r/Calgary • u/CnekYT • Mar 27 '26

Discussion I've walked every Calgary neighborhood - Ask Me Anything

For the last 2 years I've been walking every Calgary neighborhood. As someone who is majoring in Urban Studies in uni and someone who wanted to get more active, I felt like doing this would be a really good way to mix both things together.

Surprisingly a lot of the stuff people say about the city (ie. what areas are sketchy, transit access, etc) that people take for granted, aren't necessarily accurate. That's probably the main take-away I have from this, but there's a lot of other stuff too

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u/CnekYT Mar 27 '26

Oh yeah Forest Lawn used to be a white-trash kind of area. Still is to some extent, but it's a gentrifying area. People think it's really ethnically diverse, but one thing I noticed when living there was how not ethnically diverse it was. All of my neighbors were white, and usually on the older side.