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What's it like living in Nova Scotia?

Old Jun 30th 2017, 11:57 pm
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Originally Posted by raindropsandroses
Where's the fun or adventure in that though?
When we lived in NS we just couldn't justify the $1600 return ticket versus $400/500 in gas
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Old Jul 1st 2017, 12:03 am
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Originally Posted by DandNHill
When we lived in NS we just couldn't justify the $1600 return ticket versus $400/500 in gas
Sorry, I should have added a . Going to New York, or any big city is not my idea of fun, but I thought we were talking on a theoretical tangent to the thread about getting to big cities from NS, and driving distances in hours/what would be possible in a day. How practical is it to drive such a long way? How often does anyone fit that into their life?
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Old Jul 1st 2017, 12:09 am
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Originally Posted by DandNHill
When we lived in NS we just couldn't justify the $1600 return ticket versus $400/500 in gas
This summer it seems to be $800 return, still expensive, but perhaps a bit more justifiable for doing in one direction and then driving back the other way.
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Default Re: What's it like living in Nova Scotia?

Originally Posted by raindropsandroses
Sorry, I should have added a . Going to New York, or any big city is not my idea of fun, but I thought we were talking on a theoretical tangent to the thread about getting to big cities from NS, and driving distances in hours/what would be possible in a day. How practical is it to drive such a long way? How often does anyone fit that into their life?
Regarding driving distances, I often driven to Vancouver and back in the same day for business meetings and do the same journey at least 4x a year to collect family/friends from the airport. That's a shade under 900kms.
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Default Re: What's it like living in Nova Scotia?

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Regarding driving distances, I often driven to Vancouver and back in the same day for business meetings and do the same journey at least 4x a year to collect family/friends from the airport. That's a shade under 900kms.
Yes for business/airport runs, and I do love driving and love road trip holidays, but hours and hours of driving for a day out? I don't know, perhaps I'm turning into a pansy but it just sounds exhausting.
I don't think I'm making much sense tonight, strong painkillers making things sound sensible in my head an ludicrous on paper. Ho hum.
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Default Re: What's it like living in Nova Scotia?

Originally Posted by raindropsandroses
Sorry, I should have added a . Going to New York, or any big city is not my idea of fun, but I thought we were talking on a theoretical tangent to the thread about getting to big cities from NS, and driving distances in hours/what would be possible in a day. How practical is it to drive such a long way? How often does anyone fit that into their life?
8:30am sailing too so would need to leave Halifax around 4am
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8:30am sailing too so would need to leave Halifax around 4am
Yeah, not exactly a fun start to a day is it?
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Default Re: What's it like living in Nova Scotia?

Originally Posted by raindropsandroses
Yes for business/airport runs, and I do love driving and love road trip holidays, but hours and hours of driving for a day out? I don't know, perhaps I'm turning into a pansy but it just sounds exhausting.
I don't think I'm making much sense tonight, strong painkillers making things sound sensible in my head an ludicrous on paper. Ho hum.
We lived in Yarmouth and wouldn't think anything of driving up to Halifax for the day which was roughly a 700km return trip.
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Originally Posted by DandNHill
We lived in Yarmouth and wouldn't think anything of driving up to Halifax for the day which was roughly a 700km return trip.
Well, if this is an insanity competition. When my daughter was being treated at a hospital in Chicago we would make the appointment for Friday morning, leave at midnight on Thursday, the journey is 527 miles, 7 hours 20, so we'd have time to crash for an hour in the dunes in Indiana before arriving for 9. We'd then drive back. Every fortnight, for months.

I like to drive and have driven many of the great roads in America but repetition kills the buzz. If I had to go around Cape Breton or down the PCH every time I wanted a block of raclet or some hard-to-assemble furniture I'd lose interest in even those roads.
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Well, if this is an insanity competition. When my daughter was being treated at a hospital in Chicago we would make the appointment for Friday morning, leave at midnight on Thursday, the journey is 527 miles, 7 hours 20, so we'd have time to crash for an hour in the dunes in Indiana before arriving for 9. We'd then drive back. Every fortnight, for months.

I like to drive and have driven many of the great roads in America but repetition kills the buzz. If I had to go around Cape Breton or down the PCH every time I wanted a block of raclet or some hard-to-assemble furniture I'd lose interest in even those roads.
You might have be winning... until you mentioned cheese and Ikea
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Default Re: What's it like living in Nova Scotia?

Originally Posted by DandNHill
We lived in Yarmouth and wouldn't think anything of driving up to Halifax for the day which was roughly a 700km return trip.
The thing is, by the time you've actually got there, you surely don't have much time to look around things before everything closes and its time to come home again? Where we used to live prior to Canada was quite a few hours drive to the nearest grocery stores and shops, not something I'd be happy to do again.

I'm not well at the moment, so I don't like driving for more than four hours in a day, that's about my limit if I'm also going to be looking around things/doing shopping in between the driving, so two hours there, two hours back. Plus long days with a toddler aren't a great idea as he gets tired and even more obstinate .

I don't mind driving longer distances from time to time, but on a once per week or more basis? No thanks.

DB, crikey I think you win the internet, that sounds horrendous. I think driving somewhere regularly when its something like that is so much more shattering than doing it for a day trip, or for work as it takes a huge toll emotionally.
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Default Re: What's it like living in Nova Scotia?

Originally Posted by raindropsandroses
DB, crikey I think you win the internet, that sounds horrendous. I think driving somewhere regularly when its something like that is so much more shattering than doing it for a day trip, or for work as it takes a huge toll emotionally.
In an minivan. With my, already ex, wife.
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DB, crikey I think you win the internet

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In an minivan. With my, already ex, wife.
I was wrong. You win the galaxy. And perhaps a few more galaxies too.
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