Novocastrian

So you steal the wood. A couple of Saturdays is no doubt at least $1500, perhaps more.

<and no, I'm not being serious with the first point>

R I C H

Lol, no the forestry folk here encourage beetle kill pine to be hauled away. There's 10,000 acres of strata land that myself and a dozen or so neighbouring properties own beyond our own acreages, so no lack of wood to use up.

Pffft - my equivalent regular employed time wouldn't be worth half that figure in compensation. I could get at least half a dozen cords of wood delivered for that price which would last perhaps 3 winters.

el_richo

I'm not commenting on the OP, i'm suggesting to Tigger that the OP would have the option of a family house in or near Glasgow for a similar price, not just an apartment.

I couldn't give a monkeys what the OP does. They just need to shit or get off the pot.

Auld Yin

Chairs with cupholders???? Somewhat CHAVVY I would think.

Novocastrian

Oh dear.

Why did you bother to emigrate then?

R I C H

Duh. To make a killing by starting, then selling a business, so I wouldn't need to worry about future income/mortgage/car payments

Novocastrian

Oh yes, I think I knew that. But still, surely you could get a better paying job?

R I C H

If I moved to a larger city, for sure, but then I compromise on lifestyle, or need the extra income just to buy an equivalent home/acreage. What's to gain?

mandymoochops

Not, apparently, if you are a male who likes beer and hockey (or football or golf or whatever else men like to lounge back and drink beer watching - oh yeah, porn.)

Anyway I think the op would have a perfectly normal lifestyle in a 2000sqft house - if its bigger than he has in the UK then it's a step up in space wherever it's located - and therefore a plus.

Novocastrian

What's to gain? Not having to have an ATV or to indulge in cutting up dead trees to acquire fuel. Having access to other cultures (i.e. not cradle Canadian ones). Oh, having a reason to take interest in the local professional sports teams (OK strike that).

Just messing about here though, as I think you know.

dbd33

I know the size of this house because it's a renovate-and-sell and we've dealt with designs and plans and permits and whatnot (but mostly because I just asked), but I haven't measured anywhere else I've lived, I can't do better than "big", "cramped", "medium". I liked medium, wasn't thrilled with big, couldn't deal with cramped.

2000 sq ft seems a controversial size but what's the size of, say, a John Laing semi, the sort that's all over north London or a typical 1950s three bedroom once-council house?

Atlantic Xpat

I had something like that in Essexshire once. Say 1200 sq ft. No basement of course. The house I moved from to Canada was a 14ft wide Edwardian terrace....1000 sq ft max. No basements of course. Our current gaff is of a size we probably could have afforded somewhere in Essex/Suffolk but not on the acre of land which it sits. We are, somewhat, the poor white trash of the neighbourhood as recent development has consisted of 3000sq ft plus "executive" dwellings of varying style and taste. Several have changed hands for around a million. (Yes, I'm talking about in Newfoundland.) We bought a small house at the right time in a good area. We'd like more space but the next house up is too expensive & we don't want overextend ourselves. I suspect one day we'll build on to this place. Or they will finally run water & sewer along the street and I'll sell half the garden for $150k & then build on!

Novocastrian

I can't beat 14' but the first house we bought in Toronto (off Roncey) was only 17' wide. It was a bit deeper than that though (I can't remember a number) and it was three storeys high plus an unfinished basement.

R I C H

Ah, but I'd have to compromise on pension benefits, lengthy vacation entitlement and job security. Probably the same reasons you chose not to earn more in the private sector

Oh, and the horse would hate a shelter under 1,000 sq/ft.

Novocastrian

OK. How does tenure, the whole summer off, work from home at your discretion and a (hopefully) cast iron defined benefit pension sound to you? Plus no need to have a horse.