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Originally Posted by Peanut
Is there a google add-on for "blizzard conditions plus accident on the deerfoot while your child screams in the carseat after a 9-hour day at daycare"?
I lived in Lake Bonaventure for 16 years, 6 of which were driving to U of C and back everyday so I do have a bit of first hand experience with the commute. My boyfriend at the time was living in Chaparral as well, so I'm pretty familiar with going another 10-15 minutes further south to another nice lake community.
That's great you love where you live. I'm not here to change your mind and you won't change mine. I'm just saying that for me personally, lake communities don't have any particular draw and it's because of the suburbia factor.
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I guess I wouldn't have a problem with your posts if you weren't being so blatantly dishonest. First of all, why would you take your children with you on a commute? There are childcare options in the neighbourhood including a Montessori. That school is five minutes from any house in the neighbourhood. Drop your kids off
then drive to work like everybody else does. I'd scream my head off too if you unnecessarily dragged me on your commute everyday.
And kids don't stay little forever. There are three elementary schools that I can think of in the neighbourhood as well as a Junior High. In a couple of years when your kid is in school your home's proximity to the school will be one of the most important things in your life so I hope you have one close by.
Also, I just Google mapped Lake Bonavista Drive to UC. It's 23 minutes taking Crowchild or 25 minutes taking Deerfoot. You said that commute was over an hour, which wasn't close to true. You tripled the time for your post.
Lake Bonavista Drive to the Calgary Tower is 21 minutes. Big whoop.
Lake Bonavista Drive to a random business in the Foothills Industrial Park (where tens of thousands of Calgarians work) is 13 minutes.
You're suggesting LB is in the boondocks, but it's not.