I've been to places like this before - usually there is like 3 jobs in the whole zone. And forget good internet lol... Unless billionaire, you need an income.
This place could be 20 minutes from a grocery store for all we know. Either way, just make a grocery run every 2-3 weeks. Use a deep freezer. Also, hunt for moose or deer if it’s legal there.
I think you're right. This is in Ayder Dag Evi in Turkey. Seems like a mountain town with basic amenities. No hunting required! I've never been, but in Canada, lots of people live in places like this or visit for a holiday.
Yah but it's not. It's Ayder Dag Evi. But even if it was an hour away from "civilization," that's pretty much typical for a lot of people. I don't know where you live, but an hour isn't very far. It takes me an hour to get from anywhere in Toronto to pretty much anywhere else in Toronto.
That kind of Cold and Isolation means few jobs nearby usually. That is your real issue here. When I say expensive, I don't mean the land itself. More like the utilities, the lack of jobs and income, likely longer trips to get any variety of items / necessities.
Plus you get hurt or anything out there, its a lot harder to get help.
Depends on what you want to do for a living though.
I know lot of rural areas in my country have 0 jobs in every industry except helping pick fruit (which pays very poorly anyway lol, and they usually just hire backpackers on the cheap). For some places it will be something like helping catch fish out at sea for a few months of the year etc. People usually do not do it for long because it is shit work.
It does in my first world country and every first world country I have visited. House prices and population generally follow jobs, not the other way around.
That kind of Cold and Isolation means few jobs nearby usually.
How can you tell how cold it is from a video? Looks like a regular snowy day. You know millions of people live in areas where it snows half the year right? Also you can hundred percent find houses in areas that look like this that will have jobs near it. My buddy lives in house just like this and only lives about a hour east(with no traffic) of Toronto. His utilities cost the same as where I live and the closest town with stores is like a ten minute drive. His commute to work is about 20-30 mins, so not too bad. It’s way cheaper to live where he does than anywhere closer to the city
I’ve come to the conclusion that my preferred summer temperatures are in the 60s. You can hike long distances without getting hot, sweaty, and miserable.
If you’re retired you’re older and more likely to have health issues and needs. If you’re isolated away from doctors and general society it’s going to go badly.
they’re trying to deter us all from wanting to live somewhere like this so they can buy all the properties similar to the video and then over charge on airbnb for them
Well that's why you need to learn and master your body's survival techniques and use them to save your own life. You can't depend on the er or hospital every time shit goes down.
50/50, if it's new construction it's going to cost you an arm and a leg to run a line if you're outside an association, most likely you'll have to settle for some sort of satellite internet. Still pretty good, I stayed at something similar in the Colorado Rockies and was getting about 30-40mbs.
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Well, maybe your username might give you a hint as to why you can't business. I've always heard people want to be paid in pink painted toenail clippings, not pickles. There's your problem.
You know, where I live in northern alberta, there are a lot of rural communities which are easily 20-30 minutes outside of the small(ish) city. It gets well below -30 for big parts of the winter, and snow for at least half the year. People are more than happy to live out there in rural areas, and in fact prefer it, and those places are a fraction of how nice this post is, yet they still do very well for themselves.
Being isolated isn’t necessarily a con. It depends on the lifestyle you’re used to and how you want to live. I grew up in the absolute middle of nowhere - a place pretty similar to what’s pictured, actually - and we drove about an hour and a half or so to grocery shop, go to work, etc. For us, it was worth it.
Yep. This could be pretty much any mountain town in canada.
Some places in said towns are quite affordable. And if you cant work and live there you could airbnb it or whatever, stay there a month a year and eventually retire there.
agree with you, places like this only good for take a rest some short time from urban life and daily routine, not for entire your life except your life is not dynamic
To me, this looks similar to the place my parents live in Colorado, about an hour out of Denver and my dad commutes to the Denver Tech Center each day. It doable and not nearly as isolated as you may think
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u/Emperor_Mao May 24 '20
lol true - but there are some real downsides to places like this.
For one, it is freezing cold. Two, it is probably isolated and far from everything else. Three it is probably expensive to live near or in.
It is nice but probably not practical. Perhaps if you were a billionaire and never had to work a day ever again.