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Looking at the map I only just noticed how small the BC coastline is and how Alaska takes most of it. Looks like it goes back to agreement between England and Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Saint_Petersburg_(18... And there were never more than 700 Russians in Alaska. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_America#Sale_of_Alaska...
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Yeah, this kind of split-level design was super common in the PNW and 1980s isn't even particularly old when it comes to housing (plenty of houses in the Seattle metro area that are from the '20s...). Like here's a random listing from 30 seconds of searching that has light renovations: https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/10201-23rd-Ct-SW-98146/hom... and if you spend enough time looking for "affordable" options in subu…
There's a common thing that I've noticed when going to Canada. As soon as you cross the border, you see tons of houses built in the 70s and 80s that are sided with stucco. They look so out of place in BC. In Washington, our climate is pretty much the same, but nobody here has stucco houses. I'm curious why so many up in Canada, but not here. They look like they would fit in nicely in Southern California.
Tons of houses in the 70s and 80s in Vancouver was built in the exact same style because of zoning laws and certain regulations at the time. I couldn't tell you why they chose stucco but they basically all follow the same template and they're basically a signature of the city now.
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Its more that why does the panhandle exist at all, it should all be BC.
American politicians and capitalists realized how valuable the western half of the continent before British Canada did and they acted on it. If you look as the west coast it’s mostly American coast, it’s kind of surprising that Americans didn’t just take it all when you think about it
I just emailed them asking if they are doing anything with it. They responded and sent me here: http://www.kitsaultenergy.com/index.html
This is so weird and creepy, I just applied!
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Assuming CAD and using the Bank Of Canada's inflation calculator[1], $50M in 1981 equates to about $154M today. [1] https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculat...
For comparison: one house in Bel Air at $150M https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10721-Stradella-Ct-Los-An...
Out of curiosity I looked it up on a map [1]. It appears two of the closest settlements [2],[3] are also ghost towns or otherwise pretty much abandoned. Kind of nice to know there are habitable but uninhabited places left in the world. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Kitsault+%2C+BC&ia=web&iaxm... [2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Arm,_British_Columbia [3] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyox
If you follow the inlet back to the ocean a short ways, you reach Gingolx (Kincolith) [1] which has [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ging%CC%B1olx