Quality of life & making wrong decision for some

[shootingstar]

know Edmonton and Calgary are quite different, but I found that even living within 5 miles of downtown, I could easily spend 1.5-2 hours in my car in a day to get all my errands done, since things can be quite spread out. For some reason, I had to visit four different strip malls in order to bank, grocery, dry clean, and drug store/post office. 20 minutes in between destinations can really add up.

Yee gads!
Glad you sold at the right time. Hopefully hubby still has job somehow / you found one.

Poeple talk about finding a good friend in the rural areas. Hmmmm. Yea, I guess. Same problem as living in the middle of city. Probability of friendships have not a whole lot to do whether or not a city or rural lifestyle helps foster it. More of a blend of types of social activities and happenstance.

This weekend and last, I continue to find out more folks migrated from other parts of Canada and landing to live in Calgary.

I'm not totally sure our current mayor (a Harvard-educated South Asian-Canadian and Islamic) who won by a surprising landlslide, if there's total truth in what he said of the so-called new Calgary now: "Nobody cares where you're daddy is from". A semi-boosterish, positive comment in response to pervasive redneck reputation and conservatism of some midwestern parts of Canada. Most definitely Calgary is still (to me) quite conservative and ...sorry, mercenary. Voices of the marginalized in this city ...are muffled a whole lot more than in Toronto and Vancouver. Local service agencies hardly make the news here..It takes alot of velvet-mittened kickass to get attention.

That includes cycling infrastructure matters.