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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, although in the spring I could still drop a trailer on the land for weekend use.

The big problem is converting my coins into dollars and paying capital gains taxes. I don't have (nor want) a bank account. Luckily I have one paper wallet (my largest) which can be traced to my identity, containing about 30 coins. Hopefully that will cover it.

You can build a house somewhere you want if you own the land? Wow ... here you can build only houses in special areas, which are flaged as housing areas from the goverment. You can buy property, but you aren't allowed to build something on it... you are lucky.

Where do you live that has such Draconian property laws?

In Germany... Here you can buy special properties, where you can build houses. But they cost 10 to 50 times more then a normal property. For example here you have to pay for a square meter housing property 500 €. There you can build a house, with some rules from the city or village or whatever you live. But I have to say, there is power and water and suage already there.
But you are not allowed to build house outside cities. With one exception, if you are a farmer, maybe than the authorities allow you to build there. But you need always an allowance to build some thing. We call this here a "Baugenehmigung".

You need this for basically all you want to build. Even a pool (at some size?).

Crazy... You are very lucky...

In the US we can build a house on just about any property but they are starting to get weird about building very close to rivers and such..
You might not be able to build a house closer than 100 feet from a river..

You can’t build houses in the countryside?
That’s crazy.. Insanity..

I know... I think, it's because we have little area for a quarter of the population of the USA. (round about 1/30 of the the area of the USA)

We have pretty tight planning regulations in UK too. To be honest, I don't really mind - it helps to prevent anyone from building a poorly designed, ugly piece-of-shit house in the middle of beautiful countryside with no consideration for their neighbours or impacts on landscape quality. But that's just me.