Calgary concentrates it's scum in a few isolated areas whereas Edmonton seems to have them spread out all over. Conventional and smartest wisdom is to stay out of northeast Calgary, parts of the southeast, and certainly out of downtown after dark. I remember one dude I worked on a project up north who was from Edmonton who said, that except for the mega-rich districts, there weren't any good neighbourhoods there, that you'd have one good street and across the alley there'd be a street full of crackhouses. One labourer on the same project even got mugged by some junkie right outside the Coliseum after a hockey when he went home on break. Fucker put a blade right up against homies throat and took his cash and cards from him.
I lived in Edmonton up until 1976 when Dad got transferred to Calgary. I drove by the old house a few times on my way back and forth from Fort McMeth over the last few years. Seemed really nice in my childhood memory, but now our old house looks like the epicentre of some major TNB. All the other houses on the block looked great, like they belonged in a great district anywhere in North America. Our old house though? Looked more like it belonged in fucking Baltimore or Detoilet.
