Another thing that makes me shake my head Werner.
In the GTA 1600-1800sq is considered "small".
When I got married our first house was 1500sq. Few years later I was 30 (1994), getting caught in the trap and being the family man I was, making sure my Italian bride was leaving the dream of white picket fences and big houses ( the typical Italina princess dream). We paid 270k for that monstonsity in 1993. Today its probably selling for quite a bit more than 1 million.
Here I am a short 45 minutes to the same area, in home that in that area, would go for million(s). At 1800sq we feel its a little too large. Its got amazing flow and it's deceptively large. A lot of people think its larger than it is. We were shopping for smaller, but here, as there, as Hunter John is seeing on his slice. Those nice homes, are getting knocked down for large, square boxes with no life/character. Finding "small" bungalows....they are few and far between.
Not far us ( 3-5minutes away) theres a tiny little hamlet of about 20 homes called Valentia. Theres a horse farm, likely been around forever. Guess sometime a few years ago, they parcelled off a bit of property a long the concession. Would look to be .5 to 1 acre lots. Guess whats being built on those lots. Square boxes with no life/charm I would guess easily 2500-3000 sq.
This is what $600,000 can get you now ( assuming it doesn't go over ask, good luck with that :)...), its just a couple minutes away.
https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/S...Rural-Mariposa
I have no doubt I could put a for sale sign up tomorrow, make a ton of "profit" and move somewhere further away from the insanity that is life in the GTA. I have kids in Oshawa/Ajax that themselves are just striking out, trying to find their way in the utter insanity that still need their dad, and at some point hope to find work, that keeps my mind busy and me interested (don't care what it pays, theres far more to life than the greenback) and being a lemming in the rat race.
