It’s been more than a little validating that twice in two days I’ve read Treehugger stories that have made me say, “Yes, that’s why we moved to Dauphin!” One of which was the announcement of a tool to calculate the Walk Score of an address. The second of which was a review of the book “The Perfect $100,000 House.” ($100,000 is supposed to imply a ridiculously low-cost house. In Toronto, yes. In Dauphin, for three of them.) These are all part of the “Why” of moving to Dauphin, yet the comments written in response to the book review suggest that several people can’t wrap their minds around the “How.”
I know that not everyone wants to pick up and move to the middle of nowhere, and that’s cool. But, the dismissing comment, “You could never find a $40K house in MyTown, USA!” is a statement that shows that some people just don’t quite get. As I wrote on Treehugger:
You can’t necessarily limit yourself to looking in your own backyard. This is a fairly extreme idea, and requires extreme measures.
If everyone could find a $40,000 house in their local area (or at least ones that weren’t in unsafe areas, as one poster pointed out) then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. That book would never have been written. Our blog would never have been created. But, for those who are willing and able to make how they live more of a priority than where they live, then you too can be living la vida Rainsberger!
We all know Why Dauphin, and in my next post I’ll share my secrets on How Dauphin came to be.
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