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GTSSportCoupe

GTSSportCoupe

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Anyone ever dream about getting away from the rat race?

With stupid out of hand real estate on the island, a little house on a city lot is worth an amazing property elsewhere in BC.

I'm sick of Victoria and my job, so I've been browsing more than usual. I'm not really a people person, so living remote isn't a problem for me.

Couple of my recent finds.

This is East of Bella Coola and North of Anahim Lake. Realtor.ca shows it in Williams Lake; which its not:

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Check out this listing

8348 DEAN RIVER ROAD, Williams Lake, British Columbia V0L1C0
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This is near McBride in the Rocky Mountain Trench:

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Check out this listing

3205 CRESCENT LAKE ROAD, McBride, British Columbia V0J2E0
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My wife is from St Steven New Brunswick...

Funny enough the same town with the east coast biological station so she could probably work there while I stayed home :grinpimp:

I tell her I have no interest in those winters, but man s*** is cheap.

Often threaten to get a bigass property in the middle of nowhere, and put the house right in the middle so we have a proper "**** off" driveway. Current driveway isn't quite **** off enough. Close tho. :hillbilly:
 
Our family farm near Cape Breton is Assessed at about 40k... it’s almost 500 acres. Sometimes it is tempting to move there.
 
GTSSportCoupe said:
Anyone ever dream about getting away from the rat race?

With stupid out of hand real estate on the island, a little house on a city lot is worth an amazing property elsewhere in BC.

I'm sick of Victoria and my job, so I've been browsing more than usual. I'm not really a people person, so living remote isn't a problem for me.
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I can relate.

Check out Ocean Falls BC, I'm not suggesting moving there or anything, just a cool place and there are some neat Youtube vids on it. Cheapest oceanfront real estate in BC.
Its home to a Bit Coin mining operation, a mayor that runs a digger and not much else.
 
slowandsteady BJ said:
I can relate.

Check out Ocean Falls BC, I'm not suggesting moving there or anything, just a cool place and there are some neat Youtube vids on it. Cheapest oceanfront real estate in BC.
Its home to a Bit Coin mining operation, a mayor that runs a digger and not much else.
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That's a beautiful little town. Never even knew it was there. Nothing for sale there at the moment. Check out google maps and you'll see a big slide the happened right beside the town. :oops:

I do really like north western BC.
 
slowandsteady BJ said:
I can relate.

Check out Ocean Falls BC, I'm not suggesting moving there or anything, just a cool place and there are some neat Youtube vids on it. Cheapest oceanfront real estate in BC.
Its home to a Bit Coin mining operation, a mayor that runs a digger and not much else.
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After living in Mackenzie for 5 years I would not live in such a remote town even though it was only 2 hours to Prince George. Williams Lake area is also not too remote with good schools and a decent hospital, good lakes hunting and fishing. Market is so crazy even in Nanaimo, Vancouver people are offering 100K over asking price to secure a property over a million already. I have fished a lot in Port Hardy, that place is so beautiful and quiet in the winters, wakes up in the summers during fishing season.
 
I flipped through a bunch of ads last night, daydreaming about no mortgage...

One ad made me laugh.
s***ty little house/cabin somewhere around Williams Lake with a few acres,

" property includes woods and a field"

Way to sell it bud...:lol:

I doubt I'd be happy with the winters off the canadian tropical island tho.

If I was rich (and travel was legal) I don't think I'd ever see another snowflake outside a ski resort. Probably not even then.
4 years in the tropics as a yoot ruined me.
 
seapotato said:
I doubt I'd be happy with the winters off the canadian tropical island tho.

If I was rich (and travel was legal) I don't think I'd ever see another snowflake outside a ski resort. Probably not even then.
4 years in the tropics as a yoot ruined me.
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Well, climate change might be in your favor - things are getting a lot warmer in the interior in winter. This week isn't a great example tho. :oops:

I've noticed north western BC seems to be trending toward above average precipitation with climate change, and southern BC is trending dryer. Makes a person wonder if long term, moving north (west) might be a good plan. With increased forest fires and all...

Heh, some of the properties in the interior would leave a person with enough money left over they could probably spend much of their winters somewhere warmer.

Where did you live for 4 years that was so nice?
 
My one favorite spot we spent a month in was Vietnam, I always said that is the one place I could live other than VI. Colombia was only a couple degrees warmer but that 100 percent humidity was not fun.

I think the people of Vietnam was a very big factor, such a great bunch. Up North near Mongolia a place we know of as China beach from old movies (Da Nang) was tropical white beach like Hawai with nobody on it. Only the locals were surfing, a beer was something like 50 cents. Massive tiger prawn dinner with all the fixings 6 to 8 dollars.

The south was very poor but again people were so welcoming, waving you into their grass hut dirt floor hut and offering you a tea.

I did open my options and try things I never would have, kind of like fear factor food.
 
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GTSSportCoupe said:
Well, climate change might be in your favor - things are getting a lot warmer in the interior in winter. This week isn't a great example tho. :oops:

I've noticed north western BC seems to be trending toward above average precipitation with climate change, and southern BC is trending dryer. Makes a person wonder if long term, moving north (west) might be a good plan. With increased forest fires and all...

Heh, some of the properties in the interior would leave a person with enough money left over they could probably spend much of their winters somewhere warmer.

Where did you live for 4 years that was so nice?
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Ah, I was a bum on a sailboat. Ended up going all the way around because it's easier than turning back.
(A gentleman never sails to weather :lol:)

So yeah, lots of warm places that arent easy to get to. 26 countries I think it was. Sounds like a lot but half are basically British or French.

Barely wore shoes for 4 years... Not quite living in a cave with the she bears and milking sasquatch like Bradford but it was pretty cool.
 
seapotato said:
Ah, I was a bum on a sailboat. Ended up going all the way around because it's easier than turning back.
(A gentleman never sails to weather :lol:)

So yeah, lots of warm places that arent easy to get to. 26 countries I think it was. Sounds like a lot but half are basically British or French.

Barely wore shoes for 4 years... Not quite living in a cave with the she bears and milking sasquatch like Bradford but it was pretty cool.
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That sounds like a pretty cool experience.
 
GTSSportCoupe said:
That sounds like a pretty cool experience.
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It was. Damn near 30 years ago now. :oops:

The sad thing is people doing the same trip now are posting on facebook the whole freaking time.

We only had a vhf, the SSB shat the bed early on and didn't really miss it.

Kinda where I learned to hate radios and the wankers who insist on rogering everything. :lol:
 
seapotato said:
It was. Damn near 30 years ago now. :oops:

The sad thing is people doing the same trip now are posting on facebook the whole freaking time.

We only had a vhf, the SSB shat the bed early on and didn't really miss it.

Kinda where I learned to hate radios and the wankers who insist on rogering everything. :lol:
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Roger that 😂
 
BAMFIELD, reasonably priced property, very clean, brand new water system, 100 full time residents and is still very isolated, no mosquitos, some of the best fishing on the coast, even has a corner store with liquor sales, and possibly a new road too. Reminds me of what Tofino was like back in the day. Just my 2 cents.
 
JimJ said:
BAMFIELD, reasonably priced property, very clean, brand new water system, 100 full time residents and is still very isolated, no mosquitos, some of the best fishing on the coast, even has a corner store with liquor sales, and possibly a new road too. Reminds me of what Tofino was like back in the day. Just my 2 cents.
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Hey Jim, yeah, I've thought of Bamfield. I actually really like it there. It's not cheap if you want land though. 40 acres with no house there right now is $1.9M !
 
Hi Graham
I have some very good priced lots coming up gir sale in Port Renfrew this summer lots from 1 to 20 acres…on septic and community water just minutes to town core
I bought one pre sale 👍
Email if interest can send you more info
Cheers!
 
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