Unfortunately, it tends to be in places that folks are reluctant to go to. Like New Brunswick and rural PEI.
It depends on what your priorities are. If it's REALLY important to you to own the ground under your feet, you'll find that in the far reaches of either of those provinces you can find a habitable abode for well under a hundred grand. More than likely, you'll find work in a nearby lobster processing plant that pays shit by Toronto standards, but will pay the mortgage on the aforementioned abode.
But even up here in the Bruce, less than three hours from Toronto, things are relatively affordable. Check this out. You'll easily qualify for the mortgage that will make this place yours with a household income of sixty thousand or so. If you drive a snow-plow in the winter and a gravel truck the rest of the year, and your wife works the check-out at the dollar store, you can swing this place!
And there's lots of those kind of jobs available around here.
But, every one wants to write code and nobody wants to drive a snow-plow, so everybody goes to Toronto, and then they complain they can't afford to buy a house!
It all comes back to what your priorities are. If it's important to you that your children frolic in a yard of their own, forget the city and come drive a snow-plow.
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