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Have a good trip!

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Have a fabulous time - safe travels!

:)

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Bon Voyage JS!

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Enjoy the drive and the trip. Safe travels.

Last year I rented a car in France and had to get snow chains for it due to us going to a resort in the Alps. Ended up never needing chains and my UK and French cousins were so surprised when I said I had never used chains in Canada. Believe it or not there are YouTube videos on how to put them on. I think above about 70 km/h or so is not recommended but then you're likely driving on snow covered roads anyway.

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MIL flaked out on watching the house & aquariums so we have postponed leaving as its too late to leave today.

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Sigh.

Hope the snow stays away for you to still make the trip.. albeit later than hoped.

:fingerscrossed:

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I didn't think we had $1m+ houses in the area. I was wrong.

5250 sq ft, $1,295,000

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Nah, not for me thanks. All that money and they have a plastic surround bathtub?

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No lift either :lol:

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That's a lot of cushions (photo 37).

Not my cup of tea house wise and to top it off it backs on to a golf course which would be the ultimate deal killer for me.

Looking at its location you'll be the taxi for your kids a lot. Public transit doesn't appear to be nearby.

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Think of all those executive weekends for golfing enthusiasts you could host.

There is a bus that runs right down that road, astonishingly, every 30 minutes into Dieppe and on to the Mall. And another half hourly bus that passes the end of that road about 700m away so not as isolated as I thought at first glance.

The downside is there's a long driveway to plow, lots of grass to cut and the potential to be plagued by weeds. Maybe the odd golfball crashing through the window. "Can we have our ball back please?"

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Where is your entrepreneur spirit? Look you collect all the golf balls that land on your property. You sell them on Kijiji or get the kids to set up a used golf ball stand. With the money you can make you can then afford to have the drive plowed, grass cut and weeds tended to.

Simples.

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I lost it watching Only Fools & Horses and Budgie. :nod:

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There is only one in Gatineau (a city of over 250,000). It's a lot of house with its own beach on the Gatineau River.

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This one?

https://www.point2homes.com/content/...tings/city.jpg

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Stopped at Medford, Oregon for the night. It rained and heavy rain most of the time from the time we left Vancouver, BC at 4am until about an hour before Medford. 900 km of rain...lol

Google says 12 hours rest of the way so 14 ish with gas and break stops.

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Road trips can be tough without the heavy rain. Well done for getting as far as you did. 🚗 🚗

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Woah! You did well to get so far - especially in the rain!

:thumbsup:

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That's a picture of parliament, in Ottawa, taken from the Gatineau side of the Ottawa River.

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Yes. I thought you were kidding about it. :lol:

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I wasn't kidding. Nice-looking house but odd room sizes.

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...C%C3%B4te-Azur

And only two bathrooms.

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Hey but it was inspired by the villas of Tuscany. Two washrooms but room to park 8 cars. :confused::confused:

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It does seem strange. Maybe designed to suit childless couples that like to live in luxury and have the occasional dinner party/house guest?

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Eeuuuuu Curtains right next to the loo. Needs a good aim and no splashing. I suppose everyone pees in the pool

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Here's a really horrible house for far too much money

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...Ontario-K0K3C0

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Must have been a bugger getting that desk up the staircase.

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Oh dear lord what happened here?

https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...0K1H0-Brighton

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Be fair...there are no curtains right next to the lavvie.

Maybe it will look better when they finish the moat.

I thought it was lego at first.

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There was a rumour that Ontarians have poor taste.. but where's the evidence?

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I love that house, the decor....privacy in the bath, but not on the bog though.

Didn't know Canada had gypsies?

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A lot of house for the money! Nice riverside location too.

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Lordy lordy lordy. It really looks like something you'd see in Chechnya or somewhere like that.

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or here

https://goo.gl/maps/AXbd8oJyLRk

Bats is doing a great job finding the fugly in small town Ontario.

That one in Brighton has this place by the main road in front of it.

https://goo.gl/maps/LihcJdWTVxj at least it is a landmark to describe the retrofitted building you live in converted into apartments.

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I quite like that Romanian? street, looks a little Dudley, fairytale.

It's a mission you know, fugly finding.

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Fairytale is the word! It's definitely the showpiece of the town.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.01339...!3m1!1e3?hl=en

Upon looking around at a few spots in the town it seems like a nice place, some parts not as affluent, but even those areas without pavement have some charm. It isn't choked with cars and trucks, or derelict vehicles, which is refreshing.

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Houses on either side of the Gatineau River, or on the Ottawa River, are almost always the most expensive in town. You could have just told me the price and I could have stuck a pin into a map for the three probable locations.

Housing just isn't that expensive here. My 4-bed detached in a nice area is probably worth $270k tops. If we moved it five miles down the road to the Ottawa side, the price would be way higher.

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That's very affordable, especially if it's a nice area.

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I'd say you're doing a great job on your Google mapping too! How did you find that street in Romania!

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Dudley :lol:

New thread, per chance?