A tiny, insignificant part of Canada that suddenly (due to it's recent oil boom) thinks it is the most cosmopolitan, hip, flourishing place to be.
While it's true that there has been a lot of economic activity since the late 90's, there are other cold facts Calgarians don't like to brag about:
- population less than 1 million (that is a small city)
- conservative politics (need I mentiond Harper?)
- completely DEAD nightlife (Electric Avenue blows)
- no diversity in employment (either you sell real estate
or you are a redneck working on the oil rigs)
- only white people live there ... i.e. no authentic
cultural experiences like food, art, social diversity
Canada has 3 important cities: Toronto, Montreal & Vancouver. There rest are strictly peripheral.
While it's true that there has been a lot of economic activity since the late 90's, there are other cold facts Calgarians don't like to brag about:
- population less than 1 million (that is a small city)
- conservative politics (need I mentiond Harper?)
- completely DEAD nightlife (Electric Avenue blows)
- no diversity in employment (either you sell real estate
or you are a redneck working on the oil rigs)
- only white people live there ... i.e. no authentic
cultural experiences like food, art, social diversity
Canada has 3 important cities: Toronto, Montreal & Vancouver. There rest are strictly peripheral.
Dude: "how was the job hunt out in Calgary?"
Bud: "great. I can live here a buy a house ..."
Dude: "what the problem then?"
Bud: "Nothing to fucking do! I'd rather get back to Vancouver or head to Toronto where there is a real night life ... this place blows dog!!!"
Bud: "great. I can live here a buy a house ..."
Dude: "what the problem then?"
Bud: "Nothing to fucking do! I'd rather get back to Vancouver or head to Toronto where there is a real night life ... this place blows dog!!!"
by Johnny-Phucker-Phaster June 2, 2006
Perhaps the City of Calgary should be called the Shitty of Calgary, or better yet, shittyofcalgary.com.
by bonnelame May 30, 2008
A complete joke of a city in western Canada. Calgary is a oil boomtown that has basically no culture or history beyond the last 50 years and this is very obvious. The downtown is a soulless collection of glass towers that turns into a ghost town at 5pm when all the yuppies hop in their 3 series and high tail it back to the endless sprawl of cardboard McMansions that envelop the place. Calgary is also rife with homelessness, drug abuse and every other social problem you can think of. Calgarians have convinced themselves they live in some kind of world class city just because they have a Nordstrom now when in reality if it wasn't for Banff no one outside the prairies would have even heard of the place.
Saskatchewanian: "I can't wait to move to Calgary next week! So excited to live that big city life!"
Torontonian: "LOL okay buddy"
Torontonian: "LOL okay buddy"
by brownbuckwass August 31, 2018
A nice city that is obsessed with Toronto. Been there for a week and I don't know what the big deal is. Boring, flat and average. Turned down a nice job because I love Toronto that much. Sorry Calgary, Toronto will always be the city where the best and the brightest go. You guys can have all the rejects from Quebec and Newfoundland.
by Toronto Man July 6, 2006
The slum of Alberta. Home to alot of sluts and metrosexuals. Everyone there says Calgary should be capital of Alberta, but its already the mullet capital of Canada.
Edmonton- Worlds largest shopping mall and indoor amusment park
Calgary- Worlds larges mullet and smelliest indoor brothel
Calgary- Worlds larges mullet and smelliest indoor brothel
by Edmon tonkixass May 27, 2005
Located in the transition zone between the foothills of the Rockies and the prairies, Calgary is a dry, treeless city where the grass is never really green. Amazingly enough, this reflects Calgary's personality perfectly.
When I was at my cousin's house in the south of the city, I walked down the path that led away from his backyard and stood on the edge of the hill. Before me was a vast exapnse of brown covered in rows upon rows of cookie-cutter suburbs with no trees. Everything was so new, so spread out and so ugly. If one said the city had a soul, this would be it.
Edmonton is well on its way to becoming like this.
When I was at my cousin's house in the south of the city, I walked down the path that led away from his backyard and stood on the edge of the hill. Before me was a vast exapnse of brown covered in rows upon rows of cookie-cutter suburbs with no trees. Everything was so new, so spread out and so ugly. If one said the city had a soul, this would be it.
Edmonton is well on its way to becoming like this.
There is nothing to which to compare Calgary, at least not that I know of. Its lifelessness is one of a kind.
by Colonel Graff June 18, 2009
by Cuntasorus September 16, 2018