I was about to say “no that’s a cabinet”… and then I looked to the left of it.
Ha, I did the exact same until your comment.
“What’s the big deal, it seems like a good use of space…”
Emergency escape hatch.
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I can only imagine “man I wish there was a bathroom in the middle of this corridor” and the result is what we see here
Did the realtor pull the photo from the listing? It doesn’t show any interior shots on the ad.
Weird, they still show up there though:
https://www.centris.ca/en/houses~for-sale~wotton/24018274?view=Summary
Perhaps it’s like one of those bookshelves that’s really a door - flush the big and the door swings open.
Kinda looks like a chest deep freezer? I mean… my question is where’s the shower? Maybe behind the photographer? Also… I’d hate to be blocked by a whateverthefuckit is if they have a fire and need to escape!
Yes it’s behind the photographer, my guess is walk-in larder and broom closet that got fused but they didn’t remove the door…
I’ve looked at a lot of houses during the last year and sometimes I’m left to wonder how many drugs the architect was taking when designing the house. So many weird-ass decisions.
Something ridiculous is that the place was built in 2001… that’s not an old house to have something that fucked up in it
I do wish I would have known how cheap it is to live in Quebec. Too bad about the French thing.
You realise that outside of the anglosphere knowing multiple languages is pretty much normal… There are plenty of people who move to Quebec and learn the language.
I’m aware. I’m terrible at french is all.
I was terrible at English at some point in my life, practice makes
perfectbetter!I am sure if I actually moved to Quebec and had to use French daily it would be different, my problem has always been being able to retain the information with lack of use. I’ve taken a lot of French and did well enough, but I forget it all now except for how-to ask if I can go to the bathroom.
Well, at least you remember something pretty useful! 🤣
Honestly there are tons of English speakers in Quebec that don’t even make the effort to try and learn French, so as long as someone moves here with it as a priority we appreciate it a lot!
That house is really far away from anything, don’t trust your instincts about distance when looking at the map that country is massive.
Val-des-Sources is 10 minutes away and has all services that are missing from Wotton itself except for an hospital which is 40 minutes away in Sherbrooke but there are CLSCs closer than that.
That’s a feature.
Sure, I’m myself planning on being in a place like that, in Quebec, eventually. Just saying that’s the reason it’s cheap, not because it’s Quebec. I’m sure you can get similar prices in bum-fuck nowhere in whales or the Highlands or something.
I live in British Columbia, that property would pull in probably $800,000 here. Even when I was in Alberta pre COVID that would have gotten probably $500,000.
As in, in similarly remote areas? If that’s the case then I’ll count myself lucky that it’s Québec I’ll likely move to next.
I am unsure how much land is coming with the house, but if it is acreage/hobby farm size it’d fetch a bit more probably, but it it is just a house that is part of some unincorporated area it’d be a bit less but the difference is significant going from western Canada to anything east of Alberta that isn’t Ontario.
1 acre, close to a town and a village, 40 minutes away from a city of 200k+ citizens.
You can see where this probably used to be two smaller rooms. The bathroom looks to be located just off the kitchen. Perhaps it was only a half bath at one point in time or not even a bathroom. At some point they tore down the wall and made it a full bath. I have no idea why they didn’t just wall up the door though.
My hypothesis is that it was a walk in larder that was converted and they needed enough space for the toilet so they removed a wall to make it one room with the broom closet that was behind the wall…
Honestly the place is very cool for the price but if the owner did something like that I don’t want to deal with the rest of the mess they might have created!
