Moved to Cambrian Heights from Mount Pleasant ~2.5 years ago and never looked back.
Pros:
- Close to the in-laws (Rosedale) - by far the greatest advantage now that we have a kid
- No traffic in/out of community during rush hour. Right on all the main roads (14 street / John Laurie) so really easy and fast to go to Deerfoot or Shag or to downtown.
- 10 mins drive to DT. <15 min for both my wife and I to get to work (downtown/belt line area). Alot of shortcuts in and out of the neighborhood so even during rush hours I can be home within 15 mins
- Walking distance or <3 min drive to both Nosehill Park and Confederation Park. Bike path all the way down to the river.
- Big lots and alot of matured trees. RC1 zoned so no duplexes and the neighbourhood just feels very open. (The one thing we hated about Mount Pleasant was the density)
- Great neighbours. Either young families or retired couple, so everyone is very friendly. Everyone's a snow angel and some guy would run his snow blower up the entire block every now and then. It's so nice. I haven't had to shovel my sidewalk in over a month.
- Alot of school options for kids
- Plenty of parking when we host parties, unlike in the new communities where you can at most park 1 car between houses. including our driveway we can have 7 cars parked within our property lines.
- We chose our house specifically because it's on a uphill, so we have high fences. Between that and the matured tree , we can't see into our neighbour's backyard, which gives us alot of privacy. Also because our house is a 4 level split, our living room is slightly elevated and it's full mountain view out the windows. It doesn't feel like we are living inner city.
- We get all the restaurants on door dash / skip the dishes
- A very nice off leash park just 3 mins from our house in the Foothills Estate area, but we always feel guilty having to use the pedestrian light the stop traffic on 14 street to get over.
- There's a coin wash 2 mins away .
Cons:
- No good off leash park within the community. Too bad Confed is not off leash
- Superstore and costco is >15 mins away.
- No stores within walking distance - still have to drive everywhere to get to places Starbucks or Mcdonalds or Timmys. No neighbourhood pub within walking distance.
- Our house could be bigger since we chose location > house. We couldn't afford both.