Revelstoke
 

Hello

My OH and I were initially looking to move to Vancouver when our Visa's are finally sorted, but upon advice from others here on BE have been looking at other places to get a bit more for our money.....

Anyway, with this in mind we started looking all over (googlemaps!) and have come across Revelstoke which has peaked our interest.

I know they're completely different from one another but we're pretty open as to where we start our Canadian adventure.....

So, my question is this, has anybody got any info or experience of/about Revelstoke?

Thank you in advance, brookel

Re: Revelstoke
 

It's a tiny place with a ski resort .... what do you intend to do there?

edit: having looked at www.mls.ca for property listings, it doesn't look that inexpensive to me anyway ... the only places affordable (to our budget anyway, and we live in Calgary) would be mobile homes!

Re: Revelstoke
 

Yes, its a small town on a major road that has a big damn and a railway. There's not much to do there so the kids and adults do lots of drugs and booze. It's like many a small rural/isolated town in Canada, it's rather unpleasant. It's backward, small minded, xenophobic and there's a fair amount of domestic and personal abuse.

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I wonder if it has grow-ups? No self-respecting small town in BC should be without a few dozen

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Absolutely stunning place - however it is the place where a lot of Albertan Yahoos head off to the mountain for sledding and boarding and skiing.

Nice place to have a cabin, wouldn't want to live there year round.

Take a look at a place called 3 Valley Gap - amazing place to stay. :thumbup:

Re: Revelstoke
 

How come? The mobile homes look to be under $100k would you buy a house in Calgary for that? The homes look about normal to me plenty for high $200k low $300k although certainly not cheap compared to some areas i guess.

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Some are, but when you look closely there are very few homes in that price range that don't look like shacks, or at least "fixer-uppers". Very little under 500k, and plenty over 1 million $.

Anyhow, the main point of my argument was that it's a small resort town, so unless you are planning on retiring there and spending your days hiking, skiing and generally pottering about, it might not be a very good choice as a place to call home.

Re: Revelstoke
 

Agreed it's not a place i would want to live in but it does seem to have some affordable housing if Revelstoke floats your boat.
I hear that the sledding and the skiing is extreme if that is what you are into.

Re: Revelstoke
 

thank you everybody for your replies, yes, the snowboarding/sports was one of the reasons we were looking at it, i'll take a look at the links...:)

Re: Revelstoke
 

Then live in a city within reasonable commuting distance and have "weekends away" there. Hard to see how one could make a decent income living there, although I accept it would not be impossible.

Re: Revelstoke
 

The town has very nice hanging baskets.

Edit: In the summer.

One of the few places you pass through, that makes an effort with it's appearance. Note though, that we pass through :sneaky:

Re: Revelstoke
 

Realistically though you don't even pass through. If you stay on the Trans-Canada Highway you pass it by. ;)

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Fantastic cycling there-Finger Lakes to the south, Rogers Pass, best egg and bacon in Canada at the gas station just east of the "Last Spike" exhibtion.

Don't think there is much in the way of job opportunities there though.

And like many a mountain resort town, with the opening of the new ski area to the south, house prices started to take off.

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Yeah, but you can see all those pretty baskets by that band-standy thing as you pass by - and all the purdy flowers by that nice walled gateway near McDonalds :p

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Bandstand? There's a bandstand?

I guess I'm too focused on my driving, can't say I've ever noticed. :o

Re: Revelstoke
 

How are their potatoes? Lots of places have good bacon, a fair few have fresh eggs, but what makes it worth driving an hour to Marie's in Grand Valley is the quality of the potatoes. How's their bread? Lots of breakfast places are let down by using mass produced bread. It's not a lot of good being able to fry bacon and eggs if you don't get the crucial accoutrements right.

Re: Revelstoke
 

it has phenomenal skiing. i believe it has the most vertical in north america, and they get sooo much snow

i think when the ski resort opened a few years ago that would have pushed property prices up big time. its almost a carbon copy of golden in that a bunch of developers saw an awesome ski hill they could do something with. so they bought it up, start developing properties there and selling them off at exorbatent prices to rich people who dont know any better and think they are investing in the next whistler. outside of the 5 star condos they are building on the hill, the rest of the town is pretty much your average country town, with more expensive property because of the presence of the ski hill

having said that, if you want to live an outdoor life, it could be a very good place to call home. you might also want to check out Golden as well. It also has fantastic skiing, but is a little closer to Calgary, Banff and Lake Louise.

Re: Revelstoke
 

And how does one earn a living?;)