If you want to be 10 minutes from Halifax but close to the outdoors, you are probably in your 30s with a couple of young kids, and want to be in a modern new build with neighbouring houses that look like this...

And this...

Then this 4+0 bedroom, 4 bathroom house in a new development called Long Lake in Halifax, Nova Scotia is the place for you.

The Long Lake development...

'a master planned community of low-rise development for active families'

As described by David Graham, president of Atlantic Developments (who started the development), has 6 builders so not all the houses will look alike, but they are all modern in their own style.

This one is probably my favourite.

It is done by these people of Bowers Construction...

I like all the finishes, the layout seems good, and it is bright.  The only problem is that there is no yard, just a deck.

But the house does over look this playground so there is that...

In Toronto, this would probably be listed around $1,489,900.

In Halifax, this house is listed at...

$489,900.

A million dollars less.

And it is located beside Long Lake Provincial Park that is 5,000 acres of lakes, forests, trails, rivers and streams and with the help of Atlantic Developments and Polycorp (another of the 6 Long Lake developers), it now has a multi-use 5 km trail that helps to provide access to the park...

Not to mention the 3.5 kilometre lake...

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