Originally Posted by Sliver
If you like living your life in close proximity to your house and around the same small group of people, you have that option in a city. You can take a neighbourhood like Lake Bonavista, say. There is a Safeway, skating rinks, parks, community center, banks, dentists, doctors, a lake, movie theater, some office buildings, a mall across the street, schools, etc. You could conceivably live your whole life in a one square kilometer chunk and be perfectly happy.
When, however, you inevitably need a hospital, specialized stores, social interaction beyond the dozen people you hang out with in your neighbourhood, a university, college (lookin' at you MRU), technical school, art school, zoo, science centre, amusement parks, etc. it's all at your doorstep in a city like Calgary.
In a small town you limit the opportunities for your kids and yourself. I can't understand why people live in them. It would be interesting to see statistics on the percentage of people from small towns who go on to post-secondary education, average age of getting pregnant, drug habits, etc. versus their counterparts raised in a city. I'm just going to go ahead and assume townfolk measure worse in every measure compared to cityfolk unless somebody cares to prove me wrong.
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