Calgary's Teeming Million
Run to the foothills! They're breeding! First untold riches. Then babies galore. What next...a majority government? Personally, I think the rise in population is a Liberal scheme: Aliens have been growing baby clones of Anne McLellan in test tubes in order to overwhelm the good 'ole boys in the next election.
Sweden, look out, cuz here comes the Dough family with little baby Kay-Dough in tow.
Sweden, look out, cuz here comes the Dough family with little baby Kay-Dough in tow.
posted by K-Dough at 9:37 AM
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Click the link (different colour than the rest of the text)in the post and then you will gain a context, techno-tard.
According to Dr. Bennett, the little blighter is the millionth reason to purchase a gun. After all, he's going straight to jail due to a lack of daycare here.
I'm just glad I was able to make room for him by leaving!
Ha! You guys is cwazy!!!!
But seriously, I wonder how many of those 35,000 new Calgarians are actually expats returning, immigrants or emigrants from other provinces: all attracted to the big cash bonanza game show that is Calgary these days.
Any idea?
Zip, zero... well, so low as to never count anyways. Calgary is home to new blood, old blood is fleeing for Mexico... me too.
I've lived in Calgary for 35 years, with the exception of a couple three in Toronto and Vancouver, and I only know four people actually born here.
It is sort of impressive though, when I moved here, the city had about 165,000 in 1970.
Watched a boom in 73', one in 79/80'. We were about 500000 by then.
So the real growth was between 1970 and 81'. It took two and a half decades to get to a million. Thats the actual City though, I think we hit a million in 2004 Metro.
Busy, busy. Great place to make money, raise kids, and ski. Sucks for everything else, although the dining and nightlife are picking quite abit thanks to the TO crowd moving in.
Wouldn't want to be a renter though.
Actually, we had the 3rd highest influx of immigrants, 20K. Although not everyone moves to Calgary, some took a wrong turn and end up in Edmonchuck.
I have only been to Calgary once. I was shocked to find downtown a ghost town on Friday night.
Flying in, I remember marvelling at the how the city core seemed to spring up like a pop-up book in the middle of the flat scape. Like someone had built it in a day, slapped it down on a board and said "there ya go!".
You can only do so many body shots at Cowboys. And the whimsical Westin charm of the "home of the caesar" wears off pretty quick.
Sheena- you are one fabulously funny chickie I must say.
(whimsical Westin charm of the "home of the caesar")
we were part of the infllux to calgary in '74. alberta was about the only place in canada that had work.
there wasn't much there save for the glenbow and pubs the size of football fields, but thaetre clagary was great as well as moose (shoot, can't remember the name of that theatre group) and lunchbox theatre. as well the devonian gardens always had live music at noon hour.
i went to sait then worked for ckua. the foothills were our escape almost every weekend. still have good friends from back then, it had to be one of the friendliest places we've ever lived , and like joe points out, very few calgary-born (i have some relatives who were).
now when i go back to the tsu t'ina reserve i have occassion to go into calgary. it spreads out like a million football fields. the deerfoot and blackfoot expansions make it easy and fast to get around though. i think that was al duer's workings.
calgary has always been 'immigrant friendly' , they're used to it since the beginning of the oil days.
It's true - my grade 1 class back in 1980 consisted of 30 kids, of which two, myself and this other boy, had been born in Calgary.
As for returning to Calgary, I'll be back for family visits but I can't imagine moving back there anytime soon. Who knows though?
Yep... Calgary is sort of "Avalon before the fall". Clean, lots a jobs, zero ever happens natural disaster wise.
In fact, I seriously think you'd have a hard time finding a safer place to live.
I've always liked it, but when I get on a plane, I never look back.
Give me New York any day!!!
A friend of mine just moved back a little while ago. I haven't heard from him since! I'm imagining his fate was something like Coyote Ugly meets Dallas in a really dusty the Bermuda Triangle.
JC: RE "safer place". Isn't that because neo-cons are tough on crime though? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha haha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Oops, I think I squirted a bit...
Yep... we have that new rule "one strike, we shoot you... Well, we let you have a smoke first, if that doesn't kill you, then we shoot you.".
It's a little hard on the traffic cops though.
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Their such softies. We let them use Billy Clubs... makes them feel like they put some effort into it.
No squirting, unless its Sheena doing it.
Hey, whats the definition of "Forever", and "Eternity"...
4 Blondes at a 4 way stop.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... oops, I squirted too, all over the blondes.
Yep, just moved back to Cowtown after a five year stint in the Big Smoke. Calgary is so much more laid back than the Tee Dot, it feels like the city is on a permanent vacation by comparison. And everyone looks alarmingly healthy with an eerie, warm glow.
Loving in Calgary: the big sunny skies, the cool nights, the slower pace, chats with strangers, rusty old cars, ubiquitous liquor stores open late, good coffee, the big backyard for my daughter and the unreal employer perks.
Missing from Toronto: the raging sea of humanity, roti, decent curry, buses with frequencies of less than 30 minutes, pedestrians, import beer, residents with fashion sense, and the good people of St Clair West.
the diff between tough alberta law and west coast marshmellow is that criminals don't get all the rights. no to take away from the levity here....well ok , it will, but a friend's underage daughter got sucked in by a 24 year old guy out on probie from kent (attempted murder).
so the 15 year old girl ends up on drugs, his friends gang bang her, the guy beats her, threatens to shoot the mom, blah blah blah. this in west vancouver.
my friend went to get a restraining order and she was told all about criminal rights and denied it.
next year daughter went to jasper t work for the summer....the guy tracked her down, stole her car and beat her up. the cops said, 'no prob', got the guy immediatley and sent him back to kent.
just a little comment on how the balance has tipped a little too far out here.
ok, now, let's see......a horse walks into a bar in calgary. the bartender says, 'why the long face?'
Hey the friend of mine I hadn't heard from chimed in. Are you anonymous now because you are concealing your identity from other Calgarians?
I bet you told them all you were in rehab and jail for those 6 years rather than risk your West cred by nadmitting you lived in T.O. Right?
Glad I'm on the OTHER side of the Rockies. You, however, have nothing but a bit of easily chev'd prairie as a buffer. Toronto: future suburb of Calgary.
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