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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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Who defines what makes a good community? When I lived in Lake Louise that was pretty much the best community ever. All transient people who lived there for a year or two and then moved away.
I lived in Banff - again, all transient people who stay for a bit then move on.
Canmore has to do what those other places did: build staff accommodations. It's so obvious it'll get to that point (it's already past it, really). That's how tourist towns work. Employees stay in staff housing.
Right now Canmore residents/business owners are too busy cashing cheques from the money raining down on them after their town turned from a mined-out old dump to a tourist mecca known the world over. Once they stop profit taking for a minute they can build a some nice places for their staff to live and things will be much better for the people who want to live/work there.