For me the issue with smaller towns in Canada is the drastic changes between summer and winter life. Summers are usually fantastic with plenty of things to do outdoors and people all out and about and little town festivals, etc. When winter hits they turn into ghost towns as people hibernate in their houses and bars with noting going on outside of the odd curling bonspiel. Nothing to do but drink and do drugs for a lot of the younger people and I got caught up in that and didn't clean up my act until moving to the city.
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