AspiringCanadian

Hi everyone! My parents and I are all British natives and I would love to immigrate with my parents to Canada. I myself (my parents included) have Never been to canada so neither of us would know I'd we like it or not until we have taken a holiday there. But if let's say, we liked it there and we move there. One thing we love to do is take short holidays. Like in Britain, we can get to lovely areas like Hereford within an hour. Bbt because Canada is so vast, would it not be difficult to get to different scenery within such a short time? We love to go travelling but don't like to do a journey more than 2 hours.. How long would it take us to have a nice self catering holiday? Like I'm talking journey time. If we moved it'd be in Nova Scotia

Former Lancastrian

Just draw a 250 km circle from your start point and that will show you places you could travel to in just over 2 hours.
Why the 2 hour limit? 2 hours drive for a Canadian is nothing. Some will drive that amount of time just to go for a meal.
Several hours gets you into New Brunswick and PEI which are well worth the visit.

burks

Sounds to me that you don't love travelling at all!

Cookie

13 hr drive to Montreal done by many and its not unusual for locals to drive to Florida, not only for the winter but for a week long vacation

Siouxie

http://www.distancesfrom.com/ca/dist...y/7048532.aspx

You could try using this interactive travel/distance planner.

not2old

for 3 years in my 50's I did the 2 hours by car (in good weather) one way to work

2 hours for a restaurant meal ... never, well almost never unless someone else was paying

You have folks that will do a 5 hour each way trip by car for a business meeting

Then what should be a nice day out a two hour car journey across the border shopping in the US then in line at the border crossing stuck for another two hours.

Novocastrian

Oh, don't worry. By the time you're old enough to pull this off I'm certain that teleportation devices will be available.

Beam me over, Scotia!

<perhaps you'll be the one to invent it?>

Simon Legree

My last "drive" was 55 hours and 40 minutes actual moving time over eight days to cover the 6,000 kms to my place here in Arizona. I'll be here until April when I'll do it all over again back to Nova Scotia. Been doing it for 13 years.

not2old

the award goes to Simon

AspiringCanadian

Very good point, let me rephrase that. We love to go on holidays without a massive 5 hour+ road trip. Britain is so small that a two hour drive probably equates to about 10 hours over in Canada. So we wouldn't be used to the distances

Silverdragon102

I find driving is much different here in NS than in the UK, even will go as far to say even in NB do I see a difference. Therefore driving for several hours isn't that much of an option and seeing as the US is roughly a 4-6 hour drive maybe worth taking that extra distance into account

magnumpi

2 hours drive in the UK would most likely only get you 40-50 miles from home. 2 hours in Canada would get you 200km from home. Unless you is going east from Toronto on the 401, on a Friday, on a Bank Hol, at 5pm, that would equate to Brock Road area.

bats

2 hours drive in the UK would have got me to the seaside. I miss the seaside.

MillieF

I too miss the seaside, lots.....

Canadians will drive for hours, and they need to if they want to have much change of scenery. Canada is visually stunning and utterly beautiful, but you do have to go a stretch if you want to experience change.

What attracts you to Nova Scotia Aspiring Canadian?

magnumpi

Was a 5 min drive for me