We bought a newish duplex in inner city - just liked being close to the good asian restaurants, and close to Elementary & JR High Schools so our kids can walk.
Love being able to walk my daughter to kindergarten each day and be home within 10 mins.
Neighbors are great, and if the ones in the attached side decide to sell, we will likely buy it to own the whole land, and let my wife's family live there.
That being said, if we spent the money we did on a place out in Chestermere, would have got a lot more for it, but just didn't want the long commute to get anything good (i.e. food, Flames games, my leagues I play in, etc.) and my wife will have to return to the office at some point.
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