A recent story about a Creston man getting hassled for letting his disabled daughter live in an RV on his acreage has led me to question this once again...
Link here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trailer-creston-woman-family-fifth-wheel-andrea-1.5446349
I live in the Regional District of Central Kootenay also, but where I live there are no By-Laws. None.
I wanted to move away from the Strata control of my condo, and as such did my homework in this regard... There are very few places left in BC without By-Laws.
I live in one of them. And can do as I want, provided I don't break criminal code law.
While this house is driving my nuts, and depleting my funds, I can state with authority that I can do whatever the fuck I want to do with this property...
I live pretty rural now, but even a few miles North of me, and a few miles South of me, have By-Laws also. I don't... Not here.
I have a commercial vehicle which I park in my yard, which is why I checked before I bought this dump...
Still, this is a great neighbourhood! One neighbour loves my old Kenworth, and the other maybe not so much! :laugh:
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I live in the Regional District of Central Kootenay also, but where I live there are no By-Laws. None.
You say that as if that's never going to change....
WRONG.
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I live in the Regional District of Central Kootenay also, but where I live there are no By-Laws. None.
You say that as if that's never going to change....
WRONG.
It will definitely change.
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I live in the Regional District of Central Kootenay also, but where I live there are no By-Laws. None.
You say that as if that's never going to change....
WRONG.
It will definitely change.
You got that right.
I'm not saying that it can't, or won't, change here... Might be difficult to implement that though, since this area is unincorporated.
I think things work OK here, the way they are. Truly problematic people would most likely get run outta town here, to be honest...
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I think things work OK here, the way they are. Truly problematic people would most likely get run outta town here, to be honest...
Is unincorporated the same as "Crown Land"
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No. In Canada, Crown Land is 'generally' publicly accessible land owned by the Gov...
An unincorporated town, like where I live, means that there are no local, or even regional, bodies governing it, even though private land ownership works the same way as it does across the entire country.
Oz being so vast, you must have a similar equivalent for those living out of city limits...
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I don't think so... we just have crown land as far as I know and squatters camps occupy some of it. I don't know everything about our laws though.
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I don't think so... we just have crown land as far as I know and squatters camps occupy some of it. I don't know everything about our laws though.
Australia has unincorporated areas, but they are in remote locations.
Herman is right, they do exist in OZ, but not very common...
It does seem like unincorporated areas are much more common in the US/Canada though, than in other countries... Many Euro nations don't even really have such a concept, but they generally all have a higher population density also.
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It does seem like unincorporated areas are much more common in the US/Canada though, than in other countries...
I haven't heard of it in East Asia.
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I haven't heard of it in East Asia.
I don't believe a similar concept exists there...
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I haven't heard of it in East Asia.
I don't believe a similar concept exists there...
Probably not.
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Probably not.
Here, this means I am only governed by Provincial regulations. No By-Laws.
It also means that while I do pay property tax for things like Fire/Policing, there are no 'city services' provided here... Most of us pay a private guy to haul away our trash from the can once a week...
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Probably not.
Here, this means I am only governed by Provincial regulations. No By-Laws.
It also means that while I do pay property tax for things like Fire/Policing, there are no 'city services' provided here... Most of us pay a private guy to haul away our trash from the can once a week...
We know people who live in unincorporated areas.
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We know people who live in unincorporated areas.
Contrary to popular belief, the banjo's do
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We know people who live in unincorporated areas.
Contrary to popular belief, the banjo's do
ac_dunno
You're up late Mel, or perhaps you're up early
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ac_dunno
You're up late Mel, or perhaps you're up early
I revert to insane schedules when left to my own devices...
I just finished prepping another closet for paint two hours ago, so now I get my drink on...
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ac_dunno
You're up late Mel, or perhaps you're up early
I revert to insane schedules when left to my own devices...
I just finished prepping another closet for paint two hours ago, so now I get my drink on...
I see, it's 8:55 pm Wednesday night here in Tainan, Taiwan.
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I see, it's 8:55 pm Wednesday night here in Tainan, Taiwan.
It's 05:00 here in BC, so I should be in bed, but hit up the prep and painting work late into the night, so now I drink, and live like a Vampire! :laugh:
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I see, it's 8:55 pm Wednesday night here in Tainan, Taiwan.
It's 05:00 here in BC, so I should be in bed, but hit up the prep and painting work late into the night, so now I drink, and live like a Vampire! :laugh:
I'll have to go back to cold, snowy Canada in a few days..
It was twenty four degrees today....it'll be twenty seven on Friday..
I'll miss the weather and seeing my relatives again.
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I'll have to go back to cold, snowy Canada in a few days..
It was twenty four degrees today....it will be twenty seven on Friday..
I'll miss the weather and seeing my relatives again.
I know you do.
Consider yourself lucky though... When my family emigrated here in the 1950's, travel was via ship... to Halifax... and then by rail to Vancouver.
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I'll have to go back to cold, snowy Canada in a few days..
It was twenty four degrees today....it will be twenty seven on Friday..
I'll miss the weather and seeing my relatives again.
I know you do.
Consider yourself lucky though... When my family emigrated here in the 1950's, travel was via ship... to Halifax... and then by rail to Vancouver.
I remember Bricktop saying how long it took to get to Australia when he immigrated there as a child in the late fifties.
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I remember Bricktop saying how long it took to get to Australia when he immigrated there as a child in the late fifties.
Most people still moved around on ships at that time...
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I remember Bricktop saying how long it took to get to Australia when he immigrated there as a child in the late fifties.
Most people still moved around on ships at that time...
Read this story... There is a vid in the news story too.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/every-mans-caravan-is-his-castle-as-wa-landowner-fights-to-live-in-middle-of-nowhere/ar-AAutDL4?ocid=sf
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I see, it's 8:55 pm Wednesday night here in Tainan, Taiwan.
It's 05:00 here in BC, so I should be in bed, but hit up the prep and painting work late into the night, so now I drink, and live like a Vampire! :laugh:
I'll have to go back to cold, snowy Canada in a few days..
It was twenty four degrees today....it'll be twenty seven on Friday..
I'll miss the weather and seeing my relatives again.
Try 42.9 like it was here yesterday.
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I see, it's 8:55 pm Wednesday night here in Tainan, Taiwan.
It's 05:00 here in BC, so I should be in bed, but hit up the prep and painting work late into the night, so now I drink, and live like a Vampire! :laugh:
I'll have to go back to cold, snowy Canada in a few days..
It was twenty four degrees today....it'll be twenty seven on Friday..
I'll miss the weather and seeing my relatives again.
Try 42.9 like it was here yesterday.
Even in the summer, Taiwan doesn't get that hot..
But, it's very humid nine months of the year..
I like the pleasant winter climate here.
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I hate it when it gets into the high 30's here...
My biggest problem with that kind of heat, is a sweaty ass... Nobody likes a sweaty ass, but how can you minimize that in high temps?
Chapped and chaffed asses is not how people were meant to live.
North Western Europe is where us White people should have stayed... We now pay the price.
Winnipeg gets muggy in the summer too. Still, it's better than our winters, and our Indians.
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I hate it when it gets into the high 30's here...
My biggest problem with that kind of heat, is a sweaty ass... Nobody likes a sweaty ass, but how can you minimize that in high temps?
Chapped and chaffed asses is not how people were meant to live.
North Western Europe is where us White people should have stayed... We now pay the price.
It's not as hot as you think because it's NOT humid... our high temps come with DRY conditions.
humidity is the killer. It can be 24 and humid and you think you're going to die.
I do not have to suffer 42.9 because I have refrigerated air conditioning. Refrigerated air con set on DRY takes all humidity out of the house.
I also live 3-5 minutes inland from the coast and we have a beautiful sea breeze coming off the Indian Ocean called The Fremantle Doctor.
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I hate it when it gets into the high 30's here...
My biggest problem with that kind of heat, is a sweaty ass... Nobody likes a sweaty ass, but how can you minimize that in high temps?
Chapped and chaffed asses is not how people were meant to live.
North Western Europe is where us White people should have stayed... We now pay the price.
It's not as hot as you think because it's NOT humid... our high temps come with DRY conditions.
humidity is the killer. It can be 24 and humid and you think you're going to die.
I do not have to suffer 42.9 because I have refrigerated air conditioning. Refrigerated air con set on DRY takes all humidity out of the house.
I also live 3-5 minutes inland from the coast and we have a beautiful sea breeze coming off the Indian Ocean called The Fremantle Doctor.
Sea breezes are lovely.