by gookie
China town Calgary is kinda weak, nothing like T. china town if you're expecting anything. Just the usual few bbq shops and a cultural centers, barber shops and some random stores, maybe 1 or 2 decent sized indoor "mall" with bakery, dvd stores and the usual restaurant. Kinda like the size of leslie and finch i'd say... Food is crappy and expensive... you'd be spending alot more for a meal compared to Toronto for sure. If you eat or make chinese food alot, live near the T&Ts, there's 2 of them in Calgary, and they're both in the NE, the one near the LRT line is at Marlborough station, the other one is inaccessible by transit because it's in the newer district. But, the newer one is waaaay bigger and better stocked compared to the Marlborough T&T. That area is pretty new, maybe 5years or less... There's a bunch of viets who live in the NE near the Marlborough area, so there are alot of Vietnamese food in that vicinity, but it's kinda ghetto in that area because it's kind of old, and when you have black, viet, brown together, you'd get alot of gang violence. Just last year, there was some gang related accident that happened at this pho place near Marlborough, and some gang did a drive-by... Housing is expensive because... Calgary is just an expensive city in general. I would say minimum 500+/month for a room in decent areas. 1 bedroom bachelor apartment would probably somewhere near the 1000 depending on the area. I lived in the ghetto when I was there, and it still cost me ~500 a month util included. The transit system is different with TTC, people in Calgary would try to live outside of city, and drive to a LRT station and take the LRT to work. In winter it gets real cold, nothing like Toronto weather. It's not wet like Toronto snow, and when it's windy, you'd better cover up because you'll seriously get frostbite. You'll get used to it because you'll learn to enjoy it once you hit the slopes. But there are chinooks that comes every so often and it'll be...
13.07.10
Calgarians are spending time on hold with insurance brokers and filling out claims one day after an intense hailstorm damaged vehicles and property.
Golf-ball sized hail pelted parts of the city on Monday afternoon, denting vehicles and even cracking windshields.
"We've got hundreds of dents, a couple spider cracks on the windshield and the back window is sitting in the back seat," said DJ Kelly of his car.
Yuval Kordov found out on Tuesday that fixing the dents on his customized Volvo and replacing the windshield will cost $2,500.
"Yeah, this is my baby, and I'm a bit worried about it not seeming new anymore but that's life," he said.
The Dent Clinic in southeast Calgary has been getting a steady stream of phone calls and customers.
"The phones started ringing before the hail even stopped," said owner Mark Armstrong.
While most residential policies cover hail damage, vehicle coverage depends on each driver's plan, said Glen Labelle, an independent insurance adjuster in Calgary.
Source: CBC.ca
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