Tell me about Cochrane....

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by normtwofinger

It has a big hill.

Yet it's at a higher elevation than Calgary!

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by pylon

If you are a car or motorcycle enthusiast, HWY 1A is like heaven. I usually bypass the 1 for the 1A just for the fun factor.
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haha yeah, true. Just out that way last weekend and kept thinking to myself I should finally get a bike when I was on that road. Good point, you win, you win.

[Rathji]

28.7 km from Cochrane to Work. 25 mins

15.1 km to Work from Chinook Center. 16 mins

Driving times in the middle of the day, which are obviously skewed, favor the drive from Chinook, so I am betting it would be just as fast, if not faster to drive to Cochrane during rush hour.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by fotze

The folks I know who live there seem to sure like it. If I were to move into one of the parasite communities it would be one of the tops. Probably works good for you where you work too.

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High River

Strathmore - yeah no. Blech. There is just nothing here.

We have friends in Cochrane and the only complaints I have heard from them is that 1A intersection and the hill can be a bitch in the winter.

[SportsJunky]

I think it makes you a Yop dumpster.

[REDVAN]

We looked in Cochrane recently.

We found that for the typical suburban homes they have there, they are MORE expensive than in Calgary. This was for new construction.

Didn't make sense for us- I'd love to live there when retired or if I was a big boss-man, but for now I am still a peon.

[Rerun]

Consider the amount you will spend on gas.

My wife and I both commute daily from Okotoks to SE Calgary. Between the two vehicles (2006 Ford Freestyle and a 2010 Jeep Wrangler) we spend about $600 per month on gas.

Even though we both love the country living style of Okotoks, we are seriously considering moving back to Calgary next summer due to the travel expenses that we occur on a daily basis. (gas/vehicle mileage/repairs and general maintenance)

[Bill Bumface]

^ What he said. I used to live in Rocky Ridge.

I filled up ~6 times a month. Now I fill up once. And my cars last wayyyy longer.

Pylon, are you single?

When I lived in RockyRidge I would find excuses to not go on repeat dates with girls in the South. I also would start finding excuses to not meet my friends downtown for beers at night.

They sure found a lot of excuses to not come visit me. It was a consequence I didn't think of at first. You aren't going to go for a 40 minute beer or coffee with anyone if it's 70 minutes of driving to do so.

[troutman]

I got some secret fishing holes NW of there.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Rerun

My wife and I both commute daily from Okotoks to SE Calgary. Between the two vehicles (2006 Ford Freestyle and a 2010 Jeep Wrangler) we spend about $600 per month on gas.

Holyyyyyyyyyyyy christ..... that's alot for gas. I spend $40 a month tops, and I live outside the CP-defined latte-sipper zone.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Rerun

Consider the amount you will spend on gas.

My wife and I both commute daily from Okotoks to SE Calgary. Between the two vehicles (2006 Ford Freestyle and a 2010 Jeep Wrangler) we spend about $600 per month on gas.

Even though we both love the country living style of Okotoks, we are seriously considering moving back to Calgary next summer due to the travel expenses that we occur on a daily basis. (gas/vehicle mileage/repairs and general maintenance)

Fuel costs I am not worried about. You can sum it up with 3 letters.

TDI.

[Fozzie_DeBear]

We live in Redwood Meadows...love it

If you can live with:
A :The river
B : The lease
C : Weird houses

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Minnie

Strathmore - yeah no. Blech. There is just nothing here.

Strathmore is for Saskatchewan transplants that want to feel like they are living back home.

[malcolmk14]

I lived in Airdrie for a long time and a lot of my friends still live there - so does my mom.

Some things I will say:

Commute: Most days it's fine, especially if you like spending a bit of time in your car, which I do. It gives me a chance to listen to the Fan960 morning show, have a coffee, and get into work mode (and out of work mode at the end of the day). The days it sucks though are those -30 days where traffic is at a standstill because everyone forgets how to drive when there's a little bit of snow on the ground. Those days are absolute torture and there were plenty of days I sat in my vehicle for two hours each way wanting to end it all. You also put a LOT of km on your vehicle, especially if you come into Calgary for non-work purposes too.

Social life: None of your friends are going to want to come out to Cochrane to see you, and you're going to be less inclined to drive into town to go places. A lot of people say this won't bother them and they don't mind the drive but when you're sitting at home and your buddy texts you to come out to the pub, your 10 minute drive from Chinook just turned into a 35-minute drive and you're more inclined to sit at home and watch TV and drink scotch instead. Also no more slipping home after work to change or whatever and then go out, once you're home (especially in the winter), you're usually not going anywhere.

Restaurants: if you like eating out a lot (I do!), your options are all of a sudden very limited.

Those are the biggest cons I found about living outside of the city.

[dsavillian]

I drove the commute for 7 weeks in the summer (my wife and I stayed with her parents while we were between homes)


Getting to the edge of the city was about 20 minutes, but we left between 7 and 730. It took me an extra 40 mins to get through downtown and into Inglewood though.

Going home was about the same from the edge of the city to Cochrane.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by malcolmk14

I lived in Airdrie for a long time and a lot of my friends still live there - so does my mom.

Some things I will say:

Commute: Most days it's fine, especially if you like spending a bit of time in your car, which I do. It gives me a chance to listen to the Fan960 morning show, have a coffee, and get into work mode (and out of work mode at the end of the day). The days it sucks though are those -30 days where traffic is at a standstill because everyone forgets how to drive when there's a little bit of snow on the ground. Those days are absolute torture and there were plenty of days I sat in my vehicle for two hours each way wanting to end it all. You also put a LOT of km on your vehicle, especially if you come into Calgary for non-work purposes too.

Social life: None of your friends are going to want to come out to Cochrane to see you, and you're going to be less inclined to drive into town to go places. A lot of people say this won't bother them and they don't mind the drive but when you're sitting at home and your buddy texts you to come out to the pub, your 10 minute drive from Chinook just turned into a 35-minute drive and you're more inclined to sit at home and watch TV and drink scotch instead. Also no more slipping home after work to change or whatever and then go out, once you're home (especially in the winter), you're usually not going anywhere.

Restaurants: if you like eating out a lot (I do!), your options are all of a sudden very limited.

Those are the biggest cons I found about living outside of the city.

Reading that made me depressed. I will likely be trying to get a home in a little while and can't afford a house in my area. I don't want that to be my life

[Northendzone]

A guy I used to play hockey with moved from airdrie to cochrane a few years back, and they moved back to airdrie within a year.

As I recall his main complaints were that cochrane was very small town like, everything seemed to close at 6.........now that being said, there are lots of folks that likely love living there.

Pesoanally, I would find it very difficult to make such a drastic move, as I think living there would be a love it or hate it.....

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Northendzone

A guy I used to play hockey with moved from airdrie to cochrane a few years back, and they moved back to airdrie within a year.

That seems like a lateral move at best. Unless the guy likes shopping for RV's every weekend, I'm not sure what the advantage Airdrie has over Cochrane.

[red sky]

Originally Posted by malcolmk14

Social life: None of your friends are going to want to come out to Cochrane to see you, and you're going to be less inclined to drive into town to go places. A lot of people say this won't bother them and they don't mind the drive but when you're sitting at home and your buddy texts you to come out to the pub, your 10 minute drive from Chinook just turned into a 35-minute drive and you're more inclined to sit at home and watch TV and drink scotch instead.

I must be getting older as that sounds like a great evening to me!

[Bill Bumface]

If he bought/sold houses can you imagine dropping $50K on realtors fees/moving expenses/lawyers fees to move from Airdrie to Cochrane to Airdrie?

I think this belongs in the "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" thread.