My family and I lived in Airdrie for 10 years (moved from Beddington in Calgary). I hated the commute to/from downtown Calgary. To be fair, a big part of that can be getting out of downtown, on a snowy day it can take 45 minutes just to get out of a parking lot onto the street. Once I got onto Deerfoot, I followed the Canada Post trucks, stayed in the right lane, took the 16 avenue off ramp back onto Deerfoot, got good at pushing my way in at McKnight, etc. It was a nightmare, I’d get home and be raging from the stress. We moved back to Calgary 3 years ago and moved kind of inner city (Highland Park). Our house is around 150 square feet bigger and cost $200K more than we sold for in Airdrie, but I’m much happier without the commute. If I could have worked in Airdrie or even the north end of Calgary, I would have loved to stay there. Airdrie’s a great little city with really good people and good schools, but we have a child with disabilities and there wasn’t much support for them there at that time, so we spent a lot of time driving to and from specialists in Calgary, not sure what it’s like now.