What do you look for in a place to live?

[Red Squirrel]

Gotta be a least 1/4 mile from any neighbor, must have high speed internet, sufficient power for a large A/C unit and a large freezer for storing frozen dinners and pizza, easy for food delivery people to find, with good mounting locations for video cameras to monitor the grounds.

That's about it. If you can find all that, then you can have your own survival shelter and gun vault built and add an emergency generator and fuel storage.

I basically found such land or at least close. I'm still kinda debating on buying it but it's 58k, which is money that I don't have, and 2 hours from town so not like I could live there right now. I would slowly build a house and then retire there. It's about 9 acres, has a 300 foot tower (that's where the camera mounting comes in) and it's in an unorganized township, so like pretty much no bylaws. The town it's in has like maybe 10 houses. There's a few provincial rules I still have to follow but in general there would be quite a lot of freedom out there.

I would run on mostly solar and wind, and propane as backup. Heat would be wood stove and propane as backup as well. Maybe also some solar collectors for heat. It just so happens that when it's -40 the sun tends to be out.

I don't know about the pizza guy wanting to drive out there though, but there is a city not that far from it so I could still go pickup fast food and groceries and all the things you'd normally get from a city. Pretty much a retirement dream land. But I think I will hold off, I can probably find better, not like I'm in a huge hurry. The fact that it's an unorganized township is what really sells me though. Taxes are like 100 bucks a year too.

I don't know how good the internet is either but with the money I'd save in taxes I could probably pay an ISP to roll me some fibre. There's a train track that passes nearby, usually they bury fibre near the track since the long distance company used to be part of the rail company. In some places you can actually see old relics of that where the old telegraph lines are visible with the glass isolators.

 

[Chaotic42]

Wow, you really are setting roots way up there. Figure you'd want to move back to the land of crawfish boils and king cakes sooner rather than later.

For better or worse I'm going to be up here a while.

 

[Thebobo]

Such places exist? When my closest neighbor was 1/4 mile away I had to use dial up or satellite.

There is hope. They are satellite but they are a lot closer

SpaceX Gains FCC Approval For Low-Latency Satellite Broadband Internet Service

"When we think of satellite internet, problems with latency often crop into our minds. This is because traditional satellites that are capable of delivering internet and TV service operate in a geostationary orbit (GEO) at an altitude of around 36,000 kilometers. However, the satellites that will form the backbone off Starlink will orbit the earth at an altitude of around 1,200 kilometers. This will drastically cut the latency measured from GEO satellites from 600ms to between 25 to 35ms in low-earth orbit (LEO). According to the FCC, terrestrial internet latencies range from 14 to 52ms."

https://hothardware.com/news/spacex...-latency-satellite-broadband-internet-service.

Be cool be out in the middle of nowhere steaming movies or playing online games. I just wish they hurry up!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Honestly I think uncapped internet is more important than the speed. While the speed is nice, if I was living in an awesome area I'd be willing to sacrifice fast internet but I would at least want access to unlimited internet even if it's dialup speed. I can set things to download overnight. Even youtube videos, I could always find an app that's reliable to download them ahead of time. Would also force me to do other stuff than to spend time online. 😛

 

[Thebobo]

Honestly I think uncapped internet is more important than the speed. While the speed is nice, if I was living in an awesome area I'd be willing to sacrifice fast internet but I would at least want access to unlimited internet even if it's dialup speed. I can set things to download overnight. Even youtube videos, I could always find an app that's reliable to download them ahead of time. Would also force me to do other stuff than to spend time online. 😛

For me low latency is more important I want to be able to fly X plane or othe flight sims with others.

 

[lxskllr]

Honestly I think uncapped internet is more important than the speed. While the speed is nice, if I was living in an awesome area I'd be willing to sacrifice fast internet but I would at least want access to unlimited internet even if it's dialup speed. I can set things to download overnight. Even youtube videos, I could always find an app that's reliable to download them ahead of time. Would also force me to do other stuff than to spend time online. 😛

Dunno about Cannuckistan, but I use Boost Mobile for home internet. I get a whopping 3gb of "high speed"/month, and then it throttles to ~3* dialup speed, but it's theoretically unlimited.

 

[Chaotic42]

For me low latency is more important I want to be able to fly X plane or othe flight sims with others.

Yeah, I like to play games with my friends from time to time, so low latency internet is important. My realtor will have his/her work cut out for them.

Interestingly, since I decided I was going to buy a house, I've had dreams about moving every single night.