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Originally Posted by Raekwon
I just had this discussion at work. The problem is people aren't moving to the small towns for the lifestyle anymore they are doing it for the housing prices. I liked the small town feeling of living in High River when I lived there about 10 years ago, since moved to Airdrie which at one point still had the small town feeling but that is long gone. Now its just angry over extended homeowners that have a long commute and like to complain
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Airdrie definitely isn't small town anymore, you got that right - one of the fastest growing urban populations in North America (they'll be hitting the 100,000 population mark in no time). From our experiences working with the City, seems like they're definitely having a time finding the right policies and approaches to adjusting to this growth. And understandably so - going from a small city to a big one in relatively short order is definitely a challenging hurdle, policy-wise and resource-wise.