• My wife and I have been living in a small town of about 11,000 people for eight years. • We moved to spend more time with our kids and enjoy a slower pace of life. • Moving away from our friends and family had the unexpected benefit of strengthening our marriage.

Eight years ago, my wife and I did something our friends and family thought was borderline crazy: We packed up our lives in Calgary, Alberta (population of just under 1.5 million), and moved to Nelson, British Columbia — a quiet mountain town of about 11,000 people nestled in the West Kootenays.

We moved so we could spend more time with our two kids, have less financial pressure, and experience a slower pace of life. But what we didn't realize was that moving to a remote town would also strip away every bit of outside supp

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