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In my boring little town, a tourism town, we have a high-ranked ski hill within 40min of city centre, other options including heliskiing with a couple hours, world-class golf (and spa) with 20min of city centre and several other equally great ones within a couples hours drive, an enormous lake running a few hundred kilometres in length within 10min of city centre, world-class backcountry hiking in nearly every direction, a x-c ski area that regularly hosts world cups, awesome mountain biking, some amazing motorcycle highways, fantastic wineries and fruit farms, endless fresh vegetables, etc. International airport is 40min away. We even get some good performing arts acts. Lower Mainland is 4.5hr to downtown core. Population < 60K.

Not really seeing a downside to this place. Different strokes for different folks.