This house and lot are incredible and I would love to build a modern home in the woods, but I feel like this article was missing a disclaimer somewhere "Step 1 be rich" - even though land in Canada may not be super expensive this project was clearly in the one to several million dollar range.
The whole tone of this article with respect to money is really frustrating. The guy is obviously very wealthy, but doesn't want to admit it. he really wants to feel as if he's sharing the struggles that normal people have, like getting a mortgage, but the "struggle" is just a vanity thing for him - he wants to feel like he's still normal, so he's pretending to have financial worries that he doesn't actually have to have.
if he could just admit that he built a silly house because he's rich AF and he can, it'd be a lot more respectable.
Sure but step 1 is reasonably attainable for lots of people working in tech in North America. It seems like a ‘have (two?) good tech jobs for a while and get a bit lucky’ money rather than ‘inherit some enormous fortune’ money.
Yes its not an outrageous amount, I was just expecting something more diy/homesteading from “Building a home in the woods” then it was more hire contractors and an architech and build a massive modern house in the woods.
