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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
This is all part of progress unfortunately. If there wasn't outside investment and attraction the community would continue to struggle and maybe it would have died altogether. Outsiders brought in life and rejuvenated the community and will continue to do so, hopefully. This is the same as gentrification in urban areas. Land has certain value and appeal and at some point it changes from what it historically was into something that serves modern society.
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I’d characterize it as the economy of Canmore has been improved at the cost of community. If the people who work in a community can’t afford to live there, if children have to move away, then it’s not a living community in any traditional sense of the term. It’s worse than the gentrification of a neighbourhood, because the people who are priced out can’t just move a few km away.