Speaking of the world changing, Saskatchewanand prices haven't exactly been standing still. I sold three quarters last week that over tripled in five years. Sold in 6 days. This sort of thing seems to be the new normal.
Land!!!
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coont ya just git bye with an outhouse? Sol we had in SK for many moons, Gawd, I remember those 50 below winters! The outhouse was 75 yards from the house!
You can find $1K an acre in Sask. It will most likely be open pasture but its still the best price you will find. You will want to try to get over 12 acres. That way you can do a field septic and stick in at least a 200 yard range. Typicaly the cut off for tree programs is less then 10 acres, and farming zones are over 12. My neighbours are 11 acres and they are a 'residence' I have 13 and i am a 'farm'. We both have animals, but i seem to pay less taxes with more land. (yes i called SAMA to make sure)
dont forget to keep in mind power, water, and gas. These can all be 'hauled in' but getting on with a utility or drilling a well is much better. You will also need equipment to move snow and tend your dirt farm. Be warned, once you move away from the city, you will never go back.
dont forget to keep in mind power, water, and gas. These can all be 'hauled in' but getting on with a utility or drilling a well is much better. You will also need equipment to move snow and tend your dirt farm. Be warned, once you move away from the city, you will never go back.
www dot mccowans.com/listings/British-Columbia
www dot landquest.com/home.aspx
There is lots of opportunity to find cheap acreage.
Check out Lone Bute at landquest.....
Rob
And the way the economy Is thes days a gypsy lifestyle looks pretty good having the ability to move chasing work Opportunities
Hmm.. I'm intrigued. Care to elaborate? ..please..
He means that you can fly in, and set up a tent in about a bazillion square miles of bugger-all on Crown land, with little or no problems.
I mean, other than that you are fantasizing, if you think ANY of the options are going to be cheap! Price out aircraft ownership, and the attendant operation and maintenance costs, and you'll start to think Vancouver Real Estate doesn't look too bad.
FWIW, you won't get your hooks into buying any Crown Land in BC until some time after the Natives get done squabbling amongst themselves how they are going to divvy the place up. By my estimates, if you started dredging now, it'd take, oh, about two million years to come up with enough land area to cover off the current claims...Figure on at least 2 x the current land mass of the Province. So buying Crown is out. Homesteading died a long time ago. Cheap real estate, soon after that.
Best of luck with your reality check!
Cheers
Trev
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Even just buy a nice wall tent with a pack wood stove, your own little pop up wilderness accommodations complete with heat (I use 8x10 with a 5' porch now, small enough to fly, and somewhere you can stand up inside and cook under the porch), and hire the floatplane once or twice a year. You can buy your own too, I went that way as I fly for the day job and figured why keep paying for someone else's plane, but it does get prohibitively expensive at that point if you're not making it work for a living somehow. Realistically a $100 canoe off craigslist will get you into tons of wilderness in BC too, for all but the cost of driving there, and whatever spot you choose is "yours" to set up camp. Once you're in true wilderness it really doesn't matter if it's crown land or if you paid $100,000 an acre, if you don't mind cleaning up after yourself and packing up camp. With your tent you're free to fly in to any lake from here to above the tree line, sample a bunch of different provinces / territories and spots. You're going to be restricted by residency on hunting (BC for instance you have to live here more than 6 months of the year, and have your primary residence in BC [pay provincial income tax]), but fishing is wide open anywhere I've been for an over the counter licence.
This is our little 300hp teleporter, it costs about a Vancouver mortgage payment per month with purchase, insurance, hangarage, and maintenance considered. But the ability to throw a thermos of coffee in and be in the Yukon hours later with no stops is... nice.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
And I forgot my main point, I believe you'll see and do a lot more hiring a plane and moving your wall tent camp around the most beautiful choice places of this country, than buying a marginal piece of cheap land somewhere in the bush. As Canadians we already own the practically whole country, as long as you don't mind lighter accommodations than a cabin, the country's your oyster. No maintenance considerations, the view can change, and you're going to see a lot more... For a lot less.
If set on "land", consider a working trapline. Quite a lifestyle and many are ready to go with cabins.
If set on "land", consider a working trapline. Quite a lifestyle and many are ready to go with cabins.
Why are you bring natives into this it has bin nice that as of lately CGN have bin keeping away from Native dashing and have bin respectful and vice-versa
Following up on what Ardent says, a truck and camper (or wall tent) and a canoe or inflatable boat gets you anywhere you want in BC and you're not tied down to one place or to worrying 11 months a year if somebody's broken into your cabin.
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BigUglyMan
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That is possibly the ugliest plane I have seen in a while, but you can't argue with it's specs. You can pack a pretty decent load on it and it's probably great at getting in and out of those smaller lakes up North.
BigUglyMan
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Try convincing nag my wife of that. She's one of those people who can justify buying an RV then drydocking it with a patio and never taking it anywhere. Insanity, if you ask me.
