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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I love Sylvan, as do my wife and kids.
I think there is just as much to do in a small town as a city.
I will say the one thing I notice is education, while the schools are excellent, and my kids know their teachers/principals on a personal basis, there could be more offered.
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I think the available activities might depend on the town. As someone else mentioned, they took dance for awhile in their small town, but then the dance teacher moved away and that was the end of that.
We actually looked into moving to Cranbrook for awhile - it's not even really that small - 25,000+ people I think? But in Calgary, whatever you and your kids might want to do is available. Music lessons in any instrument. Gymnastics, dance, soccer, hockey, Martial arts of any kind, swimming (multiple pools, all kinds of lessons, variety of swim clubs), diving, golfing, you can even do luge here (I had a friend that did skeleton growing up). I could go on. Parkour. Giant indoor trampoline warehouses (lol). Drama and art classes. Literally almost anything you could think of to do, you can do in a city with $1M+ people.
Cranbrook is awesome for many reasons but even the swimming lesson options are really restricted, for example.
It's not the critical deciding factor for most people, but it is just one aspect to consider.