Originally Posted by deltadeliquent

Wow!
I could have written this original post. In fact I did...with some minor changes.i won't go over it all again, I have had a lot of support here on BE. I hate it, husband, who is not even here for 50% of the time loves it. I'm well and truly stuck.

We have funds, but nowhere to spend them. And travel outside of our island is impossible without the planning of an arctic expedition. I hate BC and its fractured coast with its hippie want to bees and used to bees and ain't it great to bee....(ommmmmm!) and a lifestyle that refuses or wants to have any useful work. Personal pleasure and leisure as the only important pursuit. Anti-intellectual, anti humour, and the religion of pot and fuzzy thinking.

I am thinking about NS in order to get away from the hippies and the pot, and the dirt....but maybe not now.

Jeez! I just want to go HOME! Where's the Wizard of Oz when you need him?
I need a pair of those ruby slippers!

Originally Posted by Jsmth321

I think some people just have a need to move and experience something new and don't do well in one spot for too long.

I am certainly one of those, I get bored of a place quickly and feel the need to move onto a new place, while I've only lived within North America, since becoming an adult, I can't even keep track of how many places I've lived, some a year, some just a few months, but I always have this urge to leave and seek out something new to experience.

I used to work for an airline and I think one reason that job lasted so long, was on my days off, I could hop on an airplane and just go somewhere, there wasn't 1 week in 5 years where I stayed home on my days off, I was always in a different city doing something.....

I know I'd be happiest just traveling the world, and experiencing new things. If only I were born wealthy.

Originally Posted by Piff Poff

I don't think there is anything wrong with moving on, if the place you move to isn't quite right. Some people are happy to stay in the village they were born in, doing the job their parents did, some people want more. Some people love their new adoptive homes, some don't, some return to where they moved from as they realise what they wanted was there all along or maybe the spouse was doing ut to please their OH but couldn't live with it, some try another area for a multitude of reasons.

For quite a few years we were really happy here, after my parents in laws sudden deaths, my OH struggled mentally and his frustration with the length of winter grew and grew to the point where we both know we have to move on, the thought of being old in Alberta scares me. The depths of peoples feelings are hard to portray on a forum. For us our dreams when we emigrated have not been fulfilled, they are just taking longer to realise. We have realised they won't happen in Alberta where everyone thinks because you live in Alberta you have oil money. After a bit of googling, Red Deer now has a average house price of $400k, whereas in 2005 it was around $250k wages haven't gone up at the same rate.

Originally Posted by Siouxie

Whilst other peoples viewpoints are important to consider, nothing will tell you whether it would suit you or not other than you visiting and having a good look around and getting a feel for the place.

You mentioned you were looking for somewhere that you could have coffee, go to church, go to a store, be involved in art without having to travel for hours but that it also had to be somewhere where there were isolated stretches of waterfront and wildlife, so that your husband would also enjoy it.

Seems to me that NS/PEI/NB is worth looking at.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Originally Posted by MarylandNed

Absolutely! There are many people who moved abroad and it didn't work out. But there are also many people for whom it did work out. Having a few people here and there complain about a particular location isn't necessarily relevant for everyone else. I hear some people complain about various parts of Canada and aspects of Canadian lifestyle but I know many more people who are perfectly happy in those same places. The bottom line is this - if you don't like where you are, move! Life is too short to be staying somewhere that makes you unhappy. Sometimes it's hard when there are multiple people involved - especially children. That's why it's better to move with children when they are very young. It may be harder to move when they get past a certain age.

Originally Posted by gozitanguygoinghome99xx

...I love this quote. When I get a place of my own i'll have it put on the wall...

Originally Posted by BristolUK

That's some wall you'll need.

Originally Posted by deltadeliquent

That's so, so true.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

That's some wall you'll need.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

I dunno. With a small enough font you could put it in a Christmas Cracker, back where Gozo found it.

Originally Posted by anders101

A lot of people have been asking about moving out of Nova Scotia recently. I have thought long and hard about it, as a lot of it is quite subtle and may not be picked up until you have been here a few years.

It is starting to drive me slowly insane living here! It is potentially a huge subject with many facets but I will try to explain and be as honest as possible. Please before you shoot me down in flames, remember this is my unique outlook/experience (okay, well most of my friends too....) and not everyone will have the same viewpoint.


I have been here for 4 years now. The first two were great with lots to explore and lots to do. Practicalities/legal stuff,paperwork etc. took a lot of time to sort out, and we were still in the honeymoon phase. All good

We are both professionals and were happy enough to take a wage drop until we had 'proved ourselves' and taken extra exams Etc. Well, we are now at the 'top' of our pay bands, and still incredibly skint! The cap on wages here is so low! Overtime is a norm, and we now work harder than ever. With our high taxes and hugely inflated professional body fees and union fees, our money goes nowhere and we have had no spare money for anything since we arrived. There have been few weekends away but no proper vacation for years..... and no possibility on the horizon. So what is it all for I ask myself? What exactly are we knocking our pans in for? If I could afford to get away now and again, it wouldn't be quite so bad here....it is just the feeling of being broke and trapped that gets to you! Cabin fever!

The kids were happy enough to begin with, but now that we have driven as far exploring in every direction as far as comfortably possible, they are bored silly. They do the normal clubs and sport etc, but are lacking from new and stimulating experiences! I might add that there are a huge amount of clubs/activities for little people but mine have outgrown these.

The education system is sweet and fluffy with soft shoes and classes on how to be nice to each other, but really academically it is pretty lame. My youngest is one of the top of the class, and frankly her writing and spelling leave a lot to be desired! (we have been told this does not matter by the school!)

Our word is slowly turning orange with the disgusting water from our well despite spending fortunes on specialists and treatments. My clothes are orange. My dishwasher is orange and all my clothes have turned orange. I am beginning to resemble an oompa loompa! I know we have just been unlucky on that front, but it is frustrating to throw so much money to try to fix it. The people in the street, say...'oh, yeah, its been like that for years' I might just as well get an orange jumpsuit from the prison and be done with it! At least I will have the matching orange undies to go with it! (can I just mention that I know the problem is high iron content amongst other things, but we have have more new filters and tanks that hot dinners!)

People who have just been here a few years still seem to enjoy the new experience, but truly there are only so many beaches/views you can enjoy repetively. Some will argue that the beaches are so lovely, but really I am done looking wistfully to the horizon and being happy with that every weekend. My brain is screaming out for something else. There are also only so many pumpkin people you can go to visit without feeling like ground hog day. By year 4, self harm is becoming a more entertaining option!

It is such a shame really. NS has a lot to offer with regards to low traffic, friendly people, lovely scenery, lovely big house plots and all the things we hoped it would be.(before we truly realised how quickly our brains would start shutting down)


My colleagues seem to manage a holiday to either Cuba, Mexico or the Dominion in Feb every year.(yes only ever one of these places!! Mustn't be too adventurous or venture out of an all inclusive!) As far as I can see, they claim they get this money from their 'tax back.' So far despite our best efforts and claiming for every breath we take, we always end up with a piddly amount. Also, most of my friends and colleagues have cottages that they spend all summer at, so as soon as hockey season is finished and they all appear again, they bugger off for months. (just the NS style of life.) Nice if you can afford it! Boring for the few of us left behind though. How do they all afford these skidoos, speed boats etc when they seem to have careers plowing snow etc? I am perplexed!



When we escape (sorry move) I will miss my house and my acres of surrounding woods, but really the thought of a whole new world out there to explore is calling me...and I feel I am festering here! Anyway....just a vent!

I am sure some of you are asking 'why on earth did you move there when you know it is isolated and there is little to do. Well, I can honestly say, I was looking for a quieter life. That's were hubbys job ended up, and I honestly thought it would be great to live quietely most of the time but break it up with exploring other places... what more can I say? The balance just never happened. With all the research we did, nothing could have prepared us for the expense! ( we have found that with the depopulation going on in NS at the moment, things like our union and professional body fees have sky rocketed as there as now so few of us to contribute. It just gets worse every year.)

Anyway, it is just something to think about. Financially it is not easy here. Right now, I have a choice of getting frontal lobotomy to cope with the boredom and lack of money or do my jolly best to escape (even saving for the move is stressful and will take a while)

So,for all those who have been asking why people are leaving NS....here is my two penneth worth! Please feel free to discuss/rip me apart

Originally Posted by yemelade

I am so sorry you feel this way! And to be honest, although it did sadden me to read it, I'm kind of glad that I have.

I've been researching moving to NS for a couple months now, however have only been looking at immigration from Canadian websites and blogs from NS born folk. This whole time, I've been thinking that life would be lovely and peaceful should we move there, or at least less stressful than the uk, lots more opportunities to spend time with family etc but it seems that this isn't a guarantee, and never did I ever think that the tranquillity of living life out in the country could turn to insanity! Although this is something I should have thought about - I do get bored when I take time off in the UK so why would this be different in Canada?

If you don't mind, I think I will look at posts by you from your profile, as it seems I may easily be in a similar predicament in several years time therefore I'd at least like to see the journey of someone who has walked my potential future steps!

With thanks,

Yemelade

Originally Posted by Siouxie

Perhaps it would be good to keep in mind that for every person who is unhappy in NS and posts about it there are many who are perfectly happy there.