The growing cost of housing and interminable commutes are leading some to trade city life for the mountains, the seaside, towns and country roads
. Some don’t even see it as a compromise. To them, a simpler life is a successful life and they are redefining what it means to live in rural Canada. They are rural by choice. Five of them explain to The Globe and Mail how they made the switch.Bryan Picard has been running The Bite House in the hills above Baddeck, N.S., for six years.
To him, living here feels like home. It also helps that his family has joined him: His father, Moe Picard, is his “right-hand man,” the sourdough bread maker and gardener, while his girlfriend, Marie Isabelle Whitty Lampron, a fashion designer who has a sewing studio on the property, serves.Emily Beach, program architect for Traction on Demand, now lives in Nelson, in B.C.'s interior.The day Emily Beach’s boss announced he was opening a satellite office in the southern interior of B.C.
“It all made sense to me: rock, sky, mountain, water,” the 47-year-old says. “I grew up in a conservative immigrant Chinese family and in many ways I learned or was taught to be afraid of the outdoors.”Chen now lives in the Rocky Mountain town of Canmore, Alta., which allows him to explore rugged landscapes and lakes.Three months later, he sold his five-bedroom century-old home in Ontario and he and his partner bought a tiny condo with a mountain view in Canmore, Alta.
And just as the locals do, for the first time in his life, he’s even starting to get excited about winter. “It's a whole different world with all sort of ways to nourish different parts of myself that I had no idea existed until I moved here.”Amanda McNaughton/Handout A grant from the Ontario Arts Council for northern artists has also made it possible for her to survive while advancing her studies.
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