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Getting close to thinking of taking a little profit in the form of 100 acres of prime forested property with 1500 feet of lake frontage, ten minutes from a major hospital and about an hour and a half from downtown Toronto. Under 23 bitcoins at current prices.

Thank you Bitcoin.

Do it!
Peace and serenity now is more important than pie in the sky, especially when we are not there (in the future).

Now is actually months away. This is just the land. I'd still have to build a house,

Personally I wouldn't trust any builder that's not approaching retirement age. Brick layer training used to take 7 years. Now it's three months. I've seen too many people suffering from new build badly build houses to trust anyone young.

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Around here they build houses using OSP wood.
When I first saw it, I was horrified, but, apparently, they are OK for at least 50 years (if no grade 4-5 hurricanes).
Will not stand for hundreds, most likely.

How old are the builders building them? Experienced 50/60 year olds, or 16 year old dickheads? How do you know how old the builders were when you view it? The salesman's never going to admit it was built by dickheads.

Totally agree, I would never hire a young guy to build the new house, but how many times you build a new house for yourself? Maybe not even a single time.
I did it just once so far and at that time I did not know anything about houses.
It (and the roof) survived a direct hit by Ike, though, which was very large (in diameter) hurricane, but winds at 110 mph or less on landing.
Builders here 100% employ mexican contractors/workers, typically middle age. They are experienced, but there is not much choice otherwise.
You hire a contractor for the job, who knows who he/she would employ-you have almost no say in that.