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Moving north - what's life like? Any tips? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by timberwolf1021@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/ontario@lemmy.ca

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Hey y'all! I've lived in southern Ontario for my entire life, but I'm planning to move up north with my wife in a year or so. We want to have a log house built on a forested 5+ acre lot, probably somewhere in the rough vicinity of Gravenhurst.

I've vacationed up north lots, but of course, vacationing is different from daily life. As for work up there, I'm a computational and structural biologist, and will be doing contract work for coding plus small in vitro experiments. Got a client lined up already.

So I'm curious – as a suburban girl with no experience living rurally in a small town like Gravenhurst, what do I need to know?

~~Also... do country diner regulars get discounts?~~ XD

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[–] GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hahaha that isn't northern Ontario and it's an incredibly expensive area as it's basically prime cottage country for wealthy Torontonians. If a small town has bougie options you know it is likely part of cottage country. You need to look further north if you want to save money and actually live in the north.

[–] timberwolf1021@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Fair enough! It's north to me, but not truly north, I do realize that. I don't want to go much further than there, though, so that I can still easily come down to visit family back home.

I know the cost is higher, but we have a budget of just under $1 million in cash, so we should be okay.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

It’s further south than Ottawa even haha