I used to visit Edmonton often, and for the warm half of the year, it's just a more livable city than Calgary. Edmonton has actually walkable communities, a sense of genuine hospitality and a constant barrage of festivals. The Folk Music festival is a world class music festival (for the best experience, get on a volunteer crew, they treat you super well). There's plenty of other good music festivals though, like interstellar rodeo (not at all a Country Music festival), and Up+Downdown. Fringe is fantastic. Fort Edmonton is a fun outing if you dig history.
If you do locate up here though, get a group together and learn a couple of winter sports. Once I started snowboarding and snowshoeing, I really started to look forward to winter.
I used to visit Edmonton often, and for the warm half of the year, it's just a more livable city than Calgary. Edmonton has actually walkable communities, a sense of genuine hospitality and a constant barrage of festivals. The Folk Music festival is a world class music festival (for the best experience, get on a volunteer crew, they treat you super well). There's plenty of other good music festivals though, like interstellar rodeo (not at all a Country Music festival), and Up+Downdown. Fringe is fantastic. Fort Edmonton is a fun outing if you dig history.
If you do locate up here though, get a group together and learn a couple of winter sports. Once I started snowboarding and snowshoeing, I really started to look forward to winter.