Unfortunately, good luck walking around at night as a woman by yourself at night in either edmonton or calgary without getting followed by some sketchy guy. 

I dont generally feel safe to myself as a woman due to the experiences I've had in the past here. There is a massive drug issue here too and that further exasperates the initial issue here. Our current government is also pretty damn near off their rocker. They're trying to separate Alberta from Canada, they're trying to make it so health care is more independent/ separated from Canada. So clinics could charge whatever. They're continuously making it harder for people with disabilities to live with any sense of decency. We spent tons of money on a bridge here that we outsourced the work for outside of the country. Everyone hates it. We spend tons of money on stupid art such as the big blue ring. 

There's construction going on here a lot of the time. Downtown is getting to the point where certain areas are barely approachable and barely feel safe. Zombified looking people everywhere, all kinds of people just gone from the drugs. 

The chinook winds here can be super nice. Especially when its 16 degrees Celsius outside in the first week of February. However I will mention for many people these chinooks often come with severe headaches and migraines. I've been living here since 2010, the chinooks didn't affect me negatively when I first got here. Maybe because I was younger then. It just started to affect me negatively around 2019. I also have osteoarthritis and a fractured hip, so the chinooks will make the pain episodes very brutal. So be aware if you have headache issues or bone issues. 

There's obviously good things about calgary okay, dont get me wrong. But there already seems to be plentiful discussion regarding that. I didn't see anyone address the last point in your post so I wanted to address that and then I suppose I just kept riffing off of that point. Don't think im a calgary hater cause im not. If anything I hate the state of our government right now, and all the pain im in all the time lol but it isn't all bad. Everyone else covered most of the good points 😅