For the last five years Mrs. Middle Class Millionaire and myself have been talking about selling our house in the city and moving back to our very very rural home town. Well...the talking is over and over the course of this month we’ll be packing up all our stuff and making the 350km trip straight north. Long time readers of this blog will remember that last year I purchased a recreation property up north well we’ve decided that we’re going to be moving there permanently. Here are some of the details below:
WHY THE MOVE
-lifestyle
-lifestyle
-lifesyle
ABOUT THE HOUSE
-located at the end of a dirt road.
-no cell phone or high speed internet service (looking into satellite internet)
-30 minute drive to “town” which is where we would have to work.
-our backyard is now 60acres which is surrounded by 1000’s of acres of crown land.
-land has 2 stream fed trout ponds.
-house is smaller than our current home (we plan to put an addition on sometime in the future).
-house is only 20 years old and very structurally sound (new roof, solid foundation) but aesthetically the inside of the house needs work as it’s very dated. Every room will have to be re-done to “make it nice” but the whole house is currently functional.
-the house already has a new well and new septic.
-has a detached garage that needs siding a new roof.
It is a drastically different lifestyle and community than where we live now. However, both my wife and I grew up there so we know exactly what we’re getting into. Stay tuned because sometime in the next week I’ll get to the part everyone wants to read about the finances...
Monday, April 14, 2008
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You should keep in mind that Satellite based internet connections are great for transferring files down to your machine, but anything that requires packet order to be maintained or latency critical applications will fail miserably (will work, just not well).
So if you use a VPN or Play games, you may actually be better up on dialup. If you're using it for thinks like streaming video, or downloading files it's fine. However, web browsing is really slow when you compare it to land link based services like cable or DSL.
They do use technologies to speed these up, and you can use things like a local proxy server or similar caching server that can store content locally and keep DNS info for you. That way when you request yahoo.ca after you restarted your machine it doesn't take over a second just to figure out that yahoo.ca resolves to 66.94.234.13 . . . and then it has to start the connection and request the page bit by bit.
Your average latency if you play games will be in the 700-1400ms range. Any game that requires low latency like an FPS will be unusable.
If you know what you are getting, and have it's specific uses in mind it's great, but cable or DSL it is not . . . no matter how hard the marketers are saying it's comparable.
Wow, big life change.... I am curious to find out more details. Congrats!
I love the country life. We traded high pace for high country when our kids hit high school. It was the best thing we ever did. Our second best thing was moving to the Midwest and beginning to redo this dated house----with the largest barn I have ever seen!
Congrats!
PS - satellite works fine here but cell phone....none.
This sounds great. I sometimes think that I would like tolive in the country in a house with a large plot. But then I remember that I love my Internet connection and dislike gardening!
"...land has 2 stream fed trout ponds..."
Are you issing any invitations for Opening Day?!!!!
Rachel,
Sounds like a cottage (instead of a house) in the country might work for you.
Brad,
Ha ha...I just might. We just can’t go to any of my secret spots though...as I’d pretty much have to kill you after which would be a drag since I enjoy reading your blog.
"our backyard is now 60acres...
alot of grass cutting !
Enjoy the peace and calmness of rural living, it always cheaper
Congratulations. I wish I could afford to do that. And I wish we had such vast ammounts of (affordable) land so close to town here in Victoria. Which city are you in btw?
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