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There is a second tier of cities in Canada with similar populations: Calgary, Ottawa and Edmonton.
In this group, IMO Calgary would rank below Ottawa, but above Edmonton.
Quebec City, which is in the tier below, might actually be above Calgary and Edmonton and be pushing Ottawa.
Other smaller cities like Halifax, Victoria and even St. John's have fairly vibrant downtowns that punch above their weight, although I am not sure I'd place them ahead of the bunch I mentioned above.
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There is a second tier of cities in Canada with similar populations: Calgary, Ottawa and Edmonton.
In this group, IMO Calgary would rank below Ottawa, but above Edmonton.
Quebec City, which is in the tier below, might actually be above Calgary and Edmonton and be pushing Ottawa.
Other smaller cities like Halifax, Victoria and even St. John's have fairly vibrant downtowns that punch above their weight, although I am not sure I'd place them ahead of the bunch I mentioned above.
I'll definitely back you up on St. John's. I walked all over that town for two days from Signal Hill, up to spending a rainy afternoon at the Rooms (Newfoundland provincial museum). Day and night, packed with local color, characters, music, great food, never difficult to find a cab, definitely the type of town to put your drinking cap on and go for a pub crawl. I don't envison downtown Calgary to be like that at all. Though I haven't been, on streetview it looks like a very 9-5'sh downtown to me, like a US Sunbelt downtown. Not surprising given how and when it developed. I'm sure there are probably festivals and such to make up for it, but downtowns in smaller cities like Quebec City and St. John's have vibrancy on the regular. Vancouver has a similar vibrancy to other West Coast cities.
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I can see this going around in circles. Best is subjective. People here automatically gravitated towards " vibrant ". While I agree it is an important component, who likes a dead downtown?... but it isn't everything.
For myself ( lol I know you all can see where I'm going with this ) I like a certain amount of vibrancy, but I also like the access to quiet natural spaces ( Stanley Park ), being able to live downtown and step within minutes on a sandy beach with amazing inspiring ever changing views of ocean and mountains.
I can walk to everything, great restaurants, theatre, cinema's parks, friends places, bars, night clubs on top of all that I listed above. To me, that makes a great downtown.
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