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[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I do wish I would have known how cheap it is to live in Quebec. Too bad about the French thing.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

You realise that outside of the anglosphere knowing multiple languages is pretty much normal... There are plenty of people who move to Quebec and learn the language.

[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'm aware. I'm terrible at french is all.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

I was terrible at English at some point in my life, practice makes ~~perfect~~ better!

[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I am sure if I actually moved to Quebec and had to use French daily it would be different, my problem has always been being able to retain the information with lack of use. I've taken a lot of French and did well enough, but I forget it all now except for how-to ask if I can go to the bathroom.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Well, at least you remember something pretty useful! 🤣

Honestly there are tons of English speakers in Quebec that don't even make the effort to try and learn French, so as long as someone moves here with it as a priority we appreciate it a lot!

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

That house is really far away from anything, don't trust your instincts about distance when looking at the map that country is massive.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Val-des-Sources is 10 minutes away and has all services that are missing from Wotton itself except for an hospital which is 40 minutes away in Sherbrooke but there are CLSCs closer than that.

[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Sure, I'm myself planning on being in a place like that, in Quebec, eventually. Just saying that's the reason it's cheap, not because it's Quebec. I'm sure you can get similar prices in bum-fuck nowhere in whales or the Highlands or something.

[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I live in British Columbia, that property would pull in probably $800,000 here. Even when I was in Alberta pre COVID that would have gotten probably $500,000.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

As in, in similarly remote areas? If that's the case then I'll count myself lucky that it's Québec I'll likely move to next.

[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I am unsure how much land is coming with the house, but if it is acreage/hobby farm size it'd fetch a bit more probably, but it it is just a house that is part of some unincorporated area it'd be a bit less but the difference is significant going from western Canada to anything east of Alberta that isn't Ontario.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

1 acre, close to a town and a village, 40 minutes away from a city of 200k+ citizens.

[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That sounds like heaven except for the needing a car side of that.

It looks like those criteria would make it too close to Vancouver to be less than 2 million for a 3 bed.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Vancouver = Montreal

Kelowna = Sherbrooke

Merritt = Val-des-Sources

So it's like living in a village somewhere between Merritt and Vancouver but very close to Merritt

[-] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I'm not going to give a definite yes to that, I'm a Northerner and it's a completely different world up here, but from what I can gather your assessment is pretty accurate.

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