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There was a funny thinly-veiled real estate ad in a paper here about Millennials fleeing to Kelowna for the cheap real estate. It was advertising sub-1,000 square foot condos in downtown Kelowna for over $600,000. Unfortunately nowhere in BC is really affordable to the typical potential home buyer anymore unless you want to move to a town so remote and undesirable that you'd be better off leaving the province. Kelowna and Victoria are expensive compared to most of Canada.

It is a pretty area but Kelowna mostly developed in an auto-centric way after WWII, which I guess goes hand in hand with being a bit of a resort town. There weren't many people who could afford to go live in the Okanagan for the summer in 1950. It was a small town before then, I guess a service hub for farms in the area. It reminds me a lot of Central Valley towns in California.