Calgary's Best Neighbourhoods 2010

mr.steevo · #1 Posted: **Aug 31, 2010, 5:12 PM**

Hi,

I saw this article from Aveune Magazine (July 30th, 2010) and thought I would post it.

http://www.avenuecalgary.com/article...neighbourhoods.

Rankings are as follows:

1. Elboya

2. West Hillhurst

3. Rosedale

4. Sunnyside

5. Elbow Park

6. Altadore

7. Inglewood

8. Ramsay

9. Hillhurst

10. Parkhill/Stanley Park

11. Tuscany

12. Crescent Heights

13. Shaganappi

14. Lake Bonavista

15. Edgemont

polishavenger · #2 Posted: **Aug 31, 2010, 5:21 PM**

the list is bunk, it doesnt have bridgeland on it. I'm biased because I live there, but it has to rank higher than Ramsay, Altadore, and Rosedale.

halifaxboyns · #3 Posted: **Aug 31, 2010, 6:26 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by polishavenger

the list is bunk, it doesnt have bridgeland on it. I'm biased because I live there, but it has to rank higher than Ramsay, Altadore, and Rosedale.

Elboya and Britannia are nice; but very anti-development. Trying to get a house built there is a miracle.

polishavenger · #4 Posted: **Aug 31, 2010, 7:22 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by halifaxboyns

Elboya and Britannia are nice; but very anti-development. Trying to get a house built there is a miracle.

They definitely look like the kind of communities that would like to shrink wrap everything as it is and preserve it for ever without the slightest changes.

kw5150 · #5 Posted: **Aug 31, 2010, 7:44 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr.steevo

Hi,

I saw this article from Aveune Magazine (July 30th, 2010) and thought I would post it.

http://www.avenuecalgary.com/article...neighbourhoods.

Rankings are as follows:

1. Elboya

2. West Hillhurst

3. Rosedale

4. Sunnyside

5. Elbow Park

6. Altadore

7. Inglewood

8. Ramsay

9. Hillhurst

10. Parkhill/Stanley Park

11. Tuscany

12. Crescent Heights

13. Shaganappi

14. Lake Bonavista

15. Edgemont

Best for what? Those are great neighborhoods but I think they are missing quite a few. Connaught is bloody amazing! Bridgeland is great too, it just needs a food store.

DizzyEdge · #6 Posted: **Aug 31, 2010, 8:42 PM**

Rosemont being ahead of sunnyside and hillhurst was the weirdest one. It has less interesting shops, less interesting streets to walk on, is further from downtown, and there is mention about the traffic on Memorial being a negative, but no mention of 16th ave traffic.

wmp.dll · #7 Posted: **Sep 1, 2010, 3:14 AM**

Glamorgan is the best neighborhood in Calgary, bar none.

Rusty van Reddick · #8 Posted: **Sep 1, 2010, 5:06 AM**

I was actually pleasantly surprised by the list- given who advertises in Avenue I thought all the best 'hoods would be in sprawlburbia, but almost all are inner city except for Tuscany, Lake Bonavista and Edgemont (and kudos to them for at least one, Edgemont, that is heavily non-white).

Cabbage · #9 Posted: **Sep 1, 2010, 5:58 PM**

Everytime I read comments or reports about Calgary's Best communities you never hear about Spruce Cliff, maybe it is becasue we are the smallest community in Calgary.

Here is some information about it.

- First and Last stop on the 301 when comming or heading to Downtown.
- Has a Public Libaray branch.
- 10min walk to a city pool
- 45min walk to the west end of downtown.
- 5 min walk to public golf course
- 5 min walk to Upper Edworthy Park
- 2 min walk to a mall which includes a grocery store and other services.
- Close to many bars and resturants.
- 2 schools in the area.
- Home of the Wildflower Arts Center
- Very diverse mixture of people, incomes and ethicnicity
- Amazing views of downtown the mountians and the entire river valley.
- Access to major road ways. I can be out of city in 10min.
- Good mixture of single family and multi family housing.
- Home of Calgary's Greek Festival.

And more I am forgetting.

Chris

PS. At the end of 2012 a very short walk to Calgary's first underground CTrain station.

poopysheep · #10 Posted: **Sep 28, 2010, 7:53 PM**

Those are all nice neighbourhoods but i'm disappointed that Connaught or the Beltline wasn't included. We have amazing diversity and proximity to everything... I'm totally biased since I've been living down here since the late nineties but the amount of development and improvements to livability in this area over the past decade have been huge....

tsumetai · #11 Posted: **Nov 2, 2010, 7:21 PM**

Varsity > Hamptons > Edgemont

Innersoul1 · #12 Posted: **Nov 2, 2010, 8:04 PM**

The article was actually very well done. It gave the criteria that were used to rank the 'hoods. Unfortunately, i tossed mine in the recycling last week so i can't tell you. But i am with Rusty, they certainly featured a breadth of neighbourhoods both suburban inner city.

yeeg · #13 Posted: **Nov 2, 2010, 8:54 PM**

Not sure whats so great about Tuscany but good to see its the top of the burbs...Maybe I can raise the price of my house since its in the "best burb neighbourhood"?