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Buy a holiday home in Canada

New found land

Neil Collins

Wednesday, 12th December 2007

Neil Collins considers buying a holiday home in Canada

So along comes another of those £1m bonus things. Ten a penny, so to speak, in the City nowadays, and the real challenge is to find something imaginative to do with it, preferably something you can show off to your friends, in a low-key sort of way, of course. You’ve got the agreeable house in Fulham, or even Chelsea if you beat the boom and got in early, and somehow you can’t face the hassle of a country house, and as for a cottage … well, that’s no good for weekends when you want to impress your well-heeled chums; it’s nothing like glamorous enough.

There’s the chalet in Meribel, or Chamonix if you’re serious on skis, but the snow is getting so unreliable in Europe these days, isn’t it? Summer mountaineering around Mont Blanc is jolly hard work, especially if you’d rather be playing golf, or even trying to catch a fish. If this sort of logic sounds a bit thin, it didn’t to Brian Dobbin. Forget Europe, you City boys, and come to Canada.

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