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Old Dec 1st 2008, 9:15 pm
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Try and find a pub you can call your local...and a good pint, although I've been here more than two years now still searching for that one!

Buy the Calgary Entertainment guide - it's a book full of two for one vouchers and dozens of other free admission passes and coupons for just about everything you can think of. It's a good incentive to get out and about around the city and explore some new places etc. It costs 25 bucks but you'll be eating 2 for 1 at pubs/restaurantsfor the next year.
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Old Dec 1st 2008, 9:29 pm
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Originally Posted by rwin
Thats too bad. I was hoping for that one. Do you know what other locations they're looking at?
According to a recent news report they are negotiating for a location but don't want to divulge any information until it's a done deal.
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Live where you don't have to drive up and down
  • Deerfoot
  • John Laurie
  • McKnight
  • Sarcee
  • Crowfoot
to and from work every day.

Maybe live near an LRT station and use that to commute downtown - if that's where you work.

The newer suburbs are further out.
You will hear more about them because they are being "sold" more vigorously by the developers and house builders. They are not necessarilly better places to live than older more established areas.

Live near a good highschool. There are no coupons etc, you can't move your kid to a "better" highschool.


Find a winter activity you can enjoy with your family. With so much choice - indoors and out - you should be able to find something. It will make winter seem shorter.
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Old Dec 2nd 2008, 12:20 am
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Originally Posted by triumphguy
Live where you don't have to drive up and down
  • Deerfoot
  • John Laurie
  • McKnight
  • Sarcee
  • Crowchild
  • MacLeod
to and from work every day.

Maybe live near an LRT station and use that to commute downtown - if that's where you work.

The newer suburbs are further out.
You will hear more about them because they are being "sold" more vigorously by the developers and house builders. They are not necessarilly better places to live than older more established areas.

Live near a good highschool. There are no coupons etc, you can't move your kid to a "better" highschool.


Find a winter activity you can enjoy with your family. With so much choice - indoors and out - you should be able to find something. It will make winter seem shorter.
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Old Dec 2nd 2008, 12:28 am
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Originally Posted by Flossie and Jim
There's another good farmers market plus flea market plus antiques market in the SE near Blackfoot Trail called Crossroads Market. www.crossroadsmarket.ca
This is also home to the loose moose theatre company- it is really good for little kids
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Thx Steve! You're right.
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Originally Posted by greenbwoy
Try and find a pub you can call your local...and a good pint, although I've been here more than two years now still searching for that one!
Coach and Horses near me is pretty good
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Originally Posted by Brownstar
Coach and Horses near me is pretty good
You must be in Millrise.

Check out Dixons in Midnapore too.
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When you say AMA is that the Alberta motor Ass?????
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Originally Posted by gibbos1
When you say AMA is that the Alberta motor Association?????
Yes

Not sure who the real "Ass" might be there are too many of them.
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haahhaaa very good Steve
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