Originally Posted by sibantam (Post 12172555)

Hello everybody

My wife and I are in the process of selling our house and then plan to do some travelling before hopefully starting a new life in British Columbia near my wife's Father and Stepmom.
The plan is to set up a Yoga/Fitness/Outdoors retreat (my wife's a Yoga teacher and I'm a Personal Trainer with a military background). We would like a property with a couple of acres within about an hour of the nearest town but we plan eventually to try and become as off-grid as possible.
Any suggestions on towns/villages, any guidance on becoming self-sufficient or any general guidance at all would be greatly appreciated.

Look forward to chatting and learning from others - Simon.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12172620)

@Oink;

One for you ;)

(This is my first time seeing if this function works :lol:)

Originally Posted by sibantam (Post 12172555)

Hello everybody

My wife and I are in the process of selling our house and then plan to do some travelling before hopefully starting a new life in British Columbia near my wife's Father and Stepmom.
The plan is to set up a Yoga/Fitness/Outdoors retreat (my wife's a Yoga teacher and I'm a Personal Trainer with a military background). We would like a property with a couple of acres within about an hour of the nearest town but we plan eventually to try and become as off-grid as possible.
Any suggestions on towns/villages, any guidance on becoming self-sufficient or any general guidance at all would be greatly appreciated.

Look forward to chatting and learning from others - Simon.

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 12172746)

Welcome to the forum. I'd suggest looking at Vancouver Island. There are be lots of rural areas that should be practical as they're not so far away from civilization, plus, because the weather and scenary are the best in the country you'll have people willing to travel and stay there. In addition, the Island has a that sort of hippy dippy vibe so a venture like yours wouldn't be out of place. Good luck.

Originally Posted by mikelincs (Post 12172750)

They won't have much luck unless they already have a visa in place or one of them is a Canadian citizen, there isn't a visa for 'moving and becoming self sufficient'.

Originally Posted by R I C H (Post 12172754)

You can get a TWP and be self employed though. Same difference.

Originally Posted by sibantam (Post 12172555)

Hello everybody

My wife and I are in the process of selling our house and then plan to do some travelling before hopefully starting a new life in British Columbia near my wife's Father and Stepmom.

The plan is to set up a Yoga/Fitness/Outdoors retreat (my wife's a Yoga teacher and I'm a Personal Trainer with a military background).

We would like a property with a couple of acres within about an hour of the nearest town but we plan eventually to try and become as off-grid as possible.

Any suggestions on towns/villages, any guidance on becoming self-sufficient or any general guidance at all would be greatly appreciated.

Look forward to chatting and learning from others - Simon.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12172756)

Can you still do that? I don't think so.

Originally Posted by christmasoompa (Post 12172627)

It won't. Because this is BE, not Facebook. You can't tag people here! :lol:

Originally Posted by sibantam (Post 12172555)

Hello everybody

My wife and I are in the process of selling our house and then plan to do some travelling before hopefully starting a new life in British Columbia near my wife's Father and Stepmom.
The plan is to set up a Yoga/Fitness/Outdoors retreat (my wife's a Yoga teacher and I'm a Personal Trainer with a military background). We would like a property with a couple of acres within about an hour of the nearest town but we plan eventually to try and become as off-grid as possible.
Any suggestions on towns/villages, any guidance on becoming self-sufficient or any general guidance at all would be greatly appreciated.

Look forward to chatting and learning from others - Simon.

Originally Posted by sibantam (Post 12172555)

Hello everybody

My wife and I are in the process of selling our house and then plan to do some travelling before hopefully starting a new life in British Columbia near my wife's Father and Stepmom.
The plan is to set up a Yoga/Fitness/Outdoors retreat (my wife's a Yoga teacher and I'm a Personal Trainer with a military background). We would like a property with a couple of acres within about an hour of the nearest town but we plan eventually to try and become as off-grid as possible.
Any suggestions on towns/villages, any guidance on becoming self-sufficient or any general guidance at all would be greatly appreciated.

Look forward to chatting and learning from others - Simon.

Originally Posted by R I C H (Post 12172781)

I'm only going on my experience - do current immigration options now preclude it?

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12172620)

@Oink;

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12172825)

@ mikelincs