[HN Gopher] Tiny Town in Ontario, Canada Selling Properties for ...
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Tiny Town in Ontario, Canada Selling Properties for $10 a Pop
Author : Geekette
Score : 14 points
Date : 2024-10-25 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| nightowl_games wrote:
| Looks beautiful there! Sounds like a waiting list has developed.
| I wonder if the minor exodus away from major centers will
| continue. Personally, as a millenial entering my 'family' years,
| I feel pretty attracted to smaller centers. Safety, peacefulness
| and quiet trumps the excitement and chaos of a large city for me.
| mdaniel wrote:
| I believe there are several towns in several countries that are
| taking this "buy economic development" approach, differing mainly
| on the amount of subsidy they have to offer to entice someone to
| move to those town/country combinations. That real estate adage
| of "location, location, location" exists for a reason
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| I have secretly wondered if I'd be able to make living bringing
| WISP services to those places to help ease the modernity
| withdrawal of normal people wanting to move there. My grave fear
| is that my risks would be 90% bureaucratic and only 10%
| technical, given how much hatred community-run ISPs get
| Geekette wrote:
| That's already in place; the mayor cites wifi availability,
| including free coverage downtown.
| mdaniel wrote:
| [deleted]
| randomdata wrote:
| Funny attempt at correcting a misspelling that isn't there,
| but he wrote "the mayor [as in a person] cites [as in what
| he said]", not "the major city".
|
| From the article: _" We also have a dome of free Wi-Fi
| coverage over part of our downtown [Chochrane]. Do you have
| that in Toronto?"_
| MaxPock wrote:
| I've seen those deals in Italy where they give you a free house
| in village .The catch though is that you'll end up spending
| thousands of Euros on repair to bring it upto standard.
| travisb wrote:
| It sounds like a good deal, hopefully they have mortgage support
| arranged with their local banks.
|
| For many young people, the ticket to getting ahead these days is
| moving away from the big cities. Unfortunately it takes effort on
| the part of small towns to receive those young people in
| productive ways.
| KRAKRISMOTT wrote:
| This area doesn't seem too bad if you own a plane. It's perfect
| for a Skyhawk.
| brailsafe wrote:
| This is kind of interesting, but that's incredibly isolated.
| Living out there full-time isn't just a bit of a departure from a
| big city, by Canadian terms it's about the width of British
| Columbia, just to get back to the city where your friends might
| be if you're coming from Toronto. In their Maclean's interview,
| they remark that they're on the same latitude as Winnipeg, but
| Winnipeg is already incredibly isolated as it is from anywhere
| else. To get from Winnipeg to Toronto it would take 28 hrs of
| driving if you're silly enough to not fly, or 14 in the other
| direction to get to Calgary, assuming you're not stopping for
| long in the smaller "cities" along the way.
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| For that reason, anyone making that kind of a leap has some level
| of respect from me, it's not a move I'd make. Although I do drive
| that far sometimes to see some friends and family, it's like a
| bi-yearly thing at best.
| hadlock wrote:
| Allegedly they're getting passenger rail service (reinstated)
| soon so I would imagine that will help. With service to nearby
| mining city Timmins. Timmins is about 40k people and cochrane
| would be about 20k people if every lot is built out.
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| https://www.ontarionorthland.ca/en/travel/northlander-passen...
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