Calgary - Texas North?

[RWin]

First of all, I don't think so. That's not my experience anyway.

But then I'm just an average middle class, middle age, married, white guy with a couple of kids living in an average neighbourhood. So from my point of view all is good with the city. Except of course the first world problems I experience like piles of snow and ice everywhere and switch problems on the CTrain.

This forum has members from all sorts of backgrounds and from everything you all say, it's not only my experience that Calgary is a great place to live.

So it pisses me off when I read or hear things like Calgary is a backwards, conservative, racist, homophobic, name your favourite stereotype sort of place (not ranting because of anything I heard here - another forum). Most of it seem to be from people who have never been here.

But there are a few who are here and have that opinion. I suppose a bad experience will trump any sort of real evidence to the contrary. And I don't really want to argue with someone who's mind will never be changed. So usually I just ignore it.

Rant over.

So how do you deal with it? For obvious reasons this is here and not in the Canada section.