Where is the best place to live in Calgary
 

Hi, All


I am after some information on Calgary I am relocating there in March and I am wondering where the best place is to live. I have a ten yr old son, so it would be nice to be close to schools. My husband already has a job In calgary .

Any information you could give me would be great .

Victoria :):D

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What do you like to do; where would you like to live.

Give us a clue:p

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I suspect you're going to be close to schools wherever you chose to live in the city.
Having had a very brief introduction to the traffic last week, I would make sure you live as close as reasonably possible to your husbands job if he's going to be commuting at rush hour.

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Tons of threads on here already about best place to live in Calgary. The answer (if you're minted) is Elbow Drive, Mount Royal or around the reservoir, although the logic has changed a bit since the flood.

Housing market is really tight in Calgary so frankly you're going to end up living where you can find somewhere to live.

Most of it is cookie cutter-type suburbs.

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little bit, housing is hard to find, and seems to be expensive.
the plan seems to be to try and find digs near to transit system, apparently the North and South west are full of Indians and other middle easterners so I reckon I will be aiming for the east side and apparently the south has the best transport links for the public, and the north you will need a car or a lift.


the above I was told by a friend don't know how true it is, it was a while since he lived there, I am sure someone on here will tell you how close it is to the truth.

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Yes, you better keep away from them. Most are at least second generation Canadian and don't like immigrants.

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My friend has a house in the north of Calgary and he is fed up with all the Comanche raiding parties stealing his patio furniture.

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Wow :blink:

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Can't he just listen out for when the drums stop beating and then take it inside?

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on camels.

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It's pretty much untrue.

Any experience prior to say last year I think is largely worthless because the city has changed massively in the last ten years.

For example the completion of the east ring road makes it easier. There are no "ethnic" areas anymore per se, because there has been so much immigration in the last few years. Only possible exception imo is Chinatown. To say "the east side" is somehow less ethnic is a joke. Have a look around Applewood or Forest Lawn. I used to hear people say there were lots of Indians in the NE but they don't anymore, it's just general.

If being near people of different ethnicity is a problem for you, Calgary is definitely not your sort of place. Bear in mind First Nations are a large component of the population.

The southwest is considered one of the better places to live, especially around the reservoir. Elbow Drive is in the southwest which is the superposh area, that and Mount Royal which is also mainly in the southwest.

Also saying the south has superior public transport is wholly inaccurate, the #1 complaint in the south is the lack of public transport.

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not my problem just how it was said to me, we tend not to mince our words as much in construction people are harder to offend.

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What's the polite way to say "I don't want to live next door to a brown guy?"

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yawn

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Is that internet slang for "Yellows And Wogs Neither"?

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:rofl:

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I live in SW, close to LRT, close to trans Canada.

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i'm biased but Country Hills is the best place in Calgary to live, and there's a good mix of white, brown, yellow, black and orange people here...so eventually the area will become a sort of greyish autumnal coloured people neighbourhood

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How did you come to that conclusion?

I often hear people going on about the "mountain view" in the NW that you can only see with a periscope. There are some nice houses up there no doubt but most of it is recently built and nothing too terribly exciting.

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because i live here :lol:

In honesty though, i've easy access to Stoney and Deerfoot for work, easy access to public transport links to go downtown and if i go out on piss, its only about $20 for a taxi home.

Its much quieter than staying downtown, and i have a house with a garage rather than staying in a condo block which seems to be the norm for the guys i know who stay downtown

i have all amenities on my doorstep basically

there's probably other neighbourhoods that offer this...but having only stayed in Renfrew other than here, Country Hills wins hands down :)

the only thing that pisses me off a bit about my house is the fact that of the 3 ways i can get to it, every single one of them has a school zone or playground zone on it at somepoint....nightmare if you happen to hit the schools at busy times...school parents are the stupidest laziest people on the planet :)

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Things for the OP to consider are:
- where is your husband working and what's his maximum commute time.
- will you have a car to get around while hubby is at work or will you be relying on transit

The rest is down to personal preference as to whether you want older or newer housing, suburb or more inner city, facilities like a community social club, recreation facilities, shopping, lake community, etc.

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Pervy.

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No, Colin.

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and whereabouts in Calgary do you live exactly???

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Except that Highway 1 is in the north of the city:p

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I live in the NW and love it.

40 minutes to the mountains and a fabulous view of them from my house.

Hop and a skip to the nearest LRT.:)

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Until someone builds some more houses in front of it, really there was a house I nearly bought up in Panorama Hills I think it was and last time I was up there they'd built even more houses to the west of it and I couldn't see a bloody thing.

I couldn't drive down Country Hills Blvd on a regular basis, drives me nuts, eastbound it's all featureless and there are just more and more and more houses that all look the same, it's very disorientating.

What scares me is driving around the NE ring road because there isn't much there at present but it's totally obvious that eventually that whole area is going to be completely covered with houses.

It really is quite shocking how rapidly Calgary is changing, some of the things people who've visited here or lived here a few years ago say about the place just sound so outdated now.

The whole ethnic thing is what makes me laugh, it really does. I guess white people immigrate from countries where the other ethnicities are worse off but really Calgary would grind to a halt without the First Nations and where exactly is the ghetto in Calgary?

The comment about Indians did make me laugh because erm... what ethnicity is the mayor again?