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Old 07-24-2012, 11:57 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by Hans Landa View Post
I'm sure proximity to the Airport helps. There are a lot of services here, as I mentioned before, but as far as terrain... Okotoks is nicer. Airdrie is pretty flat right where the development is, but as soon as you head 4 kms west of the Deerfoot and clear the subdivisions you're in the rolling prairie and not far from the foothills around Cochrane.

I had to work in Okotoks for 2 weeks when I first arrived in Alberta. The terrain there definitely makes for a more interesting visual. Airdrie is just a flat grid that's cut up it's gut by Hwy 2.
The opening of the Deerfoot extension in the last decade is likely the primary reason Okotoks has boomed. Before that, it was a pretty tough slog to get to downtown Calgary.

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