Food For Thought
I have thought, often on the past about moving out to rural areas. It’s been a fantasy of mine to live closer to land for years. In the past ten years or so that fantasy has had opportunity to crystallize a little more.
Friends of mine have lived out by ipperwash for years, and last summer they moved out to the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. The move was hard but they are deliriously happy in there new home and the Haggis and I are discussing the merits of moving out there.
It’s a very rural area, and there would no doubt be a bit of a culture shock moving to such an out of the way location after having spent all of my life in the “Big Smoke”.
This past weekend we went up to see them and spent five days with them. The area where they live is utterly beautiful. It is natural and pristine they are surrounded by awesome fishing, and hunting. There are hospitals within 20 min of there house, so they are not without basic emergency services. The towns are pretty and culturally active and our friends T and S have had a very easy time making new friends.
The houses are unbelievably inexpensive compared to Toronto. There is only one massage therapist in the town that they live in, and she is booked solid for four weeks in advance.
I recently questioned my own massage therapy plan. I have been planning to move to a larger house in a nicer area and eventually open a business out of the house. The houses that we have been looking at have been outrageously expensive. Even if we get a good price for our house we would wind up with an unreal mortgage for the next house. I suspect if the numbers are crunched we won’t be able to pay the mortgage off in what is left of our working lifetimes.
However if we sold this house, we could buy a house outright in the annapolis valley. The only problem with moving out there is there is a bit of uncertainty for the Haggis. I have no doubt that he will be able to find a job in a reasonable amount of time, but he is not so certain.
Nothing is carved in stone, and nothing will change for a few years at least, but it is food for thought.
Friends of mine have lived out by ipperwash for years, and last summer they moved out to the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. The move was hard but they are deliriously happy in there new home and the Haggis and I are discussing the merits of moving out there.
It’s a very rural area, and there would no doubt be a bit of a culture shock moving to such an out of the way location after having spent all of my life in the “Big Smoke”.
This past weekend we went up to see them and spent five days with them. The area where they live is utterly beautiful. It is natural and pristine they are surrounded by awesome fishing, and hunting. There are hospitals within 20 min of there house, so they are not without basic emergency services. The towns are pretty and culturally active and our friends T and S have had a very easy time making new friends.
The houses are unbelievably inexpensive compared to Toronto. There is only one massage therapist in the town that they live in, and she is booked solid for four weeks in advance.
I recently questioned my own massage therapy plan. I have been planning to move to a larger house in a nicer area and eventually open a business out of the house. The houses that we have been looking at have been outrageously expensive. Even if we get a good price for our house we would wind up with an unreal mortgage for the next house. I suspect if the numbers are crunched we won’t be able to pay the mortgage off in what is left of our working lifetimes.
However if we sold this house, we could buy a house outright in the annapolis valley. The only problem with moving out there is there is a bit of uncertainty for the Haggis. I have no doubt that he will be able to find a job in a reasonable amount of time, but he is not so certain.
Nothing is carved in stone, and nothing will change for a few years at least, but it is food for thought.
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