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Jeez buddy take your hair trigger outrage energy out of here and back to defending Trump or Elon Musk somewhere

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LOL I know that house's neighbour. A diesel mechanic who builds brodozers and deals a little coke on the side.
We went out to a few parties out there (before I knew about the coke part), it's certainly a nice spot.

6793026 was drinking and throwing faberge eggs at a wall last night

@Great68 - Any idea on what the local builder scene is like? (And I mean construction, not brodozers.)

A former colleague of mine recently moved to the Island and bought a property I think (could be wrong) Colwood area. They're having a hard time finding a contractor who will build a standard home in their neck of the woods. They all want to do custom builds only, citing it isn't profitable enough doing a standard build. They can't contain the costs with their wants vs. needs, and were thinking of selling their property, but no biters for over half a year.

Not sure if they are being unrealistic, or if the local market is in such shape. I want to give my former colleague the benefit of the doubt as they are both very reasonable people, but hearing of this surprised me a bit.

3 acres and somehow zero privacy or shade in the yard. When I was out in Sidney a few of these hideous places that look out of place were popping up there as well.

You in the business and know for sure it's less than 1k for double waterfall? When I wanted double waterfall, GC wanted thousands more for it over just 90 degree cuts. Reasoning I got was because there is a limited number of companies that will do the cut and there is a lot more onsite labour involved during installation, such as polishing.

I don't know the residential construction scene that well, but I imagine anyone that's building standard houses is probably tied up in the larger developments Ie: Westhills, Kettle Creek, Royal Bay etc.

How's the schools and health care doe? I heard the hospital wait times are worse than here? What if you fall off that atv, you can't ferry back to go to the hospital

There's an army of storks carrying both babies and injured people to/from the island regularly throughout the day, haven't you seen them?

I have a PJ, don't you?

I have a couple friends up in Comox who moved from the city back in 2020 and they are loving life. They have an acerage with a main house and a guest house (which they recently renovated). They love the farm to table lifestyle so they are especially happy. Most of what they need to buy regularly they can get from local supermarkets, farmers markets, Comox costco, and Amazon.

Downsides are: no family doctor, daycare was almost impossible to find, now that remote working has become more hybrid their job options are more limited than before, coming to Vancouver is a long, expensive trip on the ferry, and he spends a TON of his time upkeeping the property doing landscaping and other heavy labour.

As I’ve said before, a detached home is not something you can reasonably undertake if you’re not kind of handy..

Let alone acerage. I don’t really envy anyone who “escapes” the city only to live in some run down rural property. Cutting grass at my parents 0.5 acre in Surrey takes like 1.5 hours twice a week in the summer.

Let alone like crops, general maintenance etc. lol I think most people would be woefully unprepared to live in a big detached home on a big property. It’s -non-stop- work.

Yep I agree with that. But to each their own. I think my friends prefer this lifestyle, even if it means spending weekends doing upkeep. It's peaceful, quiet, no crowds, and pets/kids can run around, stuff like that. It's hard to find that in an urban environment. Everything is a trade off.

For us personally, we're tied to larger cities because:

- My employment is not easy to find in a rural area
- Our family has ongoing health challenges so being close to our doctors, specialists, etc is key
- Our parents are here, which means we are close to grandparents for family time and childcare
- We're happy with our daycare and the schools in our area
- I like the conveniences of the city (lots of transit, parks, uber, chipotle, etc)

It means we get a LOT less house for a LOT more money. But such is life. Can't have it all.

Can’t find decent Chinese restaurants / ethnic restaurants / desserts / etc
Can’t find decent shopping
Can’t find decent used cars
Can’t find decent mechanics / doctors / services

Otherwise I’d buy a one way ticket to butt fuck nowhere for sure. I dislike this city a lot. I’d leave if we didn’t have family here and buy a ticket to New Zealand or Australia

Oh yea like many people can be happy just with the larger sized lot alone even if they aren’t capable of the upkeep

For me however it would just be a constant source of stress

No matter what it is, I don’t particularly enjoy doing “work” ever whether it be working on a car or doing home maintenance etc. I guess that’s why eventually when you become wealth enough your time is worth more than these tasks and you pay someone to do them.

my lot is about 7000sf and we like to garden. i think it really depends on the shape and obstructions in your lot and of course how big your house is. you can do a ton of gardening on a 7000sf flat lot with not many trees shading it out. if i had the ideal situation then i wouldn't really want 1/4 acre or bigger.. i think one of the best things about having an acreage is just that you are further from your neighbours, but it's too much land for what most ppl will ever use it for. most acreages are just grass, or just trees. people don't tend to use even 1/4 of the space.

Does anyone else think this whole style with word signs is massively cringe as much as I do?

Like in that Highlands house, the "Boy Hood" and "Long Life" signs, just make me WTF.

And the "Laundry" sign in the laundry room. Oh thanks, I couldn't tell by the two big machines what part of the house I was in!

Yep. Basic bitch Homesense style. "Live laugh love". Some joke about a housewife's wine alcoholism.

But also in my experience it's pretty typical home stage decor so might not be representative of the actual style of the previous owner.

"Don't talk to me until I've had my morning heroin"
The Karen decor is one of the most horrible things to happen to homes. They are also the most common demographic of homeowners in this country.

Very cringey but very common for staged homes. My agent had a few of those types of signs/art when they staged my house. Apparently it plays well.

I'm so glad we didn't need to stage our place, and it only took one weekend of showings. I would have killed myself having to live in something like that.

We had that same problem. An open house is not a livable house.

Sorry, I should have quoted the post.


https://www.zealty.ca/mls-966173/657...-Highlands-BC/

^I was referring to the kitchen island countertop in this post. If you look at the kitchen island, you can see they just placed the top counter top on top of the bottom counter top so you can see a visible crease. When you make a mitered edge, you wouldn't see that crease.

This is what I was referring to. You can see they just placed the top stone on top of the bottom one and you can see the crease.
https://ddfcdn.realtor.ca/listings/T.../966173_10.jpg

Versus this one below that has a mitered edge
https://www.igscountertops.com/wp-co...fall-Panel.jpg

Not in the business, but when we were renovating we were looking at different countertop guys and the one guy who quoted us without a mitered edge was about $1,000 less than the guy who did it for us. So I assumed it was only a $1,000 difference. This was in 2019, but now that I think about it, the guy who was $1,000 less said he couldn't do the mitered edge, so I guess it's in addition to having the right tools for the job.