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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Adam Bent

Canada's South Pacific: Why True Wilderness Is the New Definition of Luxury

For decades, luxury real estate followed a simple formula: more square footage, a more prestigious postal code, a longer driveway between you and everyone else. But a quieter shift has been building among many of today's most discerning buyers: the recognition that the ultimate luxury isn't distance from other people. It's proximity to something far more valuable: the natural world itself.

Nowhere in North America is that shift more vividly realized than at SookePoint Ocean Cottage Resort, perched on an ancient volcanic peninsula on the extreme southwest tip of Vancouver Island, a region so defined by its mild microclimate and seaside exposure that locals call it Canada's South Pacific. Here, 84% surrounded by the sea and set within a private, gated peninsula wrapped by lush undersea gardens, SookePoint isn't adjacent to nature. It's immersed in it.

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