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I recently had a random observation. My folks own a cottage 1.5h away from smack middle of Toronto (I drive it often) We call it a cottage because it has no r
by pxue 3y ago
I recently had a random observation.
My folks own a cottage 1.5h away from smack middle of Toronto (I drive it often)
We call it a cottage because it has no running water, no broadband, overhead electricity lines that literally gets knocked out during bad storms.
All of our neighbors are in the same boat. Thousands of southern rural Ontarians live like this.
The difference is that they live this way full year round.
We are so behind as a country in infrastructure that it's not even funny.
To be developing those rural land you talk about will probably cost $100B over three decades at the rate we build things.
I'm not hopeful.
- moltar 3y agoYeah my anecdote is similar. My parents lived 25 minute drive from Kanata (Ottawa suburb), a proper tech hub. The drive was over rural roads, not highways . And they had no infra. Internet was a terrible satellite. Water pump. Septic tank. It wasn’t wilderness or anything. Just farmlands, mostly occupied by non-farming owners at that point.