Australian Reacts to Canadian House Prices (Saskatchewan Edition)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
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Those grids you were commenting on aren't roads - they're marking out blocks of farmland. It's true that Weyburn is only about an hour and a half from the nearest city, but that's still a ways to drive for city services on a regular basis. It might look close to the U.S., but that's a five-hour drive and a border crossing to a central city in North Dakota. (The first place you looked at is in a village of 244 people - you have to drive over an hour for most things, including the nearest hospital, and the only jobs available are in farming or a potash mine.) We have a decent highway system across the south, but people can't really just live anywhere because there isn't the population density or resources to easily have varied employment, well-maintained infrastructure, or affordable goods everywhere that it's technically cheap to build a house.
A lot of Sask prices are really about location....the distances in Sask are very far...you keep saying it is just down there....that was a 4 hr drive and in the winter you may not be able to travel it at all due to snow...the gravel roads are unlikely to get plowed much if at all. Sask is in a grid like that (the roads and land) as before it was settled the government put stakes throughout the land when you were given a homestead farm you were given 4 numbers and went out and found your 4 stakes and your land was what is in between. The road (other than highways) are also in a grid and follow the longitude and latitude lines but every once in a while you come across what we call the correction line which is where the vertical roads hit the correction line road you have to turn go a little ways and turn north or south again because they are trying to correct to the curve of the earth back to the longitude and latitude lines. There are fewer people in Sask mostly because of the harsh climate but also very few jobs because of this most of it is agricultural unless you are in a large city and even the larger cities are very dependent on the farms around them. There is also a lower minimum wage than in the other provinces and large cities you are talking about.
It all comes down to supply and demand. The people in Saskatchewan are great! Hardworking, unpretentious, salt of the earth folks. Unfortunately, it's also quite remote relative to major urban centres in Canada. Also, it's a harsh climate, even by Canadian standards. Extremely cold and snowy winters and very hot summers. Due to a heavy reliance in Saskatchewan on agriculture and resource extraction, there isn't a varied, diverse job market. I used to live with a girl originally from Regina (in London, ON), and we visited her hometown regularly. So, that's my best guess to explain the inexpensive housing market in Saskatchewan compared to cities like Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal.
We don't always have basements. It really depends where you are. Lots of places in Greater Vancouver they aren't allowed due to the water table.
That represents about 0.03% of the homes in the country. It's safe to say there will always be a basement in a house in Canada because that covers the other 99.97% of the homes.
Now you're finally hitting house prices outside of the outrageously expensive markets of Toronto and Vancouver. Most housing prices are influenced by supply and demand. Not nearly as much demand in slowly growing areas as opposed to the superfast growing markets.
I paid 114k for my 1700sqft (1679 technically) in new brunswick in 2015, (wasnt planning on buying a house at the time, but it was a buyers market, and the opportunity presented itself, so im glad i did) before the market went crazy. Granted I put around 20k into renos before i moved in, but still not so bad. To put into perspective, the house next door to me sold for 475k a few months ago, to people from toronto, so technically a bargain, and the previous owners did a bugger ton of work to both inside and outside when they bought it. Also we live basically downtown, i can drive anywhere in the city in 15 minutes or less in moderate traffic.
Saskatchewan only has about a million people in the whole province. It's largely agricultural. It's also a very harsh climate.
Vancouver, think Brisbane. Toronto, think Sydney. Saskatchewan & Manitoba (yes i know that i switched from cities to provinces), think Perth- respectable but still "out there". Vancouver has an insane housing market, but the cost of living has always been more than just the physical property.
I know that my $275k has bought me less than 630 sq feet 7 years ago. But then again I pay a fraction of what I expect their heating and cooling bills through out the year. And gas would be about equal just because the major cities have jacked up prices. Groceries too are affected by the local markets... I mean you can get a great meal in New York so long as you don't ask too many questions, but you have 60+ year olds fighting 20 year olds over rental properties, right?
More than 90 percent of Canadians live within 150 miles of the US border. The higher you go, the less populated and the less services you get. Proximity to the major cities and the border to the US gives the most benefits (whether it is fair or not). There are great people and communities in Canada's Prairie Provinces- original settlers, the 60's and 70's asian boom and even the modern immigrants. Again I look at Western Australia for a similar situation.
Saskatoon is a really nice city
Most of Canada is laid out by townships, a grid of 36 square miles. When the the homesteaders came, you were given your quarter section (160 acres) in the township, improved it for 3 years and owned your farm. Not all immigrants were able, but those grids became the basis for the roads, known as road allowances, every 1 x 1 mile, as seen on the township map. I still use my township map ID as my legal address, as do thousands others, found just down the country mile...
Just a little bit south of Saskatoon.....🎵🎶🎵🎵🎶
You can say North American but mate never call Canada American. You will just anger people. Sorry😅
😂 Canada sucks man!… People are leaving in droves and many are heading to the USA.
You can live like a king in Saskatchewan for a fraction of the cost of living anywhere else in the country, but most people would pay an extra million dollars to not have to live in Saskatchewan... or visit. It's so sparsely populated, the population is older than the rest of the country, there are only two small cities (one of which is a bit of a war zone, not dissimilar to what's going on in the Alice these days), and it's flat, boring, and mostly unattractive. Canadian winters are harsh everywhere but the west coast, but something about winter in Saskatchewan is just worse. I'm not sure what to compare it with in Australia... maybe if you found a large, affordable home a couple hundred kilometres north of Coober Pedy, would you move there? It would be a better choice than Saskatchewan because at least it's beautiful and the weather is hot. Saskatchewan would be like living in Marla, but -32° with 6 feet of snow. The nice, big house just doesn't make up for what's wrapped around it.
Your million dollar example is a 30 metre x 40 metre lot, not feet. 😋
You're funny bud. Are you from the GTA?
Yeah no. If you've ever been to SK you missed the northern half which is neither flat nor boring. Stereotypical view 🙄 plus thr prairies aren't boring if you took the time to experience the wide open spaces. Old population? 🙄