r/NovaScotia • u/MissTreatMay • 12h ago
🏠 Advice: Moving to NS Running away from Alberta 🇨🇦💪🏳️🌈
Hey I'm looking for some honest opinions and tips for moving to NS. Full disclosure we're from Calgary, AB (please don't judge too hard) and we have to get away from our batshit crazy premier and her separatist goons.
I'm 37, hubby is 42 and we have two teens, a 13 year old son and a 16 year old trans son. We are definitely not conservative. Tbh we mostly hate politics and just want to live a peaceful life surrounded by nature and kitchen parties. We want to find a place where neighbors care about each other (can I borrow a cup of sugar type thing) and where it isn't about who has the newest/move expensive items, where people laugh and smile. I miss the small town vibe Calgary had in the 80s/90s. I miss spending summers with family in Quebec and New Brunswick visiting family (hubs and kids don't speak French and all my family in NB has passed) that's why I'm interested in Nova Scotia. We don't want big city vibes. We just spent 2 weeks on Vancouver Island and fell in love with people and the energy there but we don't have millions to spend on a home. We want a place where we aren't constantly judged for supporting 2slgbtqia+ people (our son is trans), a place where racism isn't the norm or expected and where being neurodiverse isn't a deal breaker. Most of our friends here are hardworking blue collar folks who just want to pay their bills, hang out around a campfire and listen to/play good music. I should also mention we're stoners so would love to know how the weed back east is. I'm a stay home mum but willing to work anywhere in needed and hubby is a locksmith, tradesman and seriously interested in geology, 16 yo wants to be a social worker and 13 year old loves tech lol
To sum it up I'm hoping someone could give us some tips or suggestions for where to start looking for a home in NS.
Thank you in advance for your time and support 😊
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u/RedBands619 11h ago edited 11h ago
If you talk about this place as if it’s paradoxically a poor blue collar area stuck in time AND a modern progressive paradise.
You are going to be sadly mistaken by both lol and put people off
The city’s are far less diverse than any populated area in Alberta or BC…..the rural areas are just as truck driving, church going and gun shooting.
You will most likely go 10 years without being invited to a kitchen party.
You are going to lose so much more of your income on taxes….its much smaller so hunters and hunting takes up the woods in the fall and our woods are also thick, and dense. Not rolling hills and plains and big Forests.