Country musician Tony Stevens says a number of factors convinced him to move his family from Surrey to southern Alberta over the summer.

"Just a little bit of everything, you know," the former Clayton-area resident explained in a phone call. "My record label (Willing Records) is out here — that's not really the main reason, but you know, having kids, and the Lower Mainland is, you know, getting a little less affordable by the year. You know what it's like. And the area that we were living in, the neighbourhood is kind of getting subject to development, like towers and SkyTrain stuff coming down the pipe. So we just didn't really want to be stuck in that construction for the next five to 10 years either.

"Once we started looking around, the area west of Calgary just kind of called our nam

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