I've posted on this topic before over the years, but my wife and I considered applying for Provincial Nomination back in the mid 2000's. We drove from Quebec to Alberta to check things out, but once we arrived in Calgary we were met with the most putrid, arrogant, passive-aggressive assholes on the planet, and I have been around the block a few times. The more I saw of them, Québécois excepted, the less I liked Canadians. South Americans, Europeans, Arabs, they all have quirks and cultural aspects, for better or worse, but holy fuck the NPC's in Calgary just made me wish for mushroom clouds. I knew back then the entrenched idiocy would lead to the eventual decline of Canada, but it seems it is unfolding faster than expected. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of fucking faggots. Day of the rake can't come soon enough.
Calgary's ghost mall
The biggest problem facing the People's Republic of China today is that they have about a billion uneducated rural hicks and they're building a massive consumer economy faster than they can turn these hillbillies into consumers.
Building ghost cities generates a ton of unskilled labor, brings people into and familiarizes them with metro areas, creates infrastructure for even more hillbillies, and puts some money in their pockets which then invest back into the economy, becoming consumers.
Not a bad plan, really.
Your country on globalism.
Calgary is broken down into 4 quads, NW, NE, SW, and SE. These are huge areas obviously and pretty distinct in that other than going downtown for certain things or the airport, you never venture outside your area. They're also very demographically different. For example, the sw is by far the whitest and wealthiest and the NE is where all the immigrants particularly the muds and SE Asians and lesser niggers live. I'd guess this is because it's close to the airport and low tier manufacturing parks (not oilfield or cars think food and retail warehousing) where they all work. This mall is so far NE it's not even in the city and it was designed as some 21st century bazaar. The hope was that Nang Fang would open her iphone screen repair store and mohammed would sell knockoff gucci bags and cheap cologne. The fact it's performing so poorly just confirms the reality for non whites; if you build it they won't come, unless it's free.
spooky stuff
What the difference between a bot and an NPC?
Pretty amusing, most legit developers won't break ground unless they have ink dried on at least 50% of space occupied by legit national tenants. You don't build a mall without tenants, at the very least the anchors must be in place. WTF canada?