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Every other place I've lived, as you wandered off the beaten track, you could find larger chunks of land with fewer services for less money. This doesn't seem to hold for the SC. Gibson's is 3 km across. Sechelt 2 km. But *everything* else is within 1 km of the sea. There are roads running inland, used mostly for logging and mining. There are regions marked as ALR (Agriculture land reserve) in the middle of nowhere, completely undeveloped.
It does hold in a sense: It gets some cheaper/larger as you go up the coast toward Powell River.
But Edmonton, a house on a city lot is about half mil. That same money 25 minutes from the edge of the city will buy the same house on 10 acres. At 1 hour away it will buy a similar house on a quarter section of land.
Yes: the land is steep and rocky. That makes roads pricey. But the roads are in place.
Yes, some of it is crown land. But there are mechanisms in place to buy crown land -- usually with lots of hoops to jump through.
What's the reason behind this? Anyone have a clue?
It does hold in a sense: It gets some cheaper/larger as you go up the coast toward Powell River.
But Edmonton, a house on a city lot is about half mil. That same money 25 minutes from the edge of the city will buy the same house on 10 acres. At 1 hour away it will buy a similar house on a quarter section of land.
Yes: the land is steep and rocky. That makes roads pricey. But the roads are in place.
Yes, some of it is crown land. But there are mechanisms in place to buy crown land -- usually with lots of hoops to jump through.
What's the reason behind this? Anyone have a clue?