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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I lived in a small town. There were annual events for the community and multiple churches. There were also expensive outdoor hobbies like skiing in the winter.

That was literally everything.

Cities have the issue of there being so many things going on it's hard to chose and quality free and low cost events have a hard time breaking through the noise. But things like this are the exclusive privilege of existing in cities:

https://mitchellartgallery.macewan.ca/artbus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I live in a small town. Same. I'm not going to lie, there's a couple events I look forward to, but it's still very limited. (And woe be to you if you're niche in a way that's more of a lifestyle than a hobby. The gay scene is going to be small and mostly closeted)

TBF if you have aggressively common tastes you wouldn't miss anything in a small town, and the property prices are lower. If you're farming or something like that you just get used to driving to the nearest city and town for literally everything, and bear the expense and inconvenience of it. AFAIK if you're a fur trapper in the bush you're a fur trapper in the bush and that's it.

Basically, there's a reason cities grew up in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure about the lower prices thing. Gas prices were higher, grocery prices were way higher due to lack of competition and remoteness, and house prices were high due to a total lack of development and it being a somewhat touristy area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shoot, I did do a ninja edit to "property prices". Maybe you loaded it first.

The grocery prices are madness, and my local place was selling almost-rotten produce until recently. Gas can be cheaper or more expensive depending on other factors. It's still so much more expensive in the city; I know because I desperately want to move and keep track.

and house prices were high due to a total lack of development and it being a somewhat touristy area.

Yeah, Banff or Canmore would not be cheap. If you're in the depressing middle of nowhere the story changes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was Blairmore in CNP.

I hate driving so the prospect of driving half an hour to get groceries was torture.

My condo has 3 grocery stores within walking distance and 3 low cost grocers within biking distance.

I didn't appreciate that until I moved away lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep, no car is what makes the math work even with roomates, haha.