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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
I understand your point just fine, I just don't think it's a very good argument. 30 minutes is hardly a monster commute. Many people move to outlying cities all for pretty much the same reason, getting away from this place. I'm willing to bet most of them are more than happy with a longer commute to live outside Calgary.
If you work in the downtown core, that would be a bit tough, I'll give you that but many people work outside of the core along the edges of the city. I live in Braeside and work near Chinook, moving to Okotoks would add maybe a half hour to my coummute but that really wouldn't bother me in the least. I'd be happy to in fact.
To each their own.
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I'd be willing to bet most of them are less happy with their longer commute. The number one reason I hear about people wanting to live in a parasite community is more bang for buck in their house. But, I also don't believe - after a certain point like moving up from a sod hut - that a bigger house has ever made anybody a happier person.
People in parasite communities also always cite the great things there are to do in their towns, which is always a ridiculous argument because Calgary has all of those things times one hundred.
If you moved to Okotoks from Calgary, adding a half hour to your commute (on nice days, nevermind snowstorms, construction, accidents, etc.) would be brutal, dude. That's an hour a day, or five hours per week. Why flush that much of your life down the toilet with absolutely no upside?
As an aside, I lived in Braeside in the early 2000s and there was always multiple gaggles of scantily clad 15ish year-old girls running around I dubbed the Braeside Hussies. Are they still around? I imagine they'd be unwed mothers at this point as I predicted a baby boom in that community.