Following on the previous posts, some truly ugly things about Edmonton:
- urban sprawl; driving from the south end to St. Albert on the new "highway" (freaking slow), the massive new cookie-cutter suburban developments in the middle of nowhere were just disgusting to look at
- Alberta politics, but I've told everyone that while I may physically be living here, I'll politically stay living back in Ontario, and keep myself completely ignorant of what's going on here
- every main road into the city; it's visually ugly, ugly, ugly what with all the dirty, semi-industrial and low-cost commercial businesses that line these routes. A sharp contrast to some of the pretty parts along the river. Only place worse I've lived is Hamilton, where the overpowering sight of the steel plants going over the Burlington skyway eclipses what is some of the nicest geography along the Niagara escarpment
While owing to working at home I'd decided to include weather in the "bad" rather than "ugly", I think owing to a snowfall warning in late May that I'll give it an honorary "ugly" placement as well.
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