This is, perhaps, not fair, since I've only been in C town for 2 months and lived in E town for... 10 years (yes, it had been that long).

I can't seem to understand why ppl often said Calgary is a better city. It is a bigger city, perhaps, but not really better, from what I can tell. It is closer to the mountains, yes, but that's the location, nothing to do with the city itself... I mean, a garbage can on the mountain in theory has a even better location, but you can't say that's a better place to live.

A friend asked of my opinion of the city... I told him it doesn't really have much character. It is close to the mountain, it looks nicer, it has jobs/money, that's the main reason why ppl (including me) are here, but doesn't have a lot of soul, nor trees. Bus service is a joke and traffic is terrible. When I listen to the local news, shootings were reported about 4/7 nights. (I was at first confused about how E town beat it to be the murder capital, then I realize stabbings can be more deadly than shootings.) The biggest festival in this city is about a bunch of cowbows showing off what they can do with cows/bulls... The summer festivals in the other? Street performance. Fringe. Heritage day.

I still don't get it. I realized a lot of my complaints are common themes in big cities, but me not getting it is not solely because I tend to like smaller cities.. For example, I might not want to live in HK, but I won't say it has no character nor culture, you know what I mean?

And you know what really triggered this rant? The UofC has so little books compared to UofA I stopped my search midway to check if they actually have an arts department (what would they read)? I suppose "better" means different things to different ppl, but in my books it is definitely not equivalent to "richer"(coming from the research hippie, I can almost see my bro scowling at me if I had said this to him). Yes, that is absolutely because I am not filthy rich yet.