>>13587699I would look at Ohio/Indiana/Southern Michigan first. The winters are already milder than in the past and you have infrastructure in place that, while decayed, can be repaired and replaced much much cheaper and easier than in the recreational areas up north. Rochester New York has huge potential too. Southern Erie/Ontario/Michigan are all great. Huron side of Michigan too. Superior, you're still speculative. Muskoka's worth so much because of its proximity to Toronto. Milwaukee and Detroit just don't compare. Minnesota's interesting. Anyway! You want the usual: hospital access, major airport within 2 hours, basically culture just over the horizon. Not hours and hours away. Vancouver island, Port Hardy's still gorgeous, but half the price or less of Victoria. Riparian rights are important, most notably conservation status. Be very careful with this. Sometimes your rights end at the shoreline and the state can do what they want with your access. Smaller lakes are a safer bet, but the areas you're talking about are still highly speculative. Here in Ontario Muskoka's crazy, and now Lake Erie is as well, but further north, past Sudbury, your property needs the right buyer willing to invest in building, and if you're planning to sit on an existing structure, maintaining it isn't cheap or easy. Getting in to some of these places poses a real challenge. I predict places like Gary Indiana will have large portions bought up as trial company towns, and the opportunity around those projects will increase proportionately. You're definitely thinking ludcidly about the preciousness of water. Even if the drought wasn't real, investment in water futures is, and as long as Baikal remains largely uninhabitable, the Great Lakes is the world's last great untapped opportunity. Don't be too esoteric though. People want to be just far enough away from people to not have to look at them, but to be heard if they scream for help.
