American here thinking of immigrating to Canada. Work in IT currentl. Thinking of Calgary for several reasons but want to get some unbiased input. Thoughts from residents and visitors? Canadian and other opinions welcome. I guess I'm most curious about what the worst aspects are of this city specifically.
>>70390509
Snowcat lives there
Hes my fave youtuber besides Casey Neistat
Alberta is broke from the death of oil. Good time to buy housing though.
It's fucking cold there m8
>>70390509
Pro: It's not Toronto.
Con: It's still the fucking Prairies. You've had more interesting farts in your life than the three provinces combined.
It's turning into Detroit. Don't go there
Currently in Las Vegas, so weather may be a shock. But I have lived in more snowy mountain west areas before (Salt Lake City, Reno)
Is the pic I posted one of these "once every 10 years" types for calendars kind of photo of what the city looks like?
>>70390865
Try negative 40 winters
Calgary looks like that in the summer
It's not bad, better than Edmonton anyway but that's not a very high bar.
>>70391278
I'm from Edmonton and now I'm in Cambodia.
Edmonton is a shithole.
>>70390830
The northern half of the prairie provinces is fucking great, trees lakes and hills as far as you can see
>>70390509
if u speak mandarin, youll fit just right in buddy.
it is a nice city tho, close to the mountains.
Tons of unemployment right now because the economy is tied to the price of oil. Being close to world class nature is nice though.
>>70390509
A bunch of my friends moved out there for work and they all turned into redneck assholes. If you don't mind the cold, rednecks and stampede bullshit, I guess it's worth a look? Vancouver is nice. It's full of Chinese people but the winters are mild and it's generally a nice place to live.
>>70390509
The pay for IT is much better in the states
Calgary is a nice city, it gets really fucking cold though
>>70390509
>That pic
Calgary hasn't looked that good for the past 15 years. Now it's just dead vegetation only, less than a third of that water flowing through the river, and random chinks crawling around the place now.
Don't waste your time coming here, it's going to become Detroit in a few years.
city's full go away.
>>70392740
Isn't Vancouver ridiculously expensive to live in, due to the Chinese purchasing tons of property to offshore their cash?
Like silicon valley tier expensive, without silicon valley wages.
>>70394586
Yeah they're doing that everywhere in Canada now.
Come to Whitehorse
>>70394641
So what do people do for housing? How is anyone actually surviving in Canada?
>>70390679
>Good time to buy housing though.
Pro tip: Housing price in Calgary will fall further 30% over the next three years if the last oil bust is any indication.
>>70395108
>How is anyone actually surviving in Canada
Selling real-estate to rich foreigners seems to be the thing to be doing at the moment
>>70391382
R A R E
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>>70390509
it's all asians, stay away anon
>>70395108
White people are moving to the suburbs.
Chinese people will follow because the city center will become Chinese ghetto, and they will be like "What if our little Ping Wang can't learn English because he speaks Mandarin with other Chinese kids all day at school?"
Then the cycle will repeat itself.
>>70395304
>mfw Canada's housing bubble is going to pop in the next few years
I will finally be able to buy some land, good times ahead
>>70395465
No, the bubble in Vancouver and Toronto will continue for a while.
China is still sitting on $3 trillion of foreign reserve, and the elite who are stealing it have to park it somewhere.
>>70395108
younger generations aren't moving out because it's too expensive to buy any property. Some are buying condos with their girlfriend of 5 months because that's really the only way people can move out. The average price for a house here now from what I heard is $430,000. they're not even brand new homes they're complete shit.
>>70393738
As a calgarian who used to live in windsor ontario
Calgary is a long ways off from detroit. Calgary will never get to detroit levels.
>>70396131
Are Canadians just taking this up their asses, or is anyone going to do something about it?
>>70390509
We're broke cause oil is crashing. The people that came here because of the oil aren't leaving. We have little to no IT jobs. (I know I'm studying Computer Science here). A bunch of my friends have lost their jobs or have moved away. I was beaten almost to death by wiggers in North East Calgary hopped up on meth and the police couldn't do anything about it because they have no power anymore because of Libtards. The police also couldn't do anything because I wasn't a member of a minority. I am a white blonde male. We have a gigantic population of natives (the niggers of the north drunk all the time). We're full of immigrants that are starting to segregate themselves and breed an intense hatred for the white man. We are becoming extremely libtarded and seriously need help. My car was stolen from in right in front of my house.
I was born and raised here and I am horrified of what it has become.
Calgary used to be a home of great hard working people. We were so friendly and good that we kept our doors unlocked.
On the plus side: We are the home of Stephen Harper. The holy god of Conservatism in Canada. The South West of Calgary hasn't been completely corrupted yet. We have the most Conservatives of anywhere else in the Country. Be mindful that Canadian Conservatism is a lesser form of American Conservatism. We have the largest population of Americans here by percentage of any city in Canada. Most every cowboy and Northern wilderness movie made today was made here. Calgary is a beautiful and clean city still as compared to... most any other city. Our Police are great and wonderful people. Most people who have been here for at least 20 years are great and wonderful people. The mountains are very close by. We are hard working people. Our whole culture is based around working hard and being as friendly and good as possible. My house was in the 2013 flood and there were hundreds of volunteers who came to my house and helped out. About 60 of them were from a "Good Samaritans" church and are the most incredible people ever, brought food and ... just the greatest people. I wish my city would go back to the way it was.
With Trudeau in power and the NDP in command of our province were are guaranteed to become a poor uncivilized pile of garbage.
>>70396483
it's something no one with ability will do anything about.
If a politician decides to introduce laws to curb foreign investment to weaken the housing market, every home owner who just 'lost' $100,000 will never vote for their party again.
At this point, all the 20 somethings can hope for is a housing market collapse
>>70396483
Just taking it.
it's a shithole, half the city is suburbs, the other half is mud. No lakes or trees, it's like hell.
t. British Columbia
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>>70390509
pro: infrastructure is new, population is predominantly conservative, not socialist trump conservative, actually conservative, flames are gonna be gud soon, housing is cheap, it's not close to fort mac, minimal nigger presence, minimal ghetto areas... i personally love the place.
con: boringish landscape, water supply will be an issue in the future, oil dependent economy, not so much as edmonton but still
Speaking of which, hows the market for a engineer? I want to move to BC, Victoria to be specific
>>70396935
But last I checked Vancouver and Toronto are where all the jobs are - since Alberta is getting hit with the oil market going downhill.
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>>70397252
i knew your monopoly money was worthless, but jesus christ
>>70397359
Those better fucking be heated pools. Jesus Christ, Canada.
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>>70397180
How horrible will the fallout be when the housing bubble bursts?
>>70397520
Half of them aren't.
Chinaman new to Calgary.
Why do you hate us so much?
>>70397761
Who hates you?
>>70390509
>worst aspects are of this city specifically
LITERALLY surrounded by Canadians.
>>70397761
>Chinaman new to Calgary
I'm near Toronto, is there any way I can scam welfare from the government?
>>70397822
just the general vibe i get from this thread
>>70391382
Which climate do you prefer?
>>70397955
No one hates you. Why are you so paranoid. Some of my best friends are Chinese and they are better and prouder Canadians than I am.
>>70397955
Also, fuck your feelings. I bet no one has ever been racist to you.
Calgary is bretty comfy desu
>short drive into Rockies for some of the best camping/ skiing/ beautiful outdoors shit you can get
>drive in the other direction and there are badlands and sick dinosaur shit
>pretty clean, not much crime, all the minorities stay in the NE
>most natives stay in the reserve
>pretty much the only conservative place in Canada left
>weather is crazy, experience cold hot and everything in between
>pretty dank food scene popping up
The city does have no night life and downtown shuts down at 7 but if you are just a neet that doesn't matter anyways. Oh and the economy is fucked atm cause of oil
>>70397955
"feelings" are not something you should base your opinions on.
>>70390509
We are run by a gay muslim mayor. And more and more fucking immigrants pour in every year. One of our districts voted FUCKING LIBERAL in the last election. Ask me anything about Cowgary.
>>70390679
Not broke, but a lot of people out of jobs right now.
>>70390698
Fuck that. It's god damn hot. It's been 20 all week, and it's fucking april. We had like 1 god damn day under -30 during the winter. This place is a hellhole with temperatures.
>>70390830
It's not the prairies, I grew up in the prairies. I love the prairies. Calgary is a big, busy city full of immigrants and it's always too god damn hot here.
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>>70391382
Edmonton is better then Calgary. At least they get fucking winter there.
>>70392740
It's not cold, we aren't rednecks, and the stampede is both an awesome time to get laid with all the tourist girls getting drunk, and an awesome time to sit at home watching cattle wrangling. Too fucking hot to go to it though half the days.
>>70392866
NOT FUCKING COLD
>>70393738
This dude knows it, our river is fucking shit. It's either non-existant and you can't do anything on it, or it's flooding shit.
Question to all these anons apparently living here, where exactly do you fucks live? I'm over in Aspen.
>>70397955
If you don't like the vibes here go back to Vancouver where you can smoke pot and complain about vibes like the other hippies. We're proud, Conservative people and hard workers here. Assimilate and be proud to be a Calgarian, or get out.
>>70398493
wasnt really accusing Calgarians being racists or anything, but here on /pol/ i thought i was just trying to get some honest opinions about immigrants
Good city
Moved from sw Ontario
Miss beaches
Miss trees
Mountains are close tho for #2
Last couple winters significantly easier than southern Ontario less snow and warmer
Since this is becoming Canada general, have more.
Pic related gets more scary when you put it into context:
>Canada's military spending is 1% of its GDP
>Canada's GDP is 1.827 Trillion
>Military spending is 18.2 Billion
>Proposed Budget cut for 2017-2018 is 1.319 Billion
Literally cutting a 14th off the budget in a single fell swoop. Never mind the 90 million cut the year before.
But somehow we have the money to blow 300 million on:
>expand intake of Syrian refugees
>reduce application time of Syrian refugees
>admit more Syrian refugees as permanent residents
Have some more info about our Syrian refugees:
"Most of the 21,000 refugees who have made it to our borders, were not housed in camps, they were, they had been living in theatre for a number of years, renting apartments, so I just want that for precision. They're not housed in camps administered by the UNHCR."
>Martin Bolduc, CBSA Program Branch Vice-President
Bolduc continues:
"I wouldn't be able to tell you the 21,000, how many, but very, very few came out of the camps, most of the people were already living in, in the countries where we are operating in."
And here's Liberal MP Boris Wrzesnewsky on the matter:
"Where they were actually located, whether they were in towns or actual camps, we didn't actually set goals where we're extracting refugees from. We set a goal of a certain number of refugees that we would bring in to remove the load from those frontline countries and also to help our European allies because many of those refugee camps were pretty full."
>>70398913
Dang you're in the boonies, that's barely the city. I'm in Elbow Park.
My district was the one the voted Liberal... I'm so ashamed... It's because the dude was in a wheelchair and people thought it was cute or something.
INTRODUCING A BANK RECAPITALIZATION SCHEME
"To protect canadian taxpayers in the unlikely event of a large bank failure, the government is proposing to implement bail-in regime that would reinforce that the bank shareholders and creditors are responsible for the banks risks - not the taxpayers. This would allow authorities to convert eligible long term debt of a failing systematically important bank into common shares to recapitalize the bank and allow it to remain open and operating. Such a measure is in line with international efforts to address the potential risks to the financial system and broader economy of institutions perceived as 'too-big-to-fail'.
The government is proposing to introduce framework legislation for the regime along with accompanying enhancements to Canada's bank resolution toolkit. Regulations and guidelines setting out further features of the regime will follow. This will provide stakeholders with an additional opportunity to comment on the elements of the proposed regime."
pg. 223, liberal budget 2016
>yfw when you have money in the bank - you are technically a creditor of the bank
>yfw they can take this money as they need
>yfw all they have to do is give you common shares to "pay" you back for taking your money
>>70390509
They still have dinosaurs...no really. Dinosaurs exist in Calgary and occassionally kill people. Theee is one in OP pic.
>>70390509
>unbiased input
>/pol/
>>70399250
>implying anything is immune from having a bias
>>70399025
That's really really scary.. I hate the Liberals and NDP. We are doomed to be another Hongcouverstan.
>>70397954
Not if you're white, I get 250 bucks a month it's not even worth it.
>>70396660
Lol
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Ohlyfeck m8
>>70395108
Housing is dirt cheap in Quebec because they regulate what outsiders can buy and how much of it, something we can't do in the rest of Canada.
>>70399153
>Dang you're in the boonies
I enter and leave the city every time I walk my dog.
Homeland of the only based leaf.
>>70399534
BRETT THE HITMAN HEART! His brother's funeral was right beside my place.
>>70390509
Edmonton here, I like Calgary but its feeling some economic strain right now. What are your skills? I'm a mason/bricklayer and I make $30+/hr but quite a few of my friends are unemployed. It's a GREAT place to live but I could see someone new to the province having a hard time finding work without social connections. I am doing great right now but I can attribute that to growing up here my whole life.
This is an amazing place to live but currently it is a suboptimal time to move here. This is coming from an affluent 27yo Edmontononian who has operated in commercial, residential, and industrial construction my whole life.
Who knows though you could do just fine, life's a gamble.
>>70390865
I'm from Reno and spent a couple weeks in Calgary and it was fucking miserable cold.
Makes the worst parts of a Reno winter feel like tshirt weather compared to the ass blasting cold they have.
>>70390509
Don't go there you faggot. Edmonton is better.
>>70398971
Well, you came to the wrong place for honest opinions. This is a place where you be politically incorrect, not honest.
>>70399788
Edmobro
>>70391047
Yes, pic related is 90% of calgary
>>70395108
Friends of mine are just into law graduate jobs and even they didn't give a second thought to ditch Vancouver because of the housing,
A couple went to Kelowna I think which they say is far nicer
Kensington masterrace checking in
>>70394989
dont about 32 people live there in total?
>>70399851
They both suck, dont go to either.
>>70398971
No one really cares about immigrants - if they assimilate. Canada doesn't really push that so what you get is ethnic ghettos. Take Richmond for example,
Richmond:
54.6% Chinese
26.1% Not a Visible Minority
6.1% Filipino
4.4% South Asian
2.3% Mixed Visible Minority
1.7% Japanese
1.1% Southeast Asian
0.9% Korean
0.8% Latin American
0.6% Black
0.6% West Asian
0.5% Arab
0.2% Other Visible Minority
For the record "Not a Visible Minority" means:
>persons who gave a mark-in response of "White"
>persons who reported being Aboriginal
>persons who gave mark-in responses of "White and Latin American", "White and Arab" or "White and West Asian" with no write-in response classified as visible minority
>persons who gave a mark-in response of Latin American, Arab, or West Asian only, along with a European write-in response
>persons with no mark-in response who gave a write-in response that is not classified as a visible minority
Definition of Visible Minority is:
>persons who are non-Caucasian in race
>non-white in colour
>and who do not report being Aboriginal
Do you think that is assimilated? Its not. It became a functional satellite state. There was a ruling debacle a couple of years back that signs don't need to have any english or french on them. So you get tons of mandarin and cantonese only signs. You get people who practically never needing to speak english. You get homeowners being excluded from strata council meetings because they don't speak mandarin. You get that incident a few years back where they put a ban on white people applying to work at the fire department because they wanted to restructure it to "better represent the community".
No, its not assimilated and that is what people dislike.
>>70399691
Is he the hometown hero even for non wrestling fans over there?
>>70390509
It's shit.
>Busy down town with fucked up one way roads
>Bunch of old brick buildings around downtown half are refurbed by hipster shit heads and the other half are meth houses
>Forest lawn full of niggers
>Marlboro full of chinks
>Northeast is new baghdad
>Big stupid fuckin ring road where people tail gate you when you're already driving 140/100
>Ring road not actually a ring because the fuckin indians wont let them build on "their" land
>Led by a big fat gay muslim manlet
>Nothing to do but go be the only white person at the mall
>Immigrant kids driving double the speed limit in bmws
>Chinese women trying to drive range rovers
>UofC
>Shitty river that eats drunk rafters
I'm personally thinking of moving anywhere else at this point. The NDP has the province by the fuckin balls because off all the "new canadians" Ontario fucks and union cunts in Edmonton and Calgary. The oil patch is in the shitter, all these shitty houses people built 50 years ago are worth half a million. Everything is tied to oil up here, even if your field has nothing to do with it employers are looking for reasons to get rid of people because they know they can get better employees for cheaper now that you can barely find work above minimum wage
>>70399990
How the fuck would you know you fucking retard?
>>70399848
>I'm from Reno and spent a couple weeks in Calgary and it was fucking miserable cold.
Calgary is actually rather warm, and can get huge temperature swings in winter due to a west to east air flow over the mountains that compresses and heats the air.
Literally -30C to +12C in 24hrs.
On the other hand it's a shit town that hates car for some reason, so you are forced to live around the city but not in it.
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>>70398913
>complaining about 20c in April
Fucker, it hasn't even broken 0 with the daytime highs most of the week here in Winnipeg . We're getting dicked by Hudson Bay yet again
>>70399971
Get out of my city you hippie bum hackey sackin' crashin' frashin' break dancer!
>>70399848
Again, for fucks sake, Calgary is NOT COLD. It's TOO DAMN HOT.
>>70400051
Pretty much. You have to be pretty old though. I'm 28 and he was my hero back in the day.
>>70400127
Could have been during a cold snap but I've never been anywhere that cold ever. We usually get a week or two during the winter where it's around -10F but it was so cold there your face hurt.
>>70400017
>ethnic ghettos
Is Richmond ghetto? I have been to Richmond twice in 2006 and 2010 and i remember it being quite nice. But yes i have noticed the signs even back then.
>>70399938
forgot pic lmao
>>70400218
See? THAT is a proper temperature. Drop the avg temperature of this place at least 10c and THEN you have a proper place.
>>70400317
>We usually get a week or two during the winter where it's around -10F
So you get colder weather then Calgary according to that. We get less then a week a year when it's below 0F here.
>>70400337
I'm a blonde male and I went to Richmond. I speak some Cantonese and I went to a supermarket there. They told me that I wasn't wanted there and asked why I don't go to one of my own people's stores.
>>70399901
Oh yeah! West end, moving in a month to a brand new place, there's lots of things I don't like about this city but I can't think of anywhere else I'd have it better off.
>>70400337
Its not ghetto, I was referring to its enclave nature, though in retrospect I could have used a better word.
>>70393738
I've lived in Windsor and Halifax, currently living in Calgary. It's legitimately impossible for Calgary to ever get as bad as either of those cities. Oil is a boom-bust industry, there was a boom, we happen to be in a bust. If Iran and the Saudis start getting more aggressive with each other, fuck, it's back on.
>>70400293
Neat. He deserve the status after all the shit that happened to him and Owen.
>>70400450
This summer is going to be FUCKED in Alberta, forest fires every day and massive drought crop failures, when it hits +35 it's over for me
>>70399848
It was like 27 degrees C here today. Our winter was a cakewalk compared to what those suckers out east got.
>>70400583
Fuck this place. I went and got AC when I moved down here. No other city I've ever lived in in Canada have I needed air conditioning to simply not fucking sweat in my own home.
>>70400317
Most of winter is a day time high of -10C, which is warm. But a cold snap can push it down to -40C which is dangerously cold.
Overall however Calgary is much warmer than anywhere else east of the Rockies, but west of the great lakes due to the mountain passes and the winds.
A much nicer city to live in if you're not hipster trash is Edmonton. Although it's farther away from anything but more 'park land' biome. (park land is nasty short trees and scrub brush).
The smaller towns are either overrun with Indians that are like slightly more drunk niggers, or are hub points for German Commie Christian farmers that are like Mormons that are mean to people.
>>70397531
It will be glorious.
With oil gone, our entire economy is propped up by real estate.
Construction companies, property management for foreign owners, real estate agents, companies that temporarily decorate your house with fancy furniture so you can get an extra $250,000 for it.
A homeowner thinks he's getting a good deal selling his house for $1 million, but the real-estate agent sets up three or four deals in mandarin on the same day. Hong buys the house for $1.2 million (a great deal! sold over asking!) then immediately resells it to Chang for $1.4 million, who sells it on to Zheng for $1.6 the same day. The original seller is oblivious because all the deal happens in chinese.
Of course, even if vancouver crashes to 50%, it will still be $500,000 for a rotten shitshack.
>>70400055
The Alberta NDP's approval ratings are utter shit though, everyone regretted it within a week of the election and you've already got people giving Notley death threats. People have been saying the same thing about 'new canadians' tipping the vote since the 80s, it never sticks. The PCs were running like a banana republic, they needed a hard election loss to smarten themselves up or to die and let the Wildrose take over. Either way the only thing the NDP is going to accomplish is cement another 40-50 years of one-party right wing statehood.
>fell for the NAIT meme
>oil industry collapses, graduate and can't find any jobs
>working some dead end labour job now
Is suicide the only option? Are there any trades still accepting apprentices?
>>70400752
I heard somewhere that we are going to start taxing people from other countries an extra %150 or something. Because they just buy the house and never live in it so locals can't find a place to live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67AodOb1e4
Is Murdoch Murdoch Calgarian? It seems like a weird coincidence that he'd use Calgary as a random backdrop
>>70400017
problem i'm starting to see is that the american niggers are slowly moving in.
A few of the african migrants I know have had to deal with their kids because they have started interacting with the american niggers.
All they do is bring crime and degeneracy.
I don't mind immigration but ffs i should be only once every 10 years.
>>70400218
I'll gladly trade you
I don't care if it's -40 for three months straight but when April rolls around I want some heat dammit
>>70400497
i find that hard to believe, was it old people? But i understand your outrage having that happened to you in your own country.
>>70400723
What are you talking about. Edmonton has much better "biome" then Calgary. That river valley is one of the best in north america.
And are you talking about fucking Mennonites? They are good people, they always help out and treat anyone nice as long as that person is living a good life. As in, if you're not a liberal douche with piercings or some other leftist bullshit.
>>70400723
the fuck are you talking about mennonites are great
>>70399471
>I get 250 bucks a month it's not even worth it
Damn can barely buy an ounce of some dank with that
>meanwhile 'refugees' getting $1,200+ a month & full health-care, lodging, and meals
>>70400990
Calgary gets chinook winds in the winter which warms the city. We also have Hutterites, they're basically the same deal as the Mennonites.
>>70400940
Yah the lady was old. Old angry racist Chinese supermarket lady.
>>70400808
>Is suicide the only option? Are there any trades still accepting apprentices?
Most are.
The downturn is a great culling of all the degenerates that have to get hired in boom times to meet demand. When it gets lean the worst employees go first.
But as most businesses know that it's cyclic they tend to still hire new people to train.
Clearly this depends on the trade, but even at the current oil prices I know that power engineer students are getting summer jobs that pay $25-$35 an hour. Welders are still taking in students because shit still breaks and a lot of jobs just become economical with at least two people working on it, even if one guy can't tell steel from copper.
>>70400895
But that's racist!
>>70400801
Best post ITT. Amazing how people don't think last election was anything other than a spanking for cuckservatives especially after Redford...
I still voted conservative lol I just couldn't bring myself to do anything else even not vote.
I would have voted wild Rose had Danielle Smith not been such a naïve floor-crossing cuck. Spoiled the whole party and it was a shame even though those types of parties never take off here
>>70400990
The Hudderites employ child labour so us in the city can't compete. They make really good pies though..
>>70401170
>I know that power engineer students are getting summer jobs that pay $25-$35 an hour
According to NAIT(and SAIT) students I've talked to pretty much nobody got a job unless they had family connections
>>70401179
It's not racist... It's nationalist. Which is something we need really really badly right now.
>>70401125
you'd think they'd have gotten their doctor, lawyer and engineering jobs by now
>>70401298
>tfw went to SAIT for an architectural technology program
>tfw working in an architecture office and we're still busy as ever
>>70401298
The thing about P.Eng is that you don't just go straight for the plants or patch. The degree can get you into working at hospitals/for public education etc. You've gotta get firing time before the $25-$35/hr jobs will consider you or you gotta take shit hours. Family connections does make it easier though.
>>70400990
>What are you talking about. Edmonton has much better "biome" then Calgary. That river valley is one of the best in north america.
The river valley is kinda shit, and the surrounding area is scrub trees and nasty brush. Pic related 10min outside of Edmonton.
>And are you talking about fucking Mennonites? They are good people, they always help out and treat anyone nice as long as that person is living a good life. As in, if you're not a liberal douche with piercings or some other leftist bullshit.
Hudderites.
Better than natives, muslims, niggers or the french but not great.
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>>70397359
WHAT
THE
FUCK
I knew it was bad, but holy fucking shit, how is no one seeing this as "yeah, naw, too high" and just walking away?
Why are foreigners buying them that high???
Jesus.. my dad's house, which was built with $100,000±20,000 .. would be worth tens of millions there..
Fuck..
>>70400990
I'll agree with you, that river valley is really nice and has beautiful trees.
Our smart city planner decided to build our core right on the river so that when it floods we're all screwed.
The mountains are close to us though and we have fish creek... which is now tiny and flooded with shitskins.
>>70401740
The Chinese buy them as a way of getting their money out of china. THey don't live in them, but they let them "appreciate" and then make more money when they sell them. Chances are another china man will buy it
>>70401740
Vancouver is completely cucked by the azns. I'm laughing out loud at the people in this thread complaining about Calgary having too many asian people, you guys haven't seen shit.
I mean fuck, the University of British Columbia are using student fees to fund the construction of an entire campus compound exclusively for the use of foreign asian students.
>>70401519
>You've gotta get firing time before the $25-$35/hr jobs will consider you or you gotta take shit hours.
To be certified you need the hours, all the schools have a combined lab and industry placement to make 3rd class PEs in two years.
The 25-35 an hour jobs are summer jobs for students. Everyone gets shit hours in that everyone works shift work unless you work in a shopping mall or hospital, even then for hospitals they have shift work.
You don't need to know anyone other than people you meet while on your practicum placements. The shit people sink while the everyone gets job offers.
A 3rd class PE working oil, gas or coal will start at $37 + benefits and raise to $45 in two years.
>>70401740
If you're sitting on a pile of dirty money that you need to get out of China, you'll be happy to overpay for real estate in a country that is too self-loathing to dare to enact any sort of capital controls, even if you might lose 15 to 20 percent when the market deflates.
>>70395108
That's a question even we don't have an answer to. It's all fucked up here
>>70401949
We know.. We look at you guys in horror. Sometimes I wish we would be more racist and push them out so that doesn't happen to us.
>>70402164
...on tonight's episode of Dirty Jobs
>>70401740
The home I live in was worth ~300,000 around the late 90s. The last time I looked at the property value it was bout a million.
>>70402411
you're lucky. my house started at 70k in 84. Now its work about 350k, but they are starting to build nigger/native housing close by so i can only imagine the value you going down
Heh
It's not horrible, but It's cold and lacking in personality.
Albertans are constantly rambling on about how they are better, etc. But I'm not really sold on that.
Other places are more interesting, Calgary is just a modern generic, suburban type environment.
It is marginally more conservative, but for an American, it will still be annoyingly anti-american.
Save yourself some trouble and just go to Denver or something.
>>70396871
You can buy and authentic Victorian mansion like below photos in small Town Nova Scotia for like $300,000.
You know what they say… location, location, location..
>>70404977
lol I have family members who run an optometrist office in New Glasgow, they're basically the local royalty
calgary sucks
>>70404977
>You know what they say… location, location, location..
hollywood addicted boomer detected
They are flooding alberta with muslims come to saskatoon
I hope you aren't a nigger anon.
>>70390509
Isn't that where that chick got caught on camera getting spitroasted?
>>70405376
>For a Decade of Excellence!
Christ the CPCs marketing teams sucked so fucking bad that they deserved to lose
The skywalk network looks cool, but what is the city like outside of the downtown core? Is it the suburban shithole that I imagine it to be?
>>70408681
Depends on the neighborhood. The Northwest is nice, and the further out areas can be good. I'm in Silver Springs and I haven't seen a black or chink in the neighborhood unless I head to Crowfoot.
>>70409196
Don't care about minorities, just shitty city planning.
