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Old 07-23-2009, 03:22 PM   #16
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Been in Chestermere for 3.5 years.

For a family I think it's great, there's some stuff to do but the city is still very accessible. There's parks, the lake, pathways, the arena, etc.. For a childless couple who like nights out and eating out it'll always be a trip into Calgary, but it's close enough that it doesn't feel like a big deal. I lived in Airdrie as well, and a trip into Calgary always felt much further away; Chestermere feels much closer, because it is closer to the interesting stuff.

I've also lived in Calgary in the far NE, right near downtown, in the SW by Heritage and Macleod, in the SW by Canyon Meadows Drive, and in the SW by Anderson and Elbow (and a few other places), and in Airdrie. So I know how long drives to work downtown take.

I concur that as along as you don't try to do it right at the height of rush hour, you can go from Chestermere to downtown in under 30 minutes.. I used to work at the far west end of downtown and left at 8 to get there by 8:30. There's multiple ways to do it so listening to traffic and adjusting for problems is pretty easy, even going out on 16th ave sometimes (though that would add time). I find going down 17th all the way and then onto 9th Ave worked great most mornings, that was the fastest route. But I could instead go up 68th to Memorial and take that in, or I could take 17th then get off behind the Stampede grounds onto 25th and go up Elbow, or up Macleod and then over on 11th.. so many choices it was easy to modify my path depending on the needs.

Then when I started working in the SW, it went up to about 40 minutes after the Glenmore construction was done.
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