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Originally Posted by Table 5
Yeah, the ranches are definitely more expensive, and in that budget, probably not realistic. But having said that, I'm not sure how a suburban-style neighborhood in Cochrane is better for you compared to any other place in NW Calgary.
You say your main reason is to be closer to the mountains..I assume to save some time. Lets say it shaves 20 minutes going to the mountains and you go there one a week....then you save 40 minutes every weekend. BUT you lose 40 minutes every day by going back and forth to work in Calgary, compared to living in a NW neighborhood. So that's almost 200 more minutes of driving a week to be a little closer to the mountains on the weekend? And that's assuming you never go to Calgary outside of work...which I kind of doubt.
Obviously we all have different priorities though, so that might be worth it for you. I do like driving that road, ha.
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If it currently takes you 25min to commute to work every day, that's 50 minutes a day for a round-trip If you move out to Cochrane, that's probably going to swell up to 1 hour commutes which is 2 hours a day you lose driving back and forth
That's 10 hours each week that you are driving to save a 40 minute trip to the mountains on the weekends. That's 520 hours a year / 22 days you are spending in your car driving to work each year.
If there's one piece of live advice I try to give people, it's try to move closer to work because you gain so much of your life back. No location is worth spending what is literally years inside your car commuting to work over the span of your career.