WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.740 Hey folks, Curtis Stone here. We're going to carry on our video series where we're looking at 00:03.740 --> 00:09.040 all the provinces and states in North America and analyzing them to the lens of homesteading. 00:09.540 --> 00:18.580 And today we're going to be looking at Newfoundland in Canada. And yeah, it's a maritime climate. 00:21.400 --> 00:25.980 Similar weather to all the places around here. Main experience is some of it for sure. 00:26.600 --> 00:34.420 But Newfoundland is up there as far as how north it is. If you just look at 00:35.780 --> 00:43.820 Canada as a whole, it's pretty close to the Arctic Circle. And so it's a lot closer than 00:45.380 --> 00:50.760 everywhere else that most people live in except up in here in Labrador. But 00:51.700 --> 00:54.700 a lot of people don't live in Labrador. They live in 00:58.560 --> 01:01.960 they live in these areas where the where the bigger cities are. And actually, 01:02.080 --> 01:06.260 isn't there a bigger city? Yeah, Labrador City, I mean, it's small. 01:08.800 --> 01:13.760 Yeah, it's pretty barren up here in Labrador actually. Look at the Canadian Shield. 01:15.340 --> 01:16.940 It's trees are sparse. 01:20.220 --> 01:27.480 The weather can be harsh. So let's look at what would you say is the no-go zone of Newfoundland. 01:27.840 --> 01:36.200 It's St. John's, but hardly really because I mean, the population here is generally really, 01:36.200 --> 01:42.180 really low. And so I wouldn't take this too much of the grain of salt. There aren't, 01:42.180 --> 01:49.940 you know, the thing about many other parts of Canada outside of Toronto, say, or Vancouver 01:50.820 --> 01:57.760 is Edmonton and Calgary, I would include Winnipeg for sure. But, you know, the smaller cities in 01:57.760 --> 02:05.780 Canada, you just don't have the same kind of demoralized people. They're demoralized in 02:05.780 --> 02:11.780 some ways, but as demoralized as say urban metropolitan areas where you've got a lot of 02:12.880 --> 02:17.420 cultural diversity and, you know, cultural diversity is mostly just a load of BS. 02:18.480 --> 02:23.300 People actually don't get along and that's why they segregate into areas and cities. They 02:23.300 --> 02:30.580 vulcanize in their own ways. And so places like St. John's don't have that amount of animosity 02:30.580 --> 02:36.720 that's a place like Atlanta, Georgia would have, not even close. So when you think about the threat 02:36.720 --> 02:44.180 of socioeconomics, which is a scale of permanence, I believe it's number four, you need to factor those 02:44.180 --> 02:48.340 things in and they're just realistic considerations. But so, you know, as far as Newfoundland 02:48.860 --> 02:53.520 is concerned, it's not too much of an issue. If you found a homestead in and around these 02:53.520 --> 02:59.520 areas, I'm sure it would be fine. You don't have the risk of absolute zombie apocalypse 02:59.520 --> 03:02.880 when there's no food in the grocery stores. I mean, there's just so few people out here and 03:02.880 --> 03:08.920 there's so much land that, you know, in a way, it's very safe. It's a very safe place in some 03:08.920 --> 03:15.960 ways. In others though, the thing that I have found just in, you know, my consulting over many, 03:16.140 --> 03:23.280 many years, getting to know people that are homesteading in this area, Nova Scotia, certainly 03:23.280 --> 03:30.940 New Brunswick, similar, is that there's just not a lot of young people and that really weighs on you. 03:31.500 --> 03:39.300 And I'm not all that young, I'm 45, but you know, when you look around and two-thirds of the people 03:39.300 --> 03:45.440 are 70 plus, it's just, and I don't know if that's the real statistics, but that's just what 03:45.440 --> 03:53.420 I've observed in these areas of Canada. And that can be kind of, you know, concerning because if you 03:53.420 --> 03:58.400 think about the socioeconomics of that, like much of talking about sort of urban metropolitan, 03:59.540 --> 04:04.460 potentially violent scenarios, it's in this, in this kind of apocalyptic scenario, 04:04.460 --> 04:08.580 it's not so much that it's violent. It's just so much that there's just so many people 04:08.580 --> 04:12.780 around you that are needy and you're in a minority of people who can provide 04:13.520 --> 04:17.900 otherwise the Canadian welfare system provides. But that welfare system is, 04:18.280 --> 04:22.760 there are all these systems are collapsing, in my opinion. And so take that for what it's worth, 04:22.900 --> 04:27.560 but it's called clout and piven. And that's what's happening is they're making all services 04:27.560 --> 04:31.140 from the government grind to a halt. They're making them ineffective. And this is really 04:31.140 --> 04:37.440 happening in Canada, especially with CRA and some other organizations, they just cannot 04:37.440 --> 04:44.860 manage. The bureaucracy is unmanageable and costly. But anyways, that's a whole other rant 04:44.860 --> 04:50.960 for another time. But so, you know, that's as we generically say, the main area you're going to 04:50.960 --> 04:55.120 avoid, but there's a lot of other areas you can explore. Let's just look at what good areas that 04:55.120 --> 05:02.120 we pick. They're all coastal, especially on Newfoundland here on the island, is that 05:02.120 --> 05:06.920 the higher the higher the highest ground is going to be in the center, right? As is most islands. 05:07.980 --> 05:12.880 As you get away from it, so you can see this ridge here. And then it starts to go down here, 05:13.160 --> 05:18.120 kind of deltas out in a way. So all the good regions are going to be coastal. 05:19.160 --> 05:25.720 I wonder if the interior side of the ocean might be beneficial based on weather systems 05:25.720 --> 05:32.160 coming out from the outside of the ocean. But I don't have a lot of experience living in these 05:32.160 --> 05:37.660 climates. And I visited them just a number of times. So, you know, take it for what it's worth. 05:37.860 --> 05:42.740 But I do analyze a lot of topography and can definitely find out certain things. But just 05:42.740 --> 05:51.180 by looking at them, it's interesting, all this, that's the rocky stuff. And these are 05:51.180 --> 05:56.620 where you have some of these coastlines that are just gorgeous where it's like rocky. Yeah, yeah, 05:56.620 --> 06:03.660 yeah, this kind of stuff. It's just beautiful. These coastlines are so cool. And you're just on 06:03.660 --> 06:10.180 this big shield of rock. Look at that. And that's why there's so few trees up here. And so I wouldn't 06:10.180 --> 06:15.740 necessarily pick this type of landscape in Newfoundland to homestead on because there's 06:15.740 --> 06:22.720 going to be very little soil. It's just, it's worse bedrock than I have. It's just shield. So I would 06:22.720 --> 06:30.940 avoid places that have that kind of topography. And so yeah, in here, we're into the trees, right? 06:31.020 --> 06:38.000 You can see that now we've got more soil here because there's more biomass. End of a road, 06:38.000 --> 06:46.800 always nice, big fields, huge pond, total private access in, you know, you got to go all the way 06:46.800 --> 06:51.760 through the home to get to the end of the line, which just looks like where some of the infrastructure 06:51.760 --> 07:00.320 is. Okay, that's updated. Mostly raw land, probably just a field that somebody owns as 07:00.320 --> 07:05.180 property and they just lease this part out to have some farmer run. Other than that, 07:05.180 --> 07:10.120 they come out here and hunt every now and then, explore. You know, who knows, but 07:11.720 --> 07:19.260 how big is that one? That's 45 acres. Yeah, so you're kind of getting into those areas where 07:19.260 --> 07:24.560 there's more soil, right? You can see these kind of outcropping areas. They're really cool to 07:24.560 --> 07:31.740 visit and explore, but not necessarily. You're just so exposed, right? There's, for any Atlantic 07:31.740 --> 07:37.340 system coming in, you're just exposed. So you don't want that. You want to have trees, you want to have 07:39.640 --> 07:45.000 topography around you that benefits you. You want to have, and we got some of that here, 07:45.120 --> 07:53.000 right on the coast. Man, you'd have such a cool view here because yeah, you're off the really 07:53.000 --> 07:57.700 bony stuff. It's still kind of bony around here, but you got trees though. You got a wicked pond. 07:59.080 --> 08:04.180 Wow. You would have, look at that. Oh, you wouldn't have a view to the ocean. Oh, too bad. 08:06.780 --> 08:13.000 Because right here, that view to the ocean would be epic. And you're high upright. I mean, as far as, 08:13.840 --> 08:20.640 you know, you're 70 over here, 63 up at this high point, you're 92 meters off the ocean. So 08:20.640 --> 08:28.680 you're well out of the danger zone. However, you are in the feeling the front, you know, like, 08:29.220 --> 08:32.160 I don't know what hurricanes are like out here. I don't know if they get them much, but, 08:32.220 --> 08:37.160 you know, big systems that come in, it could hammer you. And so I'm always kind of nervous 08:37.160 --> 08:41.100 living that close to the ocean. That's not my preference, but a lot of people do. So, 08:42.140 --> 08:45.880 oh, look at this. Newfoundland kind of does the similar thing that Quebec does 08:45.880 --> 08:50.640 with the way it kind of subdivides its peri-urban areas. That's cool. I like that. 08:51.240 --> 08:56.620 It's a bit more of an old school thing, because, you know, this is the old school Canada. There's 08:56.620 --> 09:03.560 some of the first places people went and settled. Didn't stay long though. Well, people 09:03.560 --> 09:08.460 stayed, but not a lot of people stayed. Most people went west. They're going towards Toronto 09:08.460 --> 09:19.760 or the other big cities in Canada. Wait. I looked at this one. That's this one. We looked at that one. 09:22.960 --> 09:27.920 Okay. Where's our 10 acres? Was that what we were looking at? Yeah. 09:32.620 --> 09:37.300 So this is 10 acres. And it's the one that's not quite there, but that's cool. It's a cool 09:37.300 --> 09:41.940 property. I mean, you've got, you know, maybe not having to view the ocean is good as far as 09:41.940 --> 09:48.440 weather systems coming in, but you've got aspect to the south on the house. It's southeast. That's 09:48.440 --> 09:54.880 ideal. This one's a little bony around you, but you do have trees and you do have this pond, 09:55.040 --> 10:00.100 which is really cool. Governor's pond. So that's 10 acres. And let's go look at our 23 acres. 10:03.200 --> 10:13.220 Oh, this is cool. That's a nice little wow. Holy, that's beautiful. The way that's laid out. Easy access 10:13.220 --> 10:18.360 and turnaround. Not a lot of infrastructure, but the basics to get you started, you could easily 10:18.360 --> 10:22.520 just develop this is your zone one, you could just develop everything around there, all your 10:22.520 --> 10:26.920 buildings and infrastructure fields, you might want to consider putting some stuff up here. 10:27.340 --> 10:33.700 It looks like you get kind of marshy here. But yeah, you might just clear some tree areas. 10:36.140 --> 10:39.360 And you'd want to, you'd want to look at the ground here because it might, this might have 10:39.360 --> 10:42.180 been what happened here is they just logged that and then that's what was there. So 10:42.180 --> 10:46.100 you always want to analyze your ground before you get in and get modifying it. 10:46.620 --> 10:50.740 Because if that's going to, if, if this is going to end up like that, then you wouldn't, 10:50.740 --> 10:53.580 you don't necessarily want to go cut those trees down. Maybe you might want to go, 10:54.820 --> 10:59.240 maybe you might want to actually go closer to the house in here. But it looks like this, 10:59.380 --> 11:03.580 you got some of that boniness around here. But the thing is, if there's trees growing, 11:03.900 --> 11:08.580 you got soil. So that's, that's what's really important. But you've got this wicked little 11:08.580 --> 11:13.480 micro, you have many micro climates on this property, this north side of this ridge, south 11:13.480 --> 11:22.740 side of this ridge, exposed area here, cool damp areas here and here. This in the summer 11:22.740 --> 11:26.980 would be a neat place to hang out because you'd have Western shade, you know, as the sun sets. 11:27.540 --> 11:32.200 So, you know, thinking about things like that when you look at properties is always kind of fun. 11:33.000 --> 11:38.140 But yeah, that's, that's Newfoundland. It's a, it's a big area, Newfoundland Labrador. We didn't 11:38.140 --> 11:44.180 look at Labrador. It's very few people live up there. Just look, you know, so yes, you can 11:44.180 --> 11:48.580 go up there, but it's, you know, you need people too, right? And if you don't have people, 11:48.580 --> 11:54.800 that's a big thing. And if two thirds of the people that are around you are old and no longer 11:54.800 --> 11:59.180 in their productive age, it's, you know, and you have children, that's a, that's a big consideration. 11:59.640 --> 12:03.240 And that's why a lot of people leave these areas. And so it's sort of self-perpetuating. 12:03.340 --> 12:07.720 I don't even know if there's a lot of migration going in these areas. But yeah, 12:07.880 --> 12:11.380 we'll leave it there for this one, folks. If you guys like this video, smash the like, share 12:11.380 --> 12:15.500 it. Let me know in the comments where you want us to go next and check out that web link 12:15.500 --> 12:20.280 I've got in here, a little video where I'll show you how to use Google Earth. 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