Sorry Amy, didn't mean to offend...I had just skimmed the thread before butting in.

Most of the time you can travel at 110km/hourish. The distance from Mapquest is 56.49 miles to deepest Dartmouth (just above Halifax) = 90.91 km therefore it takes 45 minutes. Truro to Halifax airport is 30 minutes.

Snow tires for winter - still fast. I used it a lot in Feb when snow about.

It's fine in winter, regularly ploughed and gritted, used it at it's worst in Feb. You need snow tires else fresh snow and no snow tires = spin off.

At the moment would you be prepared to travel to berwick and back daily on similar styles of roads, not quite as busy, but factor in regular unstable weather. The roads are usually cleared quickly ( within 4 hours of initial heavy snow fall).

If that seems no issue for you then you would be fine in Truro, if it would not be considered then Truro is not right.

My wife's mother is from Berwick, so that comparison has been raised a few times already. And I don't think there is a road anywhere in the world as bad as the A1 from Morpeth to Berwick!!!!

The thing is my job as contracts manager will inevitably mean that I will be visiting sites straight from home in the morning and the company I am going to work for cover quite an area of NS - they are currently working in Kentville area - so I would be able to break the journey up most days by stopping off at sites.

Go for it then, so long as your comfortable with it any journey is acceptable

My husband is home-based and does a lot of driving too but he has a company van, using company fuel and travels on company time.

You can only make the correct decision for yourselves. At least it will be an informed choice

Cheers Charlie - where abouts in NS do you live??

Y-C-D, if he does a lot of driving, how does your husband find the roads over there in general?

Are there lots of RCMP patrols/speed cameras on the highway?

What is the penalty for speeding ? (not that I am a fast driver)

I live in Eastern Passage about 10k outside Dartmouth

There are a lot of patrols & speed traps along the highways, they dont have cameras here yet but there is talk of introducing them

Speeding fines start from $250 for 1st offence up to a maximum of $1000 and suspension.

Is it possible for you to rent in Truro first and see how you feel after your first winter here? Houses away from the HRM area, in general, don't sell as quickly so if you do buy and find it doesn't work out, then you could in a position where you can't sell your house. The house market here is only really active April-October anyway. Also how happy would your family be living in a small town - Truro has a population of under 12,000. It might be good for you, but how would your wife feel left there all day? Would she be working? If so, how easy would it be for her to get a job in that area.
Development in the area was proposed back in 2006, but due to financial restraints, not much has been done yet.
I know how excited you must feel at the moment, but visiting for a reccie is not the same as living in a place.

Is that north or south of dartmouth Charlie - it's not a place i have come across i the past?

East of Halifax not far from Lawrencetown & Cole Harbour, its a developing fishing community, similar to craster or beadnell

www.easternpassage.ca

I got $400 for a first offence. No camera, just his word against mine.

There's rarely a need to speed in Nova Scotia.

Not my words...

Colchester is located at the centre of the Halifax – Moncton Growth Corridor. The Growth Corridor is the fastest growing economy in the Atlantic Region, home to over 700,000 people and a regional market of about 1.5 million. Some interesting facts include:
10th largest economic region in Canada
fastest growing population in Atlantic Canada
highest percentage concentration of university students in North America
9 universities and 7 community college campuses
20 Business Parks
2 international airports and Colchester’s Debert Airport
A modern, 4-lane freeway linking the Corridor’s communities to Central Canada, the American Northeast and beyond
Canada’s third busiest Port, being the first inbound and last outbound port of call to Europe and the Mediterranean
Among the best telecommunications infrastructure in North America; and,
A stable, low-cost workforce

Colchester is the third largest community in the Corridor after Halifax and Moncton. In terms of our economic performance, Colchester leads all other communities within the Corridor. The Town of Truro is the most cost-competitive location in the Corridor and the 5th most cost competitive location in North America based on KPMG’s 2004 edition of its widely recognized and respected Cost Competitiveness Study.

Truro:::Colchester is situated in the geographic center of the Growth Corridor, Atlantic Canada’s fastest growing economic region and holds the most strategically competitive location within the Corridor.

You are describing a large area (Halifax to Moncton). As many of the points you highlight are in either Halifax or Moncton ie. the Universities and the port, they are not really directly anything to do with Truro.

So, what is your point exactly and what does this have to do with the need to speed in NS?