WHY DOESNT ANYONE GO TO EDMONTON

Visitors from the UK tend to go to Vancouver and the Rockies most, followed by the Great Lakes cities next, the maritimes last and the interior of Canada between Lake Superior and the Rockies not at all. In fact, prior to visiting Canada in June 2000, when I told friends that I was going they always asked "What to the Rockies?" or "to British Columbia?" and was quite surprised to hear that I was visiting Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. I think from a British perspective, it is a mixture of ignorance on the part of individuals and prejudice on the part of travel companies which ensures that no- one from the UK sets foot in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba unless they have frineds or relatives there or go there on business.

Perhaps they were trying to set up a "Jamaica? No, she came of her own accord" joke for you. I can't think of a punchline though. Incidentally, I thought of another one the other day:

"My wife and I went to a casino in the south of France"

"Toulouse?"

"No, you idiot"

No, actually nothing personal at all. The linguistic point just flitted into my idle thoughts, that's all.

err dunedin is fucking cold and neds coming here so there.

maybe so, but Britons are really in no position to drawn attn to the ridiculous nature of other countries licensing laws ;-)

it'll be cool to see 10 YEARS PASS above this post.

i'm going to edmonton btw. what's cool there?

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currently reading alchemists of kush:
5 percenter numerology (whole book is allegory of creation of nation of gods and earths) + sudanese lostboys +
afrocentric scifi
set in edmonton (mostly the eastside, 112th/107th/118th aves, var LRT stations) and AFRICA

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thanks. i like seeing other places.

i spent an hour in edmonton in 1993, driving around, coming down from acid. haven't been back but wouldn't mind.

those photos are sweet. lol at the british symposium on the prairies upthread

i'm going to drive the cowboy trail (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Highway_22 heard it's beautiful) + grizzly trail (start of klondike trail north, love seeing the signs for the alaska highway when you turn off the yellowhead, god i could drive all the way to alaska! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Highway_33)

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i'm with you, anthony
why doesn't anyone go to edmonton?

It's far from anywhere but Calgary
There isn't enough to do to make it worth going for more than a couple of days unless you have friends/family there
It's difficult to travel around without a car
Surrounding terrain and towns are mostly uninteresting

OTOH:
Waterpark
Summer festivals
Amaaaaazing river valley and parks
Muttart conservatory & devonian gardens
Some of the best warm summer nights ever

don't get me wrong, I spent most of my life there and I'm very fond of it, I would just struggle to try to sell it as a worthwhile tourist destination for most people

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great phots dylan, & yours, sals

edmonton, my home for most of the last six years, meets these goals admirably. we are slowly turning this city into the culture capital of middle-canada, and soon even vancouverites will move here for its "realness" and "energy" (edmonton will be to vancouver as brighton is to london).

this is the most vital city in canada right now. i wouldn't want to live anywhere else because i would be afraid of missing something tremendously important. as a friend said to me recently "something fucking weird is happening in this town." i would tend to agree.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:55 (10 years ago)

that dude lives in montreal now iirc, and hates it so go figure

i was wondering if any current ilxers live in edmonton.

even if it's not the most vital city in canada right now, it's close and the cost of living-vitality balance seems acceptable to me. negatives: moving from one part of the city to another requires a 20-40 minute drive or an hour or two on public transit.

girl i'm seeing is from edmonton, she went home for christmas and got punched in the face in broad daylight at 5 pm by a middle aged white woman

I'd love to visit Edmonton. But everyone I've talked to about it always questions what there really is to do there. Unfortunately, it has a reputation for being a city with a high crime rate, which I don't know if that's true or not. Plus, desolation and the tar sands, even though they're far away from it. And as a Vancouverite, Edmonton Oilers, which is not a good thing.

I kind of like Cadence Weapon.

he also lives in mtl now

Crime rates in Edmonton are above average for Canadian cities – although slightly lower than Vancouver, it is approximately 50% higher than Calgary and Montreal and has over double the crime rate of Toronto.

if anyone wants to get drunk and go to encore with me, hit me up