Well I will be making the jump to a parasite community in October and will give a proper first hand experience of what it is like. We looked at Okotokes and Cochrane but decided on Cochrane. Okotokes would have been better for our social life since all of our friends and family live in the south but we decided on Cochrane instead on the ease of mountains as well as commute for my wife.
We currently live in New Brighton so my bus commute is 1 hour door to door downtown and her drive is 40 mins to Northland business centre. Cochrane makes her drive 20 mins and my commute will stay roughly the same but I will drive into the city and take the train. I will carpool with a co-worker most days to cut the extra car maintenance costs down.
I like both communities but Cochrane just ended up having a old time feel to it that I liked a little bit more. Even though I am sure that will change with all the new communities going up. We went for an older community 1996 built house with a nice view of the mountains and rolling hills
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