Okay - what are Bedford, Sackville (of the Lower variety) and Eastern Passage like as places to live with two smallish children? I am currently looking for a rental and have no idea where to look!

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Hi,

What's your plan? short/long stay? - there are busy and quiet places in both. Are there other places you will visit?

I don't know anything about living in the Eastern Passage. Bedford ranges from nice, to very very nice (and expensive), and Lower Sackville is full of regular families. Apparently there are some iffy bits of Lower Sackville, but that is more likely to be on Sackville Drive at night, rather than in any particular housing subdivision.

Eastern Passage is very nice, within spitting distance of the ocean. Its small town feel. Some new developments going on there. The schools are really great because of the small town feel.

Thats my feeling but I didn't want to say as I don't live there yet

I live in Eastern Passage and love it, small town feel within 10 minutes drive of downtown dartmouth/20 to Halifax. There is a small provincial park in its heart and is still a working fishing village.

There is no high school but they are campaigning to have one built as 2000 kids get shipped out to cole harbour and dartmouth each day, although there are good elementary schools for the younger kids.

There are new developments going up regularly through heritage hills, with some lovely reasonably priced propertys. This is one of the few HRM areas with good prices, once the high school comes watch out for a quick rise in property prices

Thanks everyone! We had a drive around today and really liked Windsor and Wolfville - though have had to strike Wolfville off as it is too far away from my OH's work. Now desperately trying to find something to rent in Windsor. Having no luck at all! The only place I can find listings is Kijiji. Any other places I should be looking?

I dont know the area of Windsor at all, but I have found that when you drive around there are often signs in house windows saying for rent. Also there are the classifieds, again dont know when they come out in that local paper. But putting your own add on Kijiji would help. There must also be some rental agencies in Windsor, try and google them and just ring them, often the rental listings online our out of date, so ring.

Good luck!

Thank you!

We have just landed and got a rental with 3 small children, so if you are passing through Halifax, pop over for a chat!! Good luck with the hunting, it will all fall into place

We are currently right on the harbour in a short term rental in Dartmouth! Where in Halifax are you?

We live just 15 mins outside of Windsor 2 kids go to school here, my wife works in Kentville, we enjoy living here Windsor has everything you would expect from a small town.

RE rental properties. There is a paper called the Hants Journal i would reccommend trying and also a windsor estate agent you may want to try is Rose realty.

Let me know if you r in the area we could meet up and i can give you the lowdown.

Cheers

Mark

You may find this link helpful for further links to The Hants Journal and other local newspapers

http://www.novanewsnow.com/

Couldn't you have gotten a rental that didn't come with kids? Must say that would put most people off, having to move into somewhere with children as part of the deal

Glad you found somewhere OK anyway We should be over in less than a month now I think

I know Nixfix, what a deal - lucky we quite like the kids we got right?

Obviously, AmyDavid is looking for more longterm rental information, which I think she has recieved.

AmyDavid I will Pm you my number!