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> This opens the door to cheap remote land. Lot of cottage land in northern Ontario goes for pennies and has acres. Where do you look for this? Those don't typ
by fouc 3y ago
> This opens the door to cheap remote land. Lot of cottage land in northern Ontario goes for pennies and has acres.
Where do you look for this? Those don't typically show up on MLS/realtor.ca I'm guessing.
> you can just acorn and get way ahead.
autocorrect/typo?
- Ralo 3y agoA lot of it is private sales and there's a couple sites selling this land specifically. Not a typo, I meant like acorn away your savings.
- dredmorbius 3y ago"Squirrel away" is a far more common metaphor for that concept. Google search results for me turn up ~4k hits for "acorn away", vs. nearly a million for "squirrel away". Similarly on Google Ngram Viewer: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Csquirrel+away&year_start=1819&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Cs...> Though "acorn away" seems to have had some currency in the mid 19th century: <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Csquirrel+away&year_start=1840&year_end=1860&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=acorn+away%2Cs...> Though not in the sense you are using it best I can tell. "Squirrel away" seems to have gained in prevalence after the 1950s, for some reason.