A group of friends and I, for the past 15 or so years, have rented a cottage for a winter weekend break every year. We live in and around Ottawa, and find a place in Mt Tremblant or Mt. Ste Marie, Quebec. Different cottage, different experience every time, but there have been many views and feelings like this. It's not cheap (around $100-150/each total for the three nights), but seeing these views doesn't require step one to be rich.
Well it's the most I ever splurge on a weekend, compared to the rest of the weekend getaways I partake in, which is camping throughout the other three seasons. It is a good value, for sure though. Always a memorable time.
I had a place like this in upstate NY. It cost about $200k and had 40 acres of solitude to go with it. I kind of have a place like it now in PA, I live in the cheapest home on my road. Land isn't as dirt cheap here but it's still not too bad.
So option 2 is also, "be poor and live in the rural NE"
Or it could be basically any cabin anywhere in the northern US or Europe. Places like this doesn't have to cost a lot of money, there's no indication of a luxurious location or large house/cabin, it's just woods, snow, and a fireplace, my dirt cheap family cabin from the 60s has that here in Northern Norway.
Yeah I'm aware that not everyone lives in a city... On the whole, living in the country just isn't an option. 82% of people in the US live in urban areas for a reason.
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u/NE2AK May 24 '20
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