real estate

[bearfinch]

Back during the Christmas break, I was driving around the countryside near my old home. I usually make an effort to visit out there when I'm in peterborough and I love how the area looks to much the same. Driving or walking around there, seeing how familiar everything is, I feel like I did when I lived there, except for being more established and

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[djmadadam]

McMansions. I place my bet on McMansions.

And, this is happening everywhere.

Fortunately, the counties and townships in my area have banned together to legislate "protected farmlands" and "protected green spaces", with the permission and initiative of the land owners, so that much acreage will never, ever be developed.

[bearfinch]

There is a strip of land like that in Ontario called the Oak Ridges Morraine, which the provincial government has sort of more or less half heartedly designated as off limits to developers. However there are loopholes around it and I'm sure they'll be exploited.

The area where I grew up is outside the protected zone and I'm pretty certain it will be developed. As you say, it's the same everywhere.

[bearfinch]

I'm not. Real estate prices are going up in Canada and the area is not too far from Toronto, and the population is growing. Our of that $2.9 million, a developer could put in all kinds houses and sell them at $100K each, and make a killing.

[folkyboy]

understandably, there is a folk song by John Gorka called "Houses In the Fields" about this very subject. it's so sad what human beings will do to something beautiful as their home...