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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Small towns will limit you quite drastically on the career front, that's the whole reason I moved to Calgary from my small town in the Okanagan. I'll also provide a flipside anecdote that small towns can end up trapping kids. Hard drug use was rampant in my graduating class simply because there wasn't much else to do, and if you wanted to pursue any kind of university degree or technical training the closest options were Calgary or Vancouver. Most of the people I know from school either left town and are in one of those cities now, or they stayed and started working in the trucking industry. There's also no way I would raise my kids in any of the small towns in Alberta that I've spent time in simply due to the backwards cultural thinking so prevalent in them
For me Calgary is the best option in western Canada to raise a family
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That's an interesting point about the limitations of small towns. I too came to Calgary from a small Okanagan town in the early 90's, and most of my high school classmates went to Vancouver and a couple came here. The absolute smartest guy I knew in school (like he knew things that I likely still have no idea about) didn't leave, and ended up working at the Dairyland plant or whatever it was there. He unfortunately ended up taking his life at a house party he was hosting not too many years after graduation. When I found out I couldn't believe it. He was so bright, and maybe he figured this would be all he'd be doing the rest of his life and couldn't fathom it.
Anyways, sorry for the bummer post. When I read this I was reminded of my friend.