Future Canadian Skylines

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by Daveography

^ For me it's not so much the Edmonton-Calgary rivalry, as how often someone just feels the need to randomly remind us after that one brief visit that yes, we still have a lot of parking lots downtown, or yes, our China Gate doesn't lead to our actual Chinatown, or yes, our downtown isn't bursting with urbanity. As though we don't already know these things or that they haven't been changing and continue to change.

Pro tip: You're not being being helpful, you're being condescending.

It's especially frustrating because those of us who live here know how bad it was in the past, and how much better it has become, and how many more good things are coming. But despite that, and our attempts to share what we know with our fellow forumers, folks still like to constantly remind us of that one time they visited and saw parking lots.

(Thanks! We didn't know about those parking lots! We'll get right on that for you!)

I wasn't trying to say anything bad. I was trying to talk about how there's so much good, it's just odd for a city to swing between some of the best and some of the worst in a single block. I think Hamilton is the only city close to Edmonton for jarring shifts in urbanity. Both cities have great skeletons, but need more meat on their bones.