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It just doesn't have snow (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I live in Calgary. The 3 things Calgarians will invariably tell you are: 1) Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed. 2) Tennessee barbeque is the greatest. 3) it gets to -40, but it's not so bad because it's dry cold.

Only one of those is unconditionally true.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)
  1. Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed

is it this one?

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Yup. They used it as an impetus to build public transportation infrastructure, turned the Olympic complex into a winter sporting area, and the athlete dorms into student/affordable housing.

Since then, public transportation has turned to dog shit for most of the city, but it works well for me. Plenty of people still use the winter sporting infrastructure (I think), and housing still exists even if everything around those areas are getting gentrified, which somewhat of a universal truth.