[salmonfella]

Hey lads making the big move to Calgary in the next few weeks from Ireland. Just wondering how ye rate this city overall?. I plan on making this a long term stay or at least where i can be based of .I will be moving from a small town of 2000 people so to me Calgary will be huge

How are the women do they keep to themselves or are they open for chat and easy to get on with(into bed)? How is the nightlife i hear it can vary, some people say its great others not so much? where are the spots to go to? also where should one base themselves to live?I am 23 and heading to Calgary solo.I have been looking into Bankview, Killarney, any other areas?
Thanks to all in advance.
Ross

[TheSlayer]

I am from Toronto and have a friend who lives there. I went there last year for a vacation. The girls are abundant and I would say the quality was definitely decent. One of the problems with Calgary is that even though it is expanding economically and wants to become the next big metropolitan in Canada, you can tell the city is not ready for it. As bad as Toronto's transit is, Calgary's is even worse.

The girls are definitely easier to open as compared to Toronto and the nightlife can be a hit or miss. Some places has good male:female ratios and some places were absolute cockfests. We went to Cowboys a lot which was a good venue (at least during the time I was there). I can't remember the other clubs/bars by name. Can't really help you much with the what areas to move into.

The weather there is good during the summers but brutal in the winter just so you know.

[BIGINJAPAN]

I am in Calgary right now. Great city to make money. If you like skiing and snowboarding it is also great as the rocky mountains are 45 minutes away. I hate the winters here, although they aren't as bad as the other provinces. There are days the temperature will climb to 15 celsius and then 2 days later it will be -20. Also it is dry as fuck here. Your skin will probably crack and your lips will fall off as soon as you step out of the airport.

As for the women, I would say Calgary has the 2nd hottest group of women in Canada. I spend ample time in every Canadian city and I think Calgary has a great pool of women. Most of them though are being spoiled because there are a lot of men here that make a lot of money and are all chumps. It can work out in your favor though as men will buy you a beer just for being at the bar when they are ordering. The women will think you stand out if you don't treat them like gods gift to me. I see it every time I go out, guys buying a ton of drinks for bitches and then they leave empty handed. Happens to my friends all the time as well. Calgary women are also easy. A lot like to go out get drunk and then get fucked. I couldn't even guess how many one nighters I have had with 7's and above.

As for places to go and what to wear. It all depends on your crowd. There is a huge demographic of young guys that work downtown and make huge coin and wear suits when they go out. But at the same time we have plenty of guys that go super causual and do just as well with the women. I am 31 and I do both. The past week I went out a few times and I was suited up or blazer with v neck and shirt. The week before that I went out with my ripped jeans, tshirt, sneakers and yankee hat. A lot of places have a pretty lacks dress code so you can go in wearing whatever you want. I was at a club on saturday all done up, but there were plenty of punks in there with sideways hats, skate shoes and baggy jeans.

Pubs to check out as follows: craft, national, jamesons, 1410, Joey's ( which is a restaurant chain) but downtown is a good time and they have super hot waitresses. Been pulling them out for years now.
Night Clubs: Black betty, olives, cowboys, the met (if you like cougars), Vinyl(for the 18-19 year old girls), and the back alley if you like heavy metal and rock. I go there once and awhile and I love it. A lot of real freaks in there but smoking hot bitches and probably the hottest bar staff in the city.

The places you listed to live are good areas. Bankview is a 2 minute walk to 17th ave, where most of the pubs and restaurants are. I have lived in Bankview and will probably end up in the area again. Killarney is also a good choice. There is no access to the train though from those areas. Good to have a a bus pass or a vehicle for those cold days. Bankview is 10 -15 minute walk to the core of downtown. Killarney would be a 30 hour walk. Other areas to look into are sunalta, connaught, mission, lower mount royal and marda loop. These areas are all waking distance to all the fun stuff in Calgary. Not to mention a ton of single girls live in the area.

Actually I forgot that they opened up the new rail line that runs west of downtown, so I guess you could walk to the train station from bankview, sunalta, killarney. It would be at least 10 minutes though. But it runs right downtown.

[el mechanico]

Why did you rate your own thread 2 stars? Were you anticipating it to be ok but nothing spectacular? You know threads get derailed here and anything could happen right?

[salmonfella]

Don't actually know why i did was only my second thread so still learning:/..
Thanks to all for the messages so far very grateful and its a big help
Ross.

[S_tourist]

Sounds like we should do a Calgary meet up some time in the near future, I am also in Calgary...

[NFallin]

Another Calgarian.

@BIG in Japan: Great post, even being here for 5 years I learned a bit from your post. Thanks.

[rudebwoy]

Calgary never gets a bad rap, only for the weather.

[Emancipator]

Would any of you guys recommend UCAL?

[thegmanifesto]

(01-23-2013 04:45 PM)BIGINJAPAN Wrote:  

As for the women, I would say Calgary has the 2nd hottest group of women in Canada.

What is #1?

[NFallin]

(01-24-2013 11:40 PM)Emancipator Wrote:  

Would any of you guys recommend UCAL?

For what kind of study and what would your living arrangements be like?

[Emancipator]

(01-25-2013 02:04 AM)NFallin Wrote:  

(01-24-2013 11:40 PM)Emancipator Wrote:  

Would any of you guys recommend UCAL?

For what kind of study and what would your living arrangements be like?

Probably something in Enviro Design, Business or Arts

I would either be in a student/shared or renting a small studio/bachelor space.

Probably close to transit as I don't drive.

[kosko]

(01-24-2013 11:42 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(01-23-2013 04:45 PM)BIGINJAPAN Wrote:  

As for the women, I would say Calgary has the 2nd hottest group of women in Canada.

What is #1?

Montreal.

I agree Calgary women are nice. I am balkish on them a tad because I grew up in those parts and Calgary has a truck load of weird broads from Manitoba and Saskatchewan and that influx of frumpyness diluted the pool in Calgary a bit. To me Calgary is full of blue-blood Canadian white girls, while Edmonton has way more hot immigrint girls from Chile, El Salvador, Eastern Europe, Asia, East Africa. Aside from the frumpies from Manitoba and Sask if your keen on the fair skinned and blonde White girls Calgary has the best. also there are a lot of hot East Indian and Asian broads there too I find. I got nowhere with the Indo-Canadian girls there and a lot were hawkish and racist to me at times - way more hostile then Toronto with those types of girls I found.

I recommend the Commonwealth Bar when I was in Calgary last people were telling me the venue was "new" but I guess now that its a year old. I went there two nights in a row and I pulled once and got makeouts abound regardless. I liked the venue because it had like 5 different areas which all felt like different bars. You had a lounge, a 'club', more little lounges and shit it was nice. Caveman game worked wonders for me, I know how these Prairies girls roll so I find you match their energy and get sloppy with them and you will be in for a good time. Also BIGINJAPANs words on logistics/location is key. I got cockblock a bunch of times because the place I was staying was all the way the fuck out in SE - Nobody wanted to fuck with that area. I had bitches laughing at me because they thought I was insane trying to get them to come out that way even though they were down. Get your logistics in order and either get a car or be right by the C-Train with Work-home-play all being routed as best as possible along the train route. Calgary is almost the same size (space wise: CGY:726.5 km²; NYC:784 km2 ) as New York City so that gives you an idea of how vast the City land space is. You can spend what feels like hours driving from one of the City to the other (the long way).

If you like Asian chics hit up V Lounge on Stephen Ave. It's like 98.7% Asian there each night. I was pretty much the non-Asian there one night and I used it to my advantage going after anything that gave me a look. I had to fend off a shit ton of cockblocks but once evreybody is drunk just start buying shots for random dudes and you will defuse shit fast (and get them drunk) so they ain't trying to cut down your game.

I'd live in Calgary to stack money and that's it right now. Its still a City that needs a lot of growing up to do but its the type of place that in good time will put Toronto to shame. Only thing that holds Montreal back is money and Calgary has a shit ton of it so all it needs is time to grow up and mature a bit and get its Vibe on lock.

Toronto has money and a vibe but has no balls... Montreal has its balls and it's vibe but no money... Vancouver has its vibe on lock but no (real) money and no balls. Lastly, Calgary has balls and money but just needs to get it's vibe going ... make sense?

Its still a nerdy work town with a ton of rednecks... it needs to drop that (well, not the rednecks but the nerdy work culture of it).

[salmonfella]

Kosko great post dude i have them places you mentioned taken down.thanks to all for the advice much appreciated!

[BIGINJAPAN]

Yeah commonwealth can be a good time. Hit or miss of course due to the recent infiltration of hipster nation.

For everyone else wondering, Kosko answered it and I confer that Montreal is obviously numero uno for girls. Due to are high influx of prairie girls from other provinces it really waters down the talent. None the less most are approachable and friendly. The newfie's are always down to drink and fuck. If you want to bang a pale skinned, thin lipped broad just hit the ship and anchor on 17th ave.

Personally I don't like hitting up V-bar for the exact reason Kosko mentioned, the asians. Just like any city we have a small gang population. Are asian gangs are quite laughable really. They date back to the late 90's from 2 different groups of high school kids. Get this, their names are as follows, FOB's and FOB killers. Most of the FOB's are dead now and the FOB killers are mostly in jail. The problem with the asian gangs unlike the rest is, they are the ones who are more likely to stab you when you aren't looking for looking at one of their girls. They are gutless little faggots and every once and awhile you hear about an innocent guy getting knifed because he bumped one of them or talked to one of their girls. So I just avoid it all together.

I forgot to mention the club West earlier. It is located on stephen ave (8th ave downtown). Anyways place sucks in the winter, but in the summer they have a massive, I mean massive outdoor rooftop patio. Huge dance floor and plenty of places to sit or lean up against and watch some dirty whores bump and grind on each other. I really recommend that place in the summer. Hell I have showed up at noon to have a few drinks at lunch with a few friends and next thing you know it's last call.

Also Craft, which I mentioned earlier has been building a massive rooftop patio as well. Could be unreal when it is ready this summer.

[salmonfella]

Cheers for all the comments was not expecting so many think i will avoid v-bar last thing i want in a new country not knowing anybody is trouble.thanks to all and we should deffo organize a Calgary meet in the summer

I also see there is a lot of universitys/colleges in Calgary does this make the city more of a student city? or where do they hang out?

[BIGINJAPAN]

U of C and SAIT students have easy access to the train and get downtown in minutes. Mount Royal University although not far from the city center is nowhere near a train line. So they tend to stay out in that area.

I find Calgary to be the land of single 25-45 year olds more than a student city. If you want a college town and nothing else, Lethbridge which is a couple hours south is nothing but a college party 8 months out of the year.

[NFallin]

(01-25-2013 03:23 AM)Emancipator Wrote:  

(01-25-2013 02:04 AM)NFallin Wrote:  

(01-24-2013 11:40 PM)Emancipator Wrote:  

Would any of you guys recommend UCAL?

For what kind of study and what would your living arrangements be like?

Probably something in Enviro Design, Business or Arts

I would either be in a student/shared or renting a small studio/bachelor space.

Probably close to transit as I don't drive.

As far as the campus goes it is a major commuter school with people coming in everyday off the train or driving in the morning. A lot of people peace out at the end of the day. There isn't much of a school pride sort of attitude at u of c. They pretty much give away tickets for football events. However there is a fair amount of multiculturalism.

The bar called the Den on campus is good and a lot of fun but the ratio is generally bad. Thursday is the night to go for triples. You get really fucked up and grind up on a girl who is as equally trashed as you. But you gotta get in early or else you are waiting in line forever!

I didn't live in residence on campus but with some guys near the university and we had a lot of fun with kegger parties but at times we wished we were in residence because we heard a lot of guys were cleaning up there in first and second year.

The haskayne school of business churns out a lot of accountants. with some trickling into banking, marketing, and other random areas. it has a pretty good reputation and is challenging in its coursework. The arts program is just like every other uni with limited opportunities once you grad and decent profs if you want to learn some shit. The history department was especially good. Can't speak about the enviromental design area, but the engineering department is great since this is white collar oil and gas territory. I know a few guys that went into chemical and mechanical and they are doing quite well. Tough coursework though.

I would say that if you are coming to alberta for the opportunities right now and like calgary, go to u of c. However I actually like U of A better (spent some time there because of an exgf) since it is actually close to some night life (whyte ave), and it's seen as a more "prestigious" school.

But just like the hodgetwins......this is just advice....do w/e the fuck you wanna do!

[Atlantic]

This is sounding great, Im based in Etown right now but I'm looking at moving down there in the next few months for sure.

I have only been there once for a few days so far. Really liked the place. Didn't pull but a lot of hot girls around and more to do in general than Edmonton. Plus baniff is only an hour away.

[salmonfella]

Yea baniff is major draw for me to irishman have been in touch with a few of the big electrical company's and it seems there is plenty of work to be had in the downtown commercial sector. seems to be a lot of new buildings going up which is great to hear. seems to be plenty of Irish there aswell. i would be a big fan of fishing hence my name so it seems a good bit to be had to. seems like an overall better choice for me city wise and its good to hear the women are 2nd hottest group of women in Canada. sure i might see ya on our travels for a beoir or dó. go léir is fearr agus Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig