Comment on When I retire I can I get a decent home for about 200k in canada with about an acre to live on that is out in the boondocks, and grow some weed and vegetables? Other questions inside.

• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  but that far north is not going to be great for gardening.

  But, hey, climate change is your friend here!

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• Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can always hot house them or whatever. Is it cold up there? Because I love the cold I keep my windows open and fan on when in the middle of winter. How is the internet speed in Canada? Or up in the parts posted? Which is the best company? Is there room for a part time job nearby or easy to go into town for basic needs and stuff?

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  • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re serious about this you should visit for yourself, ideally in the middle of winter. You definitely won’t want to keep your windows open in the middle of winter. Yes it’s cold. This winter was particularly long for some reason, Toronto is only just getting out of winter and towns further north still have ice.

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  • Toes@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’ll likely be limited to Starlink Internet service or xplornet. I hear the performance is fine but high latency and affected by poor weather.

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  • Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Last frost is in mid June and first frost is the end of August. So you have a very short grow season. Not only that, but at that latitude you’ll have issues with daylight.

    Winter temps will probably be around zero F or the negative teens C. Summer temps around 50-60ish F or 10-20ish C.

    Internet will probably be satellite only.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    First question: do you have Canadian citizenship or a route to it? Because if you don’t, the answer to your question is a hard “no”.

    If you do have a route to citizenship: if you’re living north of 60, unless you’re in a populated area, you not only will be limited to satellite Internet access, you also won’t have electricity or water or road access — you’ll have to come up with your own solutions, which usually involve someone flying in gas, propane and other supplies a few times a year for an exorbitant price.

    Property values in most parts of Canada seem to be doubling around every 10 years. So you’ll want to go on to realtor.ca and look for property currently selling for around $50,000.

    When I went looking around 15 years ago, I found a property for that price in southern Manitoba that had Internet, power and a well, a nicely renovated house and 2 acres of land. Today of course, it would sell for about $200,000, and you’re looking at no less than $400,000 in 10 years. The nearest populated area was in the US.

    Your best place to start looking is realtor.ca, combined with Google Earth. Then once you find some places for $50k or less, ask a chatbot questions about cost of food, availability of water, etc. in that area.

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it cold up there? Because I love the cold I keep my windows open and fan on when in the middle of winter.

    lol, yes – it’s very cold up there.

    If you leave your windows open and fan on in the middle of winter there, you will die.

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    • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I just like to where a nice sweat shirt or a hockey jersey with shorts 90% of the time. Kind of like getting an ice cold kiss from mother nature but also a warm hug.

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      • DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, but up there all your water pipes will freeze and rupture. But you don’t need to worry, you’ll be dead.

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  • Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I couldn’t say, I’m stuck in expensive-ass NY. I just knew what they meant by 60th parallel.

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    • Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dumb question is it bad as they say or as great as they say? I mean is there homeless everywhere and it smells like piss and you always find hobo’s sleeping on a subway? And rats everywhere? And if you are in a wrong part of town not knowing you will probably get mugged or worse?

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      • Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s more a NYC thing, I’m on long island, but I’ve been to the city many times and I wouldn’t say the homeless are everywhere, but they also aren’t entirely rare. The mugging stuff might happen depending on where you are and what time it is, but you’d have to really go off track from where you intended on being quite a bit to end up in those areas.

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