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There are certainly places like that a few minutes outside of Kingston, they seem to start around $300k, of course everything newer is huge and expensive. Kingston is on the edge of the Canadian Shield, go North and East and it's granite and forest, the city and everything to the west/NW is farmland and flat limestone.
My place almost fits the bill, but we're only planning on selling in about 3 years. We're going to "rebuild" our cottage for proper year round and move there. Waterfront is still fairly reasonable on some lakes around here, I think the place next to us sold last year for mid/high $300s with a fairly large lot. Nice place across from us sold for $540k as well last year. (Beaver Lake, 25 min north of Napanee) We live out on a narrow point, great for dogs, low traffic and if they get loose, much easier to find.
I've also lived in NB for my first 20 years or so, unless you speak Franglais stay away from the northern parts of the province. You could buy a place there dirt cheap, but you'll be kind of isolated, unless that's what you want.
I'll visit in the summer.
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There are some really interesting places up the Rideau, but having been a city kid for 65 years, a step like that may be a little too much. Probably some place within 20-30 kms of Kingston or Brockville is as far as I want to venture. I think I should start with small steps first.