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Originally Posted by Zarathustra
This is hilarious. You are simply grasping at straws and looking for conflict. Please do yourself and me a favour, and relax. This is a message board, you really don't need to get so defensive. I'm not even going to address your emotional driven points for it will only get you more upset. I however, will leave you with a few simple truths that any logical rational person would agree upon.
People move to bigger towns and cities to become educated. Unlike America, there are very few "college towns", and in most cases the respected universities are found in the big city. Educated people find better paying jobs in the city. Educated and intelligent are not exclusively synonymous, but any reasonable person would agree that it takes a certain level of intelligence to get a university degree.
There is a reason small towns get smaller and big cities bigger. Please, think more and use less emotion when debating, it will help you a lot. I can see that you are relatively intelligent yourself, but allowing emotion and personal bias to seep into your logic flaws it slightly.
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Wow ... I guess I've sure been told. Actually, I'm not looking for conflict. I just cannot let your unfounded and incorrect assertions about rural Alberta slide by unchallenged. You have not backed up any of your statements with anything remotely resembling fact or evidence.
I'm not really as upset you seem to think. I was more curious to see how you would defend your view points (note view points, not facts or truths). Unfortunately, you seem unable to do so.
One point you made above that I have to respond to is that there are in fact colleges and satellite university campuses in small town Alberta, amazing as that may seem. Plus, there are many web-based distance learning degree programs available, not only from Alberta universities, but also foreign universities from as far away as Australia and the UK. One does not have to go to a big city to receive a post secondary education.
You also make the claim that small towns are getting smaller. Check the latest census figures. That is not true. In fact, the fastest places in Canada are places like Cochrane, Sylvan Lake, and Strathmore. In fact, small towns all over Alberta are growing, not just those near large urban centres.
One more point I'd like to respond to ... I cannot be intelligent, as you asserted above. I am a third generation Albertan and currently reside in a small town. So by your definitions I'm double disqualified from possessing any intelligence. I actually chose to move back to a small town after 20 years of living in an enlightened city, so I'm really a basket case. (The preceding paragraph was meant as sarcasm, in case you have trouble identifying sarcasm.)
Out of curiousity, where are you from ... place of birth that is.