| ![[poll]](http://images.proboards.com/new/poll_icon.png "[poll]") Poll | Poll Question: As in like, demographically speaking. |
Poll Totals:
| | Total Votes: 104
Total Voters: 104 |
|
|  Author | Topic: So Where Are You Coming From (Read 5,719 times) |
stamper
Hollering Maricoxi
Child Kicker
member is offline
![[avatar]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0032/7882/products/sriracha_hug_1024x1024.jpg "[avatar]")
Joined: Feb 2010
Gender: Male 
Posts: 4,129
Location: Nowhere Near Berlin
|  | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #195 on May 12, 2011, 3:27pm » | |
May 12, 2011, 3:23pm, wompwomp wrote:
roger.
|
Jan 26, 2013, 4:09pm, wonk wrote:| No rock band wants to play in front of a bunch of people standing still, except the National. |
|
|
|
wompwomp
Snarling Mapinguary
member is offline
![[avatar]](http://womp.sourceforge.net/logo.jpg "[avatar]")
Joined: Feb 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,525
Location: Calgary
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #196 on May 12, 2011, 3:28pm » | |
May 12, 2011, 3:21pm, blacksmile wrote:
Calgary is very rad! I've been here all my life...other than a brief stint in Lethbridge and Regina anyways. There's nowhere else I'd rather live. |
|
Agreed, I love it in Calgary. Such a great city. I moved from the east coast about four years ago and I can't imagine ever going back.
And yes, Edmonton is a dirty hole.
| |
|
blacksmile
Sasquatch!
member is offline
![[avatar]](http://ffwdweekly.com/media/article_images/COVER-GFKinside_cmyk_t_w480.jpg "[avatar]")
Joined: Jan 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,594
Location: Calgary
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #197 on May 12, 2011, 3:29pm » | |
May 12, 2011, 3:26pm, mase50 wrote:
It was fine I suppose. The winter was unbearable. -35 degrees, snowy and windy for about 7 fucking months straight. Nice parks in the summer though.
Edmonton's not so bad. I've been there numerous times and I think it's a fairly nice city. Just looks shitty coming in from Calgary because you have to go through the industrial park. But once you get into the city center a bit it's quite nice.
|
I wouldn't be surprised if you are picturing me peeling a carrot with a staple gun. |
|
davers
Snarling Mapinguary
Doesn't Afraid of Anything
member is offline
![[avatar]](http://zlogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cutitout.jpg "[avatar]")
WHO'S BAD? PARTY TIME
Joined: Apr 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,776
Location: Vancouver, BC
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #198 on May 12, 2011, 3:33pm » | |
May 12, 2011, 1:52pm, Shaxspear III Esq. wrote:
True story. Best city in Canada (possibly the world) I have visited, hands down.
|
|
|
mase50
Howling Windigo
member is offline
Joined: May 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 440
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #199 on May 12, 2011, 3:33pm » | |
damn, that would suck! Has anyone been to Banff?
| |
|
Shaxspear III Esq.
Sasquatch!
Head Chef (borka)
member is offline
![[avatar]](http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/30592_o.gif "[avatar]")
Joined: Feb 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,887
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #200 on May 12, 2011, 3:34pm » | |
Calgary is a big oil and gas executive city. Streets are generally really clean and well maintained. Calgary is very much the conservative (republican) epicenter of Canada. There's a week long event here called the Calgary Stampede which is a big rodeo and carnival with a lot of events and attractions surrounding it. It's one of the more expensive cities to live in Canada. And area-wise, it's fucking huge.
Edmonton....
These are just my opinions. I despise most things about Edmonton and Edmontonians are more than welcome to talk shit about Calgary.
|
May 13, 2013, 10:38pm, peatrick wrote:| Yes. This album sounds like Daft Punk the way a hot dog looks like an apple. |
|
|
|
blacksmile
Sasquatch!
member is offline
Joined: Jan 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,594
Location: Calgary
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #201 on May 12, 2011, 3:34pm » | |
May 12, 2011, 3:33pm, mase50 wrote:| damn, that would suck! Has anyone been to Banff? |
|
Great AMAZING hiking but the city of Banff is a tourist trap! AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS! Go to Waterton instead.
|
I wouldn't be surprised if you are picturing me peeling a carrot with a staple gun. |
|
Shaxspear III Esq.
Sasquatch!
Head Chef (borka)
member is offline
Joined: Feb 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,887
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #202 on May 12, 2011, 3:35pm » | |
May 12, 2011, 3:26pm, mase50 wrote:
AIDS
But I've only been there in the winter.
|
May 13, 2013, 10:38pm, peatrick wrote:| Yes. This album sounds like Daft Punk the way a hot dog looks like an apple. |
|
|
|
mase50
Howling Windigo
member is offline
Joined: May 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 440
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #203 on May 12, 2011, 3:37pm » | |
AIDS? what?
| |
|
Shaxspear III Esq.
Sasquatch!
Head Chef (borka)
member is offline
Joined: Feb 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,887
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #204 on May 12, 2011, 3:39pm » | |
Exactly
|
May 13, 2013, 10:38pm, peatrick wrote:| Yes. This album sounds like Daft Punk the way a hot dog looks like an apple. |
|
|
|
alex
Guest
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #205 on May 12, 2011, 3:40pm » | |
I'm not going to talk shit about Calgary except to say that without the Olympics, Calgary would have been Edmonton's identical twin.
I agree that the stretch of Gateway Blvd from the city limit to Whyte Ave is horrendous, but to judge a city based on 1 road which ends up turning pretty fucking nice makes me think a lot less of your arguments.
for the rest of this thread I think I'll reply to shit-talk about Edmonton with only pictures.
| |
|
alex
Guest
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #206 on May 12, 2011, 3:43pm » | |
May 12, 2011, 3:34pm, blacksmile wrote:
May 12, 2011, 3:33pm, mase50 wrote:| damn, that would suck! Has anyone been to Banff? |
|
Great AMAZING hiking but the city of Banff is a tourist trap! AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS! Go to Waterton instead. |
|
go to Jasper. Almost no chain stores, more actual nature and small town feel.
| |
|
blacksmile
Sasquatch!
member is offline
Joined: Jan 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,594
Location: Calgary
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #207 on May 12, 2011, 3:44pm » | |
Fuck! Us Albertans are definitely showing our pride today!
Whyte Ave. is pretty awesome, and like Regina, Edmonton has some nice lush parks and rivers.
edit - AGREED, JASPER IS NICE! WATERTON IS NICER THOUGH.
|
I wouldn't be surprised if you are picturing me peeling a carrot with a staple gun. |
|
mase50
Howling Windigo
member is offline
Joined: May 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 440
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #208 on May 12, 2011, 3:44pm » | |
i would like to see some pics of both cities
| |
|
Shaxspear III Esq.
Sasquatch!
Head Chef (borka)
member is offline
Joined: Feb 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,887
| | Re: So Where Are You Coming From
« Reply #209 on May 12, 2011, 3:47pm » | |
Most of my bias towards Edmonton has to do with driving in it. The constant construction everywhere, the fact that your Mayor doesn't know what a snowplow is, circle intersections, the street numbering is backwards, and the numerous roads that all of a sudden decide to change names when you haven't turned off it.
|
May 13, 2013, 10:38pm, peatrick wrote:| Yes. This album sounds like Daft Punk the way a hot dog looks like an apple. |
|
|
| |
|
![[Home]](http://images.proboards.com/new/menu/home.png "[Home]")
![[New Topics]](http://images.proboards.com/menu/topics.png "[New Topics]")
![[Help]](http://images.proboards.com/new/menu/help.png "[Help]")
![[Search]](http://images.proboards.com/new/menu/search.png "[Search]")
![[Login]](http://images.proboards.com/new/menu/login.png "[Login]")
![[Register]](http://images.proboards.com/new/menu/register.png "[Register]")
![[Search This Thread]](http://images.proboards.com/new/buttons/search2.png "[Search This Thread]")
![[Share Topic]](http://images.proboards.com/new/buttons/share.png "[Share Topic]")
![[Print]](http://images.proboards.com/new/buttons/print.png "[Print]")
Logged