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Originally Posted by Rusty van Reddick
We're amazing.
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Originally Posted by Calgarian
Glad to see Calgary moving up in these rankings. I wonder where we would fall if we had a warmer climate...
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I'm from Vancouver, and I agree that Calgary is amazing. "The Little City that COULD !!"
Several points,: if Calgary had a warmer climate, it would be up around Melbourne and Vancouver.
Secondly, I think that Calgary, now a small but financially powerful city, combined with Vancouver (where shale gas companies are moving to in number), and with Edmonton as an adjunct, are providing a "counterweight" to Eastern Canada.
Sure, none of us will ever outweigh Toronto, even all three cities combined, but it's great to see Calgary-Tokyo nonstops, CP Head Office in Calgary, and the West in general gaining financial strength and influence.
For so many decades, Western Canada was just "the boonies," a hinterland for Toronto, and to a lesser extent, Montreal.
That's starting to tilt westward little by little, giving more equilibrium to the country.
Providing people aren't forced out of their apartments by massive rent increases (and yes, I think social safeguards are important, like the pay what you earn system in Toronto), Canada is on the way to becoming a more level playing field, geo-economically.