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Originally Posted by Sliver
The lake. Lake activities can actually become ingrained in your lifestyle. People travel several hours and tie up hundreds of thousands in second properties or pay thousands per year to vacation by a lake. When you live in a lake community, you get home from work, throw on your flip-flops and board shorts, and walk over to your lake. You're instantly in vacation mode. Dive off the dock, go for a canoe, play some tennis...all the things you'd do at a resort are suddenly in your backyard, being used daily, at essentially no cost. I could never live in an area without them. I truly think you're short-changing your life to live outside of a lake community.
I have a buddy who lives in Kensington and always sings its praises. I like KP and used to hang out at The Yardhouse a lot. I like the treats and stuff around there. But they have nothing on a lake. I'm bored spending two hours in Kensington and I certainly wouldn't want to go there more than one day in a row. If you like shopping and browsing expensive craft stores all day on the weekends and after work, it's great it's there. If you're a more active kind of person that likes getting outside and having fun, lakes are where it's at.
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A lake community with motorized boating would be awesome in Calgary but I don't believe that any of the lakes permit motorized watercraft.
My parents built a house in Chaparral back in 2003. In the 3 or 4 years that we/they lived there I think we only used the lake a half dozen times and we only lived two blocks from the clubhouse.