victoria_paula

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

Almost Canadian

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

Give us a clue

Jericho79

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.

Steve_

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.

wardy_1990

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.

rwin

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

Jingsamichty

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.

Tangram

Wow

BristolUK

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

dbd33

on camels.

Steve_

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.

wardy_1990

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.

rwin

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

wardy_1990

yawn

Novocastrian

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