Our city and how it is laid out not that good

Hmmm. This is an interesting question. Austin Texas, where I am, was ORIGINALLY a "planned city," laid out in a simple grid with the state capitol building at the center. All "government" was supposed to happen there, all public business was the next closest thing, & then came housing. As time went by, that went kerflooey, of course, probably mainly because Austin had no zoning laws. I THINK they still are very loose. NOW to get one's driver's license, one must drive to the northern end of town, & I don't even know exactly where the new court house is. Or the new city hall.... Fortunately, Austin isn't a HUGE city, but because it mainly spread up & down the "corridor" of I-H 35 & somewhat east (geography pushed it that way; the hills are on the west side of the highway, & the plains begin on the east side), it's a long, spaghetti noodle of a town, so my guess is it's probably just as hard in its own way to get to things as Winnipeg is. By the way, I hear Winnie's a beautiful city. True? Austin is certainly one of the prettier cities I've been in. Thanks for the interesting thread! Maggiepie

Man, that sucks. Sometimes when they try to "make" things easier, it turns out to be a big pain.

No as they have places like this al lover town and usually one close to you.

We live out in the country and everything is so far from here. the people in this town do not want anything here. We didn't know it until we moved here that there was absolutely nothing here or ever going to be here.

Wow this brought back some memories when you meationed "FilterQueen"When i was a young mother,our friend use to sell "Filter Queen vaccum cleaners...I went on several of their shows where they went to houses and showed them.I remember my living room being full of "filter Queen vaccums....They even got us into the selling..I di not see them anymore...When you said some of the streets or towns it reminded me of the old monopoly games we use to play..It has "ST James Place"Well this city( i live in Houston Texas) is so huge it is spread way out,its impossible to go anywhere close...It sounds like your city would be nice and all the towns running together as one,sounds great...

I grew up in Winnipeg so I remember when they changed it all into one big city. I was born in Winnipeg and lived there for 44 years. I then moved to Calgary for 5 years and then moved back to Winnipeg for a year and a half, then moved back to Calgary again, 7 months ago. I couldn't handle the winters in Winnipeg anymore, so I had to move back to Calgary. My whole family, except my one daughter, still live in Winnipeg. I travel back and forth a lot, about every two months, to see my family, especially my mom. Now that I live in Calgary, Winnipeg seems small. Calgary is almost twice as large as Winnipeg and the roads were not designed for so many people, and to go anywhere you have to drive through the city, where as Winnipeg has a perimeter so you can go around the city to get to another end of it. They are now building what they call here a ring road, just like the perimeter in Winnipeg, so it will get better, but it takes a long time to finish it. They have been working on it for the last two years and will not be finished for another two years. Alrighty then, talk to you later my friend. Your friend, Chris