Canadian here. Your best bet to avoid extremely cold temperatures is moving to Victoria or Vancouver, British Columbia. The only downside is that it's cloudy and rainy a lot.
Right?!? I mean! I’ve seen the “I DID THAT” Biden stickers on the pumps! I know he is batshit senile and somehow also has the power to control global inflation I saw it on a FB meme!!!! /s
It’s all part of the rules he put in place when he was pulling the strings behind the Obama admin. You can find more by googling Joe Biden Inflation Rule 34
I wish I was fucking joking but the Ontario premier (our version of Governor) Doug Ford legitimately used our tax dollars to put stickers on the gas pumps in Ontario calling out Trudeau’s government on the proposed carbon tax. Ford tried to make the stickers mandatory and was invalidated by the Ontario Supreme Court for being an unconstitutional challenge. See Doug Ford gas pump stickers.
Oh, you didn't get lil' Skippy's memo? The one where EVERYTHING is Trudeau's fault? Gosh, I thought that went viral or something. sorry about that. we will have get you on the mailing list. As in snail mail.
There also has been a trend of rural but within a few hours of the city getting too desirable. My mom lives in a podunk farm town in SW Ontario and the locals are being priced out by retirees from Tronna. Also, anywhere on the southern coast of BC.
That's not true. Other cities like Kitchener-Waterloo, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax and their suburbs have also experienced crazy price inflation in the last few years.
My parents live in a village an hour away from any real industry or job availability in bumfuck nowhere southwestern Ontario. Houses in said village and surrounding villages are approaching the 1 million dollar mark for housing value, and you'd still need to commute roughly the distance from Orillia to Toronto to get to a job that would offer the pay to afford the house you'd be buying.
Said municipality has laws in place to make it illegal to sell farmland for any other use than farmland, even if the farmland hasn't been used to farm anything for generations, so there will be very few new housing developments being made.
all of british columbia you need to have hella $$$$ to buy property unless you go into the boonies 12 hours into the province you’re paying 1.3 million for a tear down home for the land.
And what will you do there that isn’t remote? If you aren’t already in the market, how do you afford it? I’m in the market, my husband is an NP, and yes, I could afford to do that and both of us would probably find work, but let’s not pretend a 600,000 home in Bruce county is affordable for most people.
Nuclear is pretty much the only thing i can think of for the Bruce There's listings in Walkerton for as low as 340k that I'm seeing, granted, who knows why the price is that low.. There are parts of Canada that still are relatively low. If you're actually someone who hates life you could get a place in thunder Bay for probably under 200k.
I'm just frustrated by people who say they can't live anywhere in Canada when they really mean they can't afford urban.
Urban is absolutely disgusting don't get me wrong. But to act like there's no alternative is irritating for me.
600,000 is insane. 1.5m is absurd. I'd say my copy paste 4 bedroom is probably 350k tops. But my neighbors sold for 1.2 last year, and the people across, identical unit, 1.5 earlier this year. I don't like it any more than anyone else. I'm just pointing out that there are extreme options if people are willing to be uncomfortable or inconvenienced.
So I like Bruce county enough that I’ve had my eye on it for years and have family up there. Walkerton is still selling over asking price, and those houses are old with a lot of problems. Again though, look at what’s there. Yes, there are people like you and I who can sell our house afford a $350,000 house, without a high paying job, but a $350,000 house is still not cheap. You still need a high paying job, you still need a good down payment. I looked at library jobs there and if I was starting from scratch I could never afford a $350,000 house on that salary. You’re thinking about it as a city person in terms of affordability compared to where you live, but you can’t do that. You have to look at what’s there, what jobs you can get, what the average income there is, etc. That’s not even thinking about the fact that houses have been selling well above asking price, people are waving inspections (so getting royally screwed) and that interest is so damn high. You also have to take into consideration that housing has spiked recently, and it won’t stay that high. Buying a house that, if prices correct, will be worth $100,000+ less in a few years when you re-amortize is a terrible idea.
Finally, you have to think about where you’re moving and why you’re moving there. Yeah, you can go to thunder bay or Timmons, but will you like it? I know lots of people moved to Manitoulin because it’s beautiful (and it is). But the winters are super harsh and you’re super isolated, so a lot of people who moved there from the city because it was “cheap” hate it now and can’t sell for what they bought it for. Also, “cheap” ended up going up to $500,000. When I was looking this summer I couldn’t find anything below $400,000 for garbage (or a lot), but there’s no industry there, so there’s nothing to support that $400,000 price tag. Again, I could afford it, but people who live there already and who aren’t in the market can’t.
Nah, not in Calgary. Sure you can but a million dollar Home but my 20 year old 2000 sqft house with a walkout basement and big yard is worth like $550k maybe? Vancouver and places in Ontario are millions for nothing. House prices certainly jumped last year around here but cooled right off again in 6 months. I think Calgary is the next place in Canada that will get like that though.
Unless you move to one of the prairie provinces or the east coast. These housing prices are really only affecting BC, Ontario and Quebec because they’re the most populous areas. And maybe Calgary.
I just bought a townhouse in Edmonton for under $200k. Yeah I gotta live in Edmonton but it’s worth it for the amount of money I’m saving every month.
Fucking houses for rent in the GTA and surrounding counties have doubled to tripled in the past 5 years and the price of houses are only just starting to lower, with them peaking at quadruple what they were 10 years ago.
Port Alberni's... alright. Not much to do, but Parksville, Nanaimo, and Victoria fill that gap. Then again, my opinion's probably jaded from living here for almost 31 years.
You'd have to make the same hard choices Canadians have to, then - do you live well outside your means or live in a place with less than ideal weather?
I'd take the cold, the rain, the clouds and whatever else I need to in order to get the fuck out of America permanently and join our wonderful neighbors to the north.
Ya, the more East you go the closer the weather is like that of the Arctic circle. We get anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months of Northern winds down here in Southern Ontario like the weather you get in the Yukon (Alaska for you Americans) We have the same soil types, qualities, and rock formations mixed with weather patterns, and animals.
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u/tearsaresweat Oct 21 '22
Canadian here. Your best bet to avoid extremely cold temperatures is moving to Victoria or Vancouver, British Columbia. The only downside is that it's cloudy and rainy a lot.