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Originally Posted by Boblobla
Perhaps some of the Edmontonians here can answer this. Do St. Albert and Sherwood Park get hated on as much for being leeches like Airdrie and Okotoks do?
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Having used to live there, its much worse up there and its much more obvious there. People move to Sherwood Park because of the considerable lower property tax. IMO Deerfoot Trail would be easily manageable if it wasnt for the "other communities"
Sherwood Park (a community of close of over 60,000) is considered a legal hamlet there by not having to pay as much to the province in taxes etc. The county of Strathcona (where Sherwood Park is located) also has ownership of Alberta's biggest scam where all those "dirty" oil refineries pay tax to the county of Strathcona and not the City of Edmonton.
Edmonton has started to fight back a little, Edmonton refused to pay for the upgrades to St Albert Trail forcing St Albert to pay for it for its citizens to drive in.
I still think toll roads are the way to go to fix the imbalances. Everyone who lives in Calgary gets a free pass, everyone else pays.