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interesting reading all the different stories... it was a good question to ask!

I built mine after moving to PEI when my mother decided this is where she wanted to settle for a while. Ultimately I wanted to spend as little as i could on a property, but needed land as I had 15 Alpacas at the time and 2 kids... and I have a real huge need for space. The places with large enough property had old old houses that were far from kept up and would need upwards of 50 k of upgrades... major stuff like new foundations whole new septic systems and wells and... well... pretty much everything else and they still wanted top price for this area of the island. So that was a pretty unsettling prospect. One of my good friends suggested the possibility of building a yurt... but making it as more of a permanent structure. It still ended up costing a lot, but not as a result of the Yurts themselves but the general setting up of a property in these parts... its still a massively better investment for this area than any of the houses. Its also become so popular here its been in the paper and on TV in the first year it was built... so much for my need for space and solitude :-P