are reached in a short walk.

Most people wouldn't trade those for a man made lake surrounded by early examples of McMansions.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I can't for the life of me see how you could think I'm trolling when everything I say is true (from my perspective, of course). I mean this thread is about which neighbourhoods people think are the best and that's exactly what I'm discussing. Maybe PM a mod?

So what your saying is that it is an objective fact that lake comunities are better in your subjective opinion

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I can't for the life of me see how you could think I'm trolling when everything I say is true (from my perspective, of course). I mean this thread is about which neighbourhoods people think are the best and that's exactly what I'm discussing. Maybe PM a mod?



Okay, different strokes for different folks. You'd rather have your kid in a car during your commute whereas I think they're better off in childcare during that time. We did have our kids in a dayhome that was about 20 minutes away from our house when we lived in the NW and I always felt really bad for them sitting in the car in stop-and-go traffic when they're tired, hungry and uncomfortable. Having childcare close to your house means they sit in the car way less and are less vulnerable to traffic problems (accidents, detours, construction, inclement weather, etc.). That has nothing to do with Lake Bonavista; that is just a different childcare philosophy that seemed to inspire a heated response from you.

You also said it was over an hour to commute to and from Lake Bonavista and I proved to you that was completely untrue.

I think we should agree to disagree to keep the peace.

Just on this point, after a year of panicky drives across the city to the daycare near my home during rush-hour, trying desperately to get there before 6PM, I will never, ever, ever have a daycare that is not near my work. There is absolutely no advantage to it being the other way around, unless your kids need before/after school care near your designated school.

All of those other issues you bring up can be easily solved with snacks, and in-car entertainment, etc.