Nova Scotia, Hubbards
 

Hi

What is Nova Scotia all about?

Seen this beautiful property!
4 bedroom detached house for sale in Nova Scotia, Hubbards, Canada

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Low paying jobs, economy stagnant, ..... Canadian houses made of sticks and require constant maintenance and repairs.

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I hope you realize the property is priced in US DOLLARS. So about $480,000 Canadian.

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Duly noted, what's the area like?

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Rustic and picturesque

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'It's a lovely house. I do miss the sea.

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If you want to look at other properties in the area, for comparison you could look on realtor.com

This is similar but a lot cheaper! http://www.forsalebyowner.ca/listing...ards-NS/128046

and.... edited to say, here it is advertised here: http://www.peterjhebb.com/listing?ad...dx=1396359194#

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:ohmy:

That's what my old 2-bed terraced house went for a couple of years ago.

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You have to ask yourself... 'why is it so cheap'?

Hubbards sure is beautiful...but...have you done your research? It is about 45 minutes from Halifax, about 30 minutes from Bedford and about an hour and half from Truro, so you really are quite out in the sticks. A car will be a must, petrol & maintence will cost you a fortune.

You will find that if the house is cheap, it's because there is nothing there!
Can you live in relative solitude throughout the harsh winters where you may be stuck for days at a time?

I know I couldn't, but I guess it is a personal thing.

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I too live 45 mins out from Halifax and drive in each day to downtown to work. I have a Hyundai accent that I bought new and is now 4 years old, it costs me about $36 a week to run. Hubby drives to Dartmouth and back each day in a Dodge Journey that costs about $65 a week to run, for your comparable.You can of course buy a gas guzzling bigger vehicle but thats up to you. I too live "out in the sticks" and I love it. We have a great community and all thats missing is the sea. I wouldnt move as we are settled now but if we werent I would move to Hubbards in a heartbeat. Keep in mind that if you plan on a night out in the city and live that far out a taxi is about $70 to get home or you could book with Woods limo and get the same ride in much nicer comfort for about $56 Hope this helps!

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Or treat yourself and pay a bit extra to stay overnight?

I stayed in a cabin on a lake at Hubbards (no road access in winter apparently and outside loo) in 1975. Owned by a bloke called Bob Barnsted (Barnstead?).

Do you know him? Or it?

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No idea. I do know though that when I drive past Hubbards on the Highway 3 that I always stop and take a picture as its so beautiful

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Of course I wasn't serious about knowing him. It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. :rofl:

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I know! I was just being deadpan

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Hoist by my own petard. ;)

(I just had to google petard. I never knew :o)

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I just googled it too. I have never heard that phrase before.I tell you what... I get kind of tired of reading all the "maritimes are crap" posts. It makes one think that "out west is the way to go" and then I read the post about hating the finding a job culture in Vancouver and I think (from my decent job here in Halifax) ok well then, its not a Maritimes issue really... its a Canadian "issue" that the Brits struggle with - less options and a different way to find a job....

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I've never had to look for work here so I wouldn't know, but there's a couple of threads going on about work and it really does seem to be a Canadian thing - contacts, Canadian experience etc - rather than a lack of opportunity.

Just here in this (size of Bath) city we have two hospitals, three universities, two big colleges and numerous private ones, tons of schools and two education departments to go with them, lots of federal government departments (Service Canada, statscan, immigration, Revenue Canada and more) as well as Provincial and municipal offices, a Newspaper, three television centres including CBC, a retail centre that attracts shoppers far and wide an airport a flight school with international students, major call centre operations, loads of restaurants, big hotels, a good zoo, the casino, entertainment/sport venues, several industrial parks, a fair amount of IT, big financial companies, condo/luxury apartment buildings springing up all over, already big retail centres expanding...

Just how can there be a lack of opportunity?

Obviously it doesn't pay as well as other cities but what's the point of that extra salary if it all goes on the extra mortgage or rent and/or the gas for the hour+ commute?

Is it worth it just to be close to a CFL team or a bigger museum? (and the gang/drug wars that dbd seems to have much experience of :rofl:)

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To be honest I had no idea Moncton could call home to all of that, however what I do know is that you have a far nicer "the Keg" than we do here in Halifax.

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Of course, you live out in the sticks and love it...for me, I can think of nothing worse, it's my idea of total hell as I like to be near shops, amenities, entertainment, and variety.
That's why I said in my post it's a personal thing and as we do not know anything about the OP, it may be his/her idea of heaven or it could be hell. I asked whether he/she had researched Hubbards or just simply fell in love with the house prices, but they are that cheap for a reason.

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Thanks for the insight.

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It's a great little area, I went there last year a few times. The Maritimes are a great place to live, I come from London and I never thought I could move from there to Yarmouth NS with its tiny population but I just love it over here.

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The area around Hubbards is very scenic, and it's quite popular in the Summer with a small community in the Winter. Outside of rush hour it's not a bad drive into Halifax, but employment opportunities are more limited in the Maritimes than other parts of Canada, so if you need to work you might want to consider somewhere larger.
Visit, preferably in Winter, and rent a holiday cottage for a few nights and see how you like it - it's not for everyone.

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With the corresponding reduction in people looking of course.

From my earlier post....my city in the Maritimes has two hospitals, three universities, two big colleges and numerous private ones, tons of schools and two education departments to go with them, lots of federal government departments (Service Canada, statscan, immigration, Revenue Canada and more) as well as Provincial and municipal offices, a Newspaper, three television centres including CBC, a retail centre that attracts shoppers far and wide an airport a flight school with international students, major call centre operations, loads of restaurants, big hotels, a good zoo, the casino, entertainment/sport venues, several industrial parks, a fair amount of IT, big financial companies, condo/luxury apartment buildings springing up all over, already big retail centres expanding... Just how can there be a lack of opportunity?

Of course this is just one city in southern NB but Saint John and Fredericton have the same stuff too with the added harbour at Saint John and the bigger Uni and more government stuff in Fredericton.

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wow! Did I say something wrong?

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:confused: Did you post this on the wrong thread? It just doesn't seem to match up with the post you've quoted, so let me know where you meant it to go and I'll move it for you.

HTH.

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No I didnt, I was referring to the answer to my post.

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No. Why do you think that?
I was explaining why the OP should do their research before they jump in. Living in the sticks is great for some people, not for all.

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I think they likely know that.I was just giving them my personal info. If you read it, it even quotes numbers. Hopefully that will help in their research.

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What's the Acadian for "handbags" ? :blink:

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Do you speak French, Mellios?

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You asked if you had said something wrong. I said no. I was giving the other side to the coin. It was nothing about you. They may know that, and probably do, but lots of advice may help decide. I don't understand why you're taking it so personal.

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If I may....

There is a general 'tone' on this forum that this part of Canada - Maritimes, Atlantic Canada, Nova Scotia, however you want to describe it is a place where nobody wants to live; isolated; rural...and that's just the "nicer" terms applied.

Some of it is, of course, good humoured. But even good humoured can be repeated so much it seems more like taking the piss and, quite frankly, it gets a bit wearing.

Whenever those of us happily living here suggest we do have running water, electricity, banking and all the rest of it (I'm being 'nice' about this too ;)) we tend to feel anything from thought of as naive or simple to actually feeling bullied a bit.

"Of course, you live out in the sticks and love it..." can be read in two ways; either in the way explained - with people having different preferences or when one is part of a group always put on the defensive the tone my be misinterpreted as the more usually sarcastic "of course you do" as in "you would say that wouldn't you."

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Agreed.It can be very tough to hear this constantly from those that havent even been here.It is different to hear it from someone who has lived here and left, but again, everyones story is different. Some leave because its simply not an area for them (this can apply to anywhere in the world lets face it) Others because they couldnt find or get a job they wanted/neededOthers because they went back to the UK because being away from the UK was what made them miserable. Whatever the reason, all our experiences vary. Some are happy here, very happy, but I like Bristol UK feel exactly the same way about the negativity. His post is spot on.

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The North American equivalent of where I live in Scotland. No work ! Nice buildings !

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Most of the people that are negative about the Maritimes are those that have lived there though - there does seem to have been a mass exodus of forum members for other parts of Canada recently, and those folks are perfectly entitled to air their views too.

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This is the way I meant it, but as I explained to Howe on PM, it's hard to get accross in words on a forum/email/message, etc.

My preference is busy, varied, close to amenities etc which is why I didn't get on in NS as a whole, because I got bored very quickly. Howe's preference is quiet, away from town, out in the sticks if you will. We don't know what the OPs preference is, which is why I offered that advice of researching first. It is very easy to to be pulled in to a huge house with a very attractive price tag, I was simply explaining why it is so cheap. There is not a lot of work in Hubbards, so travel is essential.
Anyway, I'm sure the OP is already doing their research. After all, it is the obvious thing to do.

Having lived in NS for 6 years, I feel I am allowed an opinion on the place. I'm sorry if people get offended, but not everything is rosy, and people deserve to hear both sides before they make perhaps the biggest and most expensive leap of their lives. It's great if it works for you, but emigrating doesn't work for everyone.
If you don't like to hear from people who weren't, or aren't happy in NS or the Maritimes, don't come on here. Simple.

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Yes NS was definitely not for you but why was that? What was the reason?
I know you feel that Halifax was boring but be fair, did it really have less than an average town of that size in the UK? Personally it far outweighs many towns in the SE for bars and nightlife (not Brighton or London of course) but I do have more options than I used to have living in the SE of England in a comparable size town.
And Hubbards is like a pretty quaint English village, hardly any work so you have to commute. But it's really not that far and it really doesn't have to cost a fortune, it's on a par with living in Lindfield and working in Brighton. But at a $1 a litre for gas.

I am ambitious and am in a far more progressive company than I have worked at in my life.

So, let's be fair. Let's remember the positives too.

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I've never been to the Maritimes, but if they're anything like New England, Maine and the other NE US states, it sounds idilic. Some people can work from home and are self-employed, so don't need to worry about the job situation. They can just enjoy the scenery.

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I don't think that's true at all. As much as I enjoy most of dbd's posts, he probably has as many negative posts about it as all the others put together.
But you know how when someone says they don't like where they live in the UK and they want to move to Canada, you and many others - quite reasonably - suggest they consider somewhere else in the UK.
By the same token when someone doesn't like living in, say, rural NS why not also consider another part of NS or another part of a different province or even a bigger town or a bigger city?

Why is it accepted that because they didn't like that one part of it it's fine to dismiss the whole?

I don't think that's true either.

Someone left and went to Ontario and it's quite obvious they'd rather have stayed. Someone else is on the way. A forum regular who doesn't post much any more was quite damning but for a few years after moving to NS said how great it was compared to where she was earlier. :blink:

There's plenty who stayed. What there has been an exodus of is members, especially those in NS, who don't post anymore or post little because of the tone of many posts. And I'm not just thinking of ontheboatout ;)

My PMs box over the years has told me all about those folk. :(




They certainly are. Even when facts show them to be wrong. ;)

I keep hearing of a lack of opportunity. But I posted all those employers earlier and stated it was much the same in Saint John and the Provincial capital of Fredericton.

That doesn't sound like a lack of opportunity. Half of the population of NB lives in these three areas.

It might not be as good away from these areas. So don't move away from these areas then. Don't dismiss an entire region because because of something peculiar to one part (or even several parts) of it when there are different parts.

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If you enjoy an area, just enjoy it. Who cares about the comment made by others? It always amuses me reading the comments about Victoria being God's waiting room. Maybe it is. Who cares? I like it as a city and enjoy visiting/shopping etc etc.