I lived in Calgary while I went to college and I made so many friends with zero effort. I thought that the huge transient population was kind of cool. I live on vancouver island now and connecting with people here is almost impossible by comparison
I’m in Victoria, too. 8 years here and not much of a friend group even with such like minded people at work.
I feel like Victoria is maybe the best city in all of NA but man the vibes here are strange. Go out west into the woods and it just gets weirder. I have stories and those woods breathe evil I swear.
My gf moved here less than a year ago from mainland and she can’t believe how strange and different people are on the island compared. There’s also that weird group of people who never seem to leave victoria and they have such an incredibly narrow minded view of everything. My manager at work was born in victoria and the furthest place he’s been on the island is point no point. Wtf.
Strange. I lived in both Calgary and Edmonton and didn’t notice much of a difference in how people treated me between the two. I worked as a carpenter in both places.
Why Calgary? One of the nicest large cities I’ve spent time in.
Stampede is bad energy though.
What about Deadmonton, especially the last 10 years? It’s like a giant liminal space
It’s the people. Calgary is a beautiful city (but built in a very exposed flood plain), but the people are really ugly (on the inside).
In comparison, Edmonton looks ugly on the outside, but the people are beautiful (on the inside).
Someone explained it to me once and it made a lot of sense.
Calgary = White collar, free lunch
Edmonton = Blue collar, load the truck.
Calgary has no soul, and Stampede is a straight-up alcohol-fueled rape-fest.
I lived in Calgary while I went to college and I made so many friends with zero effort. I thought that the huge transient population was kind of cool. I live on vancouver island now and connecting with people here is almost impossible by comparison
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I’m in Victoria, too. 8 years here and not much of a friend group even with such like minded people at work.
I feel like Victoria is maybe the best city in all of NA but man the vibes here are strange. Go out west into the woods and it just gets weirder. I have stories and those woods breathe evil I swear.
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My gf moved here less than a year ago from mainland and she can’t believe how strange and different people are on the island compared. There’s also that weird group of people who never seem to leave victoria and they have such an incredibly narrow minded view of everything. My manager at work was born in victoria and the furthest place he’s been on the island is point no point. Wtf.
Strange. I lived in both Calgary and Edmonton and didn’t notice much of a difference in how people treated me between the two. I worked as a carpenter in both places.