The muzak sounded like something from The Sims… since my sweaters have never whispered to me and there wasn’t an option for people who listen to spanish music (different varieties of RnR), I figured it’s Not The Place For Me.
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Aw, man, you really know how to hurt a gal. 
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Sorry. Conditioned reaction from living with teens.
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<snip> The theme I noticed was traffic, several of the “profiles” mention that they don’t mind traffic noise. Somebody must be trying to address those concerns right up front.
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Good catch - I hadn’t even clued in on that. Like Spoons has said, this is not the location to live in if you want a quiet night’s sleep with your windows open in summer.
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But real estate prices are high all through Alberta, and I have to think it’s because of the labor and infrastructure problems we’re having everywhere. For example, Innisfail is a small town on Hwy 2, about halfway between Edmonton and Calgary. And this is what almost $300,000 will buy you in Innisfail: a 990 sq foot tract home.
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We have family friends that moved to Innisfail just before the boom really took off - for about that same amount they got an acreage. Not perfect, a bit of a fixer-upper, but they love that sort of thing. Apparently the property value doubled in a year or so.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when when their youngest kid graduates high school and goes to university next year and the husband retires from his job soon after. The island in BC is where their hearts really are, and I think they were worried about finding a place to live. As long as they sell this place during the boom I think they’ll do just fine.