Comments on: On the Ocean

By: estrojenn

estrojenn — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:45:43 +0000

almost forgot – the cabot trail is insanely beautiful. we drove it last year and are going back to do it on our motorcycles this year!

By: Saelym

Saelym — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:21:45 +0000

Being that I was born and raised in Newfoundland, and am currently living in British Columbia, seeing the prices on these gorgeous little East Coast homes breaks my heart. My husband and I currently live in a 3 bedroom townhome (no land) that cost us $341,000. With the prices in BC going up constantly it’s always a battle to find a decently sized home to live in – most condos are lucky to push 900 sq. ft. and most townhomes are 1200 or smaller. *sighs*

I think our answer, when we sell our home, is to just pack up and start moving east. The further you get from BC the cheaper things seem to get, if you want to stay even remotely near a city center.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:15:14 +0000

Yeah, there are no restrictions on non-Canadians buying land.

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:04:25 +0000

Hmmmm….
I going to be going up in a few weeks. I think Sprint has a 30 trial period. I just wonder if Having wireless phone service has any/no bearing on wireless broadband?

By: MissSio

MissSio — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:36:15 +0000

See Shannon that’s something I didn’t really think of. There’s always a huge difference in price here in the states, I forget it’s not the same way out there… lol!

Is it hard (or even possible) to buy land in Canada while not a citizen? (but intending to become one) It’s something my sweetie and I talk about a LOT, buying and moving up there.

Scienkoptic, if they don’t have coverage where you are now, they will soon enough! I have a feeling this wireless broadband thing is really going to take off, esp if they get good upload/download times. I’m going to switch myself actually. I pay more for my cable hook-up and I can’t take that with me.

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:19:40 +0000

My 30 acre piece has a cordwood construction house. Two solar panels ~2KW. Also a large bank of batteries and Inverter system.
I’m going to look into Sprint wireless. I can get a signal at the house. I don’t know if the service in the region supports wireless. I’ve considered Sprint Wireless broadband with a Linksys Router that you can plug the modem into.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:46:12 +0000

A lot of the properties are about the same price whether or not they have a house on them, so you can treat the house as a temporary shelter while you build your own much nicer place. The other good thing about a lot of these regions is they have almost no modern building codes so you can build interesting and efficient structures without having to fight a zoning board.

By: MissSio

MissSio — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:38:51 +0000

Scienkoptic, depending on where you are living, you can also look into the wireless broadband that AT&T and Verizon have now. I’ve heard good things about it, and it’s not insanely expensive!

That having been said, I too would love to move to someplace like these… but I’d be more inclined to also just buy land and build my own house. The problem with buying pre-existing homes is that they often are not remotely energy efficient, or really human efficient for that matter.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:57:05 +0000

Yeah — not sure why the name changes across languages.

By: Fight2Survive

Fight2Survive — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:51:05 +0000

Magdalen islands???…
Is that les îles de la madeleine?

By: estrojenn

estrojenn — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:28:34 +0000

i want that place in BC.

By: Michael Collins

Michael Collins — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:10:50 +0000

As a Placentia baymen myself, I’m thrilled to see us get a little shoutout. Although I have to say, it’s more of an easterly trip than a northerly one (47th parallel). That house you posted looks to be on the Cape Shore, the Irish heart of southern Newfoundland. Not only are the people cultural and linguistic dopplegangers for Wexford and Kilkenny folk, but you’d also be within a short drive of this Cape St. Mary’s Ecological reserve, one of the country’s undiscovered treasures. It’s basically Heathrow for seabirds :) Plus lots of dramatic cliffs. See what I mean?

(I don’t know if HTML will work . . . apologies if it’s a mess of code above!)

By: Allahkat

Allahkat — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:00:03 +0000

All I need to do now is figure out a viable source of income that would keep me going if I lived that far out.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:32:34 +0000

Satellite has latency issues, but pricing and bandwidth gets better all the time. For most people it’s a pretty good solution…

There’s always dialup as well if you want to do it on the cheap. If you’re mostly reading blogs and doing email and so on, dialup does still work fine.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:55:47 +0000

I looked up that last house there a couple months ago on mls and it seems like a really good deal at the first glance. The only problem with it is that it’s on native land and you’d only be able to buy the house and then have to lease the land for years and years. A good amount of the ‘deals’ out there aren’t when you look into them a bit.

By: Ian Muller

Ian Muller — Mon, 26 May 2008 03:10:52 +0000

Guess I’m moving to Canada… man could move out to one of those places and survive on being a writer and self-sufficient pretty easily I bet…

By: Scienkoptic

Scienkoptic — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:05:59 +0000

any suggestions on telecommuting solutions when you are not within the reach of cable or dsl?
Satellite?
Dixie cup & string?
Homing pigeon?
Anyone got thoughts on Satellite. I’m going to be moving onto 30 acres soon that is not near DSL or cable.
I’d love to get some suggestions. I’m not within miles of DSL and the terrain is rolling hills with very tall trees.

By: Rawiri

Rawiri — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:34:14 +0000

I should get place like those… if i had the money

life is expensive

By: p7tms

p7tms — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:29:29 +0000

Hi Shannon,

Since I don’t have the finances to jump right in to one of those houses, and since I’d like to try my hand at obtaining/ creating a self sufficient house, I’d opt for a place I could buy the land for major cheap – then create a house (the plans for the house would be made after figuring out what the location’s strengths/ weaknesses were)

With that being said, I don’t know anywhere land is really cheap (and you’d not have to worry about neighbors – yet still able to get online).

Unfortunately, my ideas for a house will have to wait till I graduate college (and pay off that expense ) – but I do think it is something I want to call my own.