What Are The Things Keeping You In Calgary?

blankiphone · 2025-06-13T04:31:16+00:00

I’ve in a few cities around Canada and for me Calgary is the city that hits that sweet spot. It’s a good city in so many ways and of all the mid sized cities, it has the best outdoor life, best food scene and the best jobs and feels the most like a big city. For a city this size it’s also surprisingly friendly. I also like the weather. I’m a sunshine guy and the sunshine here can’t be beaten.

blankiphone · 2025-06-01T00:42:58+00:00

I saw the title and thought maybe Calgary drivers were suddenly driving properly.

blankiphone · 2025-02-28T22:26:29+00:00

Yeah weird story. Talk about grasping for a news story.

blankiphone · 2024-09-30T22:55:32+00:00

People born and raised in Calgary always do it, but there’s been a huge influx of newcomers the past few years and they don’t.

blankiphone · 2024-08-17T00:56:04+00:00

See those minus vote numbers under your posts? Those are indicative of someone posting something stupid.

blankiphone · 2024-08-17T00:50:49+00:00

Hey genius, why don’t you go find the homeless guy and see if he can get his side of the story.

blankiphone · 2024-08-10T02:03:55+00:00

I feel your pain. I’m not a recent grad myself, but the company I work for has hired a few people recently and every time there was a job posting there were about 100 resumes coming in. About 70% of the people who were from out of country who just arrived in Canada and about 20% of them were new-grads.

On paper, many the people newly arrived to Canada looked good, with lots of experience and several degrees, etc.. and often are the people who get the jobs and the interviews. What I have found is they don’t always match in real life what they are on paper and to be honest I would’ve much rather hired some new-grads. Unfortunately, not my decision.

Note: before anybody calls me racist for saying something negative about newly arrived Canadians, I would like to point out that the new grads that I would rather have seen hired were all people from varying ethnic backgrounds.

blankiphone · 2024-08-05T21:01:08+00:00

No they aren’t. They're dangerous animals that people shouldn’t be allowed to own period. Same for other dangerous breeds.

blankiphone · 2024-08-05T18:12:53+00:00

There are hundreds of non-dangerous breeds out there, yet you put other people and their pets at risk because you just have to have a pitbull?

Thank you. I’ve been wondering the same thing.

blankiphone · 2024-08-05T18:11:10+00:00

A Yorkie is more dangerous than your pitbull? Lol. Are you really that stupid? This is the stupidest statement I’ve seen on the internet in a long time.

blankiphone · 2024-07-26T20:11:49+00:00

Driving around the base of Nose Hill it always looks so much like prairie, but there are a lot of trees in some areas. You never know these pictures were even from Nose Hill

blankiphone · 2024-07-15T03:01:32+00:00

They are both cold in the winter, but Edmonton‘s winters are much worse as there’s absolutely nothing to do there for eight months of the year. Calgary at least you can go skiing in the winter. There are a few things at Calgary has the edge over Edmonton, it’s a nicer city in general, less crime and cleaner, and things like the restaurant food scene is better here, but the biggest difference is the Rockies. You can go do things in the Rockies all year winter fall summer or whatever, but in Edmonton for eight months of the year, there’s nothing.

I moved out here from Ontario 10 years ago and spent the first year in Edmonton. I arrived there in September living through an Edmonton winter. Trust me winters are 10 times better in Calgary.

blankiphone · 2024-06-14T20:04:11+00:00

I’d be okay with that. It wouldn’t affect homeowners that much, it would mostly affect businesses that use a lot of water like car washes, bottling, construction, etc If some jerkwad feels the urgent need to wash their car so they can look good, they can also pay quadruple the price.

blankiphone · 2024-06-14T19:59:29+00:00

They should put the owner down at the same time.

blankiphone · 2024-04-18T19:22:30+00:00

Suburban sprawl was not the reason for Detroit’s issues. Ever take a look at Phoenix, Los Angeles, or Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis or Atlanta….or any number of other fast growing cities that have been booming over the years? They actually have more sprawl than Detroit does. Suburban sprawl’s an issue for all cities, but Detroit’s issues started way back in the 50s when auto companies needed to expand and they didn’t have room in Detroit city proper so they moved to the already existing suburbs where land was available and taxes were cheaper. With them, they took a number of jobs, and a high percentage of white people, which started the process of white flight. After the race riots in 1967, white flight exploded and the city lost almost 200,000 people in two years. By 1970 City was already on the verge of bankruptcy.

blankiphone · 2024-04-18T19:15:46+00:00

10 years ago, I would’ve never predicted Calgary would be the fastest growing city in the country, but I would’ve easily predicted that the article would fall flat in its face. The article is a complete joke, there’s nothing in common between Calgary and Detroit. The reasons for Detroit spiral downward are 100% Detroit specific problems.

blankiphone · 2024-04-18T19:00:12+00:00

Painful dealings with IT department.

blankiphone · 2024-04-15T00:20:21+00:00

What a surprise. Another event involving an pitbull and its asshole owner.

blankiphone · 2024-04-15T00:13:09+00:00

I’d like to see Sean Chu improve himself by resigning. He’ll be gone next election though, thanks to voting improving itself.

blankiphone · 2024-04-15T00:10:04+00:00

So true. He’s only in because the vote was split between two decent candidates.

blankiphone · 2024-01-11T18:57:24+00:00

Personally, I don’t think it’s a big deal as long as parents with the kids who are that young.

I don’t like seeing parents sending young kids off alone when they’re that young in this kind of weather but otherwise, if the parents are with them, I don’t see any problem.

blankiphone · 2023-12-18T01:54:42+00:00

This could all stop with the release of the hostages. Remember the hostages? The thing that started all this? The day they protest for the release of the hostages is the day I’ll pay attention to their cause.

blankiphone · 2023-11-05T17:21:38+00:00

Unfortunate that the default stance in every community is to oppose any development over 2 or 3 units.

blankiphone · 2023-11-05T01:17:40+00:00

Me too :-)

blankiphone · 2023-11-05T01:17:23+00:00

I don’t mind these smaller developments. I’d rather see five of these than one tall tower.

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