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Moving north - what's life like? Any tips? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by timberwolf1021@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/ontario@lemmy.ca

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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

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[–] Mushroom@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] timberwolf1021@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 months ago

"Northern Ontario" begins around Parry Sound, for most purposes.

The political gradient is . . . weird. Much of the north proper actually leans orange when voting, but more for labour rights/rural rights/indigenous rights reasons than for support of LGBTQ+ rights. Down near Gravenhurst, I think you're mostly looking more at center-right. The best way to find out for sure what you'd be facing, if no one chimes in who's actually from that area, is to keep an eye on local news sources for a while and, given your specific concerns, talk to local Pride groups (from the looks of it, muskokapride.com would be one place to start).

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