Hey y’all! I’ve lived in southern Ontario for my entire life, but I’m planning to move up north with my wife in a year or so. We want to have a log house built on a forested 5+ acre lot, probably somewhere in the rough vicinity of Gravenhurst.
I’ve vacationed up north lots, but of course, vacationing is different from daily life. As for work up there, I’m a computational and structural biologist, and will be doing contract work for coding plus small in vitro experiments. Got a client lined up already.
So I’m curious – as a suburban girl with no experience living rurally in a small town like Gravenhurst, what do I need to know?
Also… do country diner regulars get discounts? XD
Gravenhurst is north of Toronto, but to Northerners, it’s not the north. I have not been back in decades, but you will find people to be more conservative in their outlook.
Fair enough! I have no real sense of the northern 90% of my own country, I’m embarrassed to say. XD
Would you mind elaborating on your remark about them being a bit more conservative? I realize that rural places tend to be more conservative by default, but I’m wondering whether that means center-right mind-your-own-business conservatives, or the kind that are a bit more… upfront.
Full disclosure, I’m trans and so is my wife, so it is indeed something we have to keep in mind.