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Originally Posted by thewave46
…and yet they don’t.
Weird, huh?
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There has been a trickle of people moving to pretty rural areas. The remote pockets of Eastern Ontario (which are actually a lot more isolated than you'd think) are currently having a much more active real estate market than ever before and there's been an unprecedented boom in building permits being issued in places like Plevna and Kaladar. Many of these municipalities recorded double digit growth in the 2021 census after decades of decline.
It seems a big trend in this region is modern day homesteading, of all things. Which seems to be a peculiar mix of people on both the hard left and the hard right.
I don't think its a big trend, really more of a trickle, but there is definitely an appetite for very rural living.
There was a similar wave in the 1970s, the "back to the land movement" it was called, which was a significant thing in the Kingston region. There's a bunch of small scale farms that you see at farmers markets in Kingston which were founded around that time.