venice

The Venice on Florida's gulf coast is an ultra quiet community where the large majority of people are retired. A great place to just relax, knowing that you can leave a bike on your front lawn seconds from the beach and not have it stolen. It's the stereotype of Florida.

Its has italianate architecture and there are indeed numerous canals in the subdivisions. There are galleries downtown, but they are hardly iconoclastic. Everything is clean and orderly, brought back to a messy reality if only by the couple of poor houses by I-75 and the fact that the 9/11 terrorists learned to fly planes here.

For a faster pace seek Sarasota.

"One day when I will be too old for spring break, I'll spend my 7 days of vacation in Venice. I want to retire there"

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calgary

A sterile, livable and modest Canadian city, with professional sports teams for entertainment. A stone's throw from the Rockies, but that doesn't actually affect the quality of the city.
It's not even close to a "world city", but Calgary has the most potential to grow of any Canadian city. With the oil economy, the imigrants are coming from across the globe and local art scenes will develop.
A city with some minority of fanatics that really like to insult Toronto for no apparent reason. But they are not the voice of the city.

Calgarian: "Fuck Toronto, those pakis and gangster wannabes can stay where they are. Calgary is so much better, we have the stampede."

Torontonian: "Calgary's pretty cool, I love Banff and the Rockies. Last time I was there I missed the stampede by a couple of days, and didn't really do anything memorable. Stop talking bullshit about my hometown! It's a lot more dynamic in the arts, dining, diversity and the neighbourhoods. If crime gets worse and the city becomes dirtier, I'll consider Calgary, but we've got some unique ideas. Watch out."

Calgarian: "I suppose I've never lived back east, I don't really know. Mind you, I don't have much to complain about either."

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