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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by woodworm
(Post 11581503)
to me, Nova Scotia is nice from June to November. The rest of the year sucks.
That's why we spent the last months in Madeira, Algarve and Southern Spain... I am already dreading flying back to Canada next week. So my ideal life in Canada looks like that: spend 183 days during the summer/fall in NS and leave for the winter , If it's good for the birds , it's good for me |
Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by woodworm
(Post 11581503)
to me, Nova Scotia is nice from June to November. The rest of the year sucks.
That's why we spent the last months in Madeira, Algarve and Southern Spain... I am already dreading flying back to Canada next week. So my ideal life in Canada looks like that: spend 183 days during the summer/fall in NS and leave for the winter , If it's good for the birds , it's good for me |
Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Heading to a warmer destination for the winter months is not an option for us as we need to work and have a young family hence our interest in moving to a warmer climate in Canada, not the USA or Europe! !
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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by galaxyandminstrels
(Post 11582128)
Heading to a warmer destination for the winter months is not an option for us as we need to work and have a young family hence our interest in moving to a warmer climate in Canada, not the USA or Europe! !
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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by rivingtonpike
(Post 11582129)
It's not all a bed of roses here you know. We had a touch of frost on the ground this morning!
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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
We have been in Nova Scotia for 16 years now and it really is killing me. I have to stay another 6 years in my job here before retirement then I am out of here. The reasons have been well documented by myself and others and include:
No mountains, just flat swamp land with scrubby deformed trees Crap climate, no spring, 6 months of winter, brutally humid in summer Bland non-controversial people spouting platitudes (OK, maybe like that everywhere in Canada) Nanny state government philosophy Taxed to the hilt I'm looking to move to the foothills of the Rockies, from Golden in northern BC to Cranbrook, or similar in Alberta. Suburban to rural. Can anyone suggest Nirvana for an outdoors loving guy who would happily live in a one-room shack on the side of a mountain but has a wife who would prefer a 3 bed house not far from Nubody gym? |
Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by Lost Boy
(Post 11582276)
Can anyone suggest Nirvana for an outdoors loving guy who would happily live in a one-room shack on the side of a mountain but has a wife who would prefer a 3 bed house not far from Nubody gym?
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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by Novocastrian
(Post 11582286)
Divorce?
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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Yes just on way to peggys cove. We have just returned from a lovely Uk trip but dont want to move back there either. We have been in hfx for 7 years this summer. Love east coast living, but returning to such a bad winter made me hate the snow. Being british I can handle rain as in BC. We too would be downsizing with less outdoor space, but as me and hubby agree, we would not be able to manage the snow and our property in our elder years so would have to move then anyway. We love canada so feel BC may be a good fit. We only really just decided, so plan a trip and more research into aeas, but looking around abbotsford,hope and chillliwack
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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by shez1
(Post 11582313)
Yes just on way to peggys cove. We have just returned from a lovely Uk trip but dont want to move back there either. We have been in hfx for 7 years this summer. Love east coast living, but returning to such a bad winter made me hate the snow. Being british I can handle rain as in BC. We too would be downsizing with less outdoor space, but as me and hubby agree, we would not be able to manage the snow and our property in our elder years so would have to move then anyway. We love canada so feel BC may be a good fit. We only really just decided, so plan a trip and more research into aeas, but looking around abbotsford,hope and chillliwack
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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by shez1
(Post 11582313)
Yes just on way to peggys cove. We have just returned from a lovely Uk trip but dont want to move back there either. We have been in hfx for 7 years this summer. Love east coast living, but returning to such a bad winter made me hate the snow. Being british I can handle rain as in BC. We too would be downsizing with less outdoor space, but as me and hubby agree, we would not be able to manage the snow and our property in our elder years so would have to move then anyway. We love canada so feel BC may be a good fit. We only really just decided, so plan a trip and more research into aeas, but looking around abbotsford,hope and chillliwack
Keep us posted on how you get on. I have looked at those areas myself but did not find them very appealing so am interested as to why you are looking to make the move there. Have you looked at Vancouver Island? It would give you the coast if that's something you currently enjoy. Will you be looking for work? Perhaps that is a factor in your choice of area? |
Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by jossie
(Post 11582353)
Hope...It was where the movie first blood was filmed
The bridge isn't there any more - it was demolished in October 2011.
Originally Posted by jossie
(Post 11582353)
Abbotsford and Chilliwack are 2 of the last places I would choose to live in BC.
Hope is about the cheapest place to live - if we didn't need to work, we would probably buy a mansion in Hope! Chilliwack is a little too far out and is pretty much based around farming and god bothering. Abbotsford isn't bad. Nicest areas to live are Sumas Mountain, Clayburn and where we are in a 'rural' sub-division of 250 single family homes in and old quarry west of Mt. Lehman. Shopping is pretty good the selection of eating-out places isn't. A lot of people (racists) are put off by the fact that approx 20-25% of the population are Indo-Canadian. We currently live in a rented place on the west side of Abbotsford in a new sub-division between Mt. Lehman and Aldergrove. It has a popluation mix which pretty much matches the census figures. There are some areas where the ethnic mix is highly concentrated with Indo-Canadians, but the same also goes for various flavours of god botherers, as Abbotsford has a large Mennonite community. It's the first time that I've seen churches with hundreds of car park spaces.... Chilliwack is very affordable for the Fraser Valley as a whole, however if you want a nice house, you won't be working in Chilliwack. Some areas of Mission are nice, but again, you won't be working there if you want a nice house and Mission is quite a drive from Langley/Surrey/Vancouver, although it has the joke that is the West Coast Express (morning and evening commuter service ONLY) into Vancouver. We are in the process of buying a house in Maple Ridge. It has the best mix of environment, accessibility and affordability in our opinion. There is a good choice of new homes as Maple Ridge is a growing City. They have managed to keep a lot of green space in the new developments and also mainly avoid the grid layout for streets and avenues in the new areas around Silver Valley and Albion. They are trying to get a balanced property mix in these new areas (High end houses down through to townhouses and apartments), much to the disgust of the early-adopters of the new areas in approx 2004 onwards, who were expecting some sort of high-end enclave, particularly in Silver Valley. They should have read the Maple Ridge Development Plan, which has been around since 2002 and clearly showed the property mix... |
Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by withabix
(Post 11582653)
Only a short bit where Stallone walked across a bridge.
The bridge isn't there any more - it was demolished in October 2011
Originally Posted by withabix
(Post 11582653)
Hope is about the cheapest place to live - if we didn't need to work, we would probably buy a mansion in Hope!
Chilliwack is a little too far out and is pretty much based around farming and god bothering. Abbotsford isn't bad. Nicest areas to live are Sumas Mountain, Clayburn and where we are in a 'rural' sub-division of 250 single family homes in and old quarry west of Mt. Lehman. Shopping is pretty good the selection of eating-out places isn't. A lot of people (racists) are put off by the fact that approx 20-25% of the population are Indo-Canadian. We currently live in a rented place on the west side of Abbotsford in a new sub-division between Mt. Lehman and Aldergrove. It has a popluation mix which pretty much matches the census figures. There are some areas where the ethnic mix is highly concentrated with Indo-Canadians, but the same also goes for various flavours of god botherers, as Abbotsford has a large Mennonite community. It's the first time that I've seen churches with hundreds of car park spaces.... Chilliwack is very affordable for the Fraser Valley as a whole, however if you want a nice house, you won't be working in Chilliwack. Some areas of Mission are nice, but again, you won't be working there if you want a nice house and Mission is quite a drive from Langley/Surrey/Vancouver, although it has the joke that is the West Coast Express (morning and evening commuter service ONLY) into Vancouver. We are in the process of buying a house in Maple Ridge. It has the best mix of environment, accessibility and affordability in our opinion. There is a good choice of new homes as Maple Ridge is a growing City. They have managed to keep a lot of green space in the new developments and also mainly avoid the grid layout for streets and avenues in the new areas around Silver Valley and Albion. They are trying to get a balanced property mix in these new areas (High end houses down through to townhouses and apartments), much to the disgust of the early-adopters of the new areas in approx 2004 onwards, who were expecting some sort of high-end enclave, particularly in Silver Valley. They should have read the Maple Ridge Development Plan, which has been around since 2002 and clearly showed the property mix... |
Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
Originally Posted by jossie
(Post 11582782)
There was quite a bit more than just the bridge scene that was filmed there. The gas station scene, also when he rides through the town on the motorcycle. Buildings were also constructed for the set there (and were blownup.) And the scene where he jumps down the mountainside was filmed at the Othello Quintette Tunnels there plus lots more.
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Re: Thoughts on moving from NS to BC
We have also looked into maple ridge and looking i to vancouver island. Since we aeare just beggining our research, this forum is great
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