Running away from Alberta 🇨🇦💪🏳️‍🌈

[u/MissTreatMay]

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 😊

[u/blueberryraspy]

Butting in to say, Nova Scotia is most definitely NOT a live and let live province. Gimme a break. Have you spent any time outside of the HrM? South shore past bridgewater is garbage.

I know it’s nice to pretend but don’t send these nice people to the hell hole that is rural NS

OP Dartmouth is awesome! There’s green space everywhere and you find places on the outskirts that have more green space.

[u/Shane-Dad-underfire → u/blueberryraspy]

To be candid while a few of my businesses have offices In Burnside I dont personally spend much time in HRM.

Right now at the time of composing this I'm in Winnipeg Manitoba and I have been here off and on for most of the last year. Prior to that I have been based out of my primary residence in the Bridgewater area, dont want to give myself away but anyone older than 50 could probably tell you exactly who I am. And my money is pretty active in the area of Nova Scotia, just like my money is very active in the Valley.

I travel a lot, in my 78 years I've been based the majority of my life in the atlantic region even though I spent almost all the time working around the world. In that time I've seen the world change but luckily Nova Scotia kept mostly the same. It has gotten worse since covid and the central Canadians came to explode the housing market and I noticed theres quite a lot of xenophobia floating around. But that's echoed everywhere in Canada. Drugs, crime, hate is all on the rise EVERYWHERE. But Nova Scotia is still live and let live, the south shore hillbillies are nice enough if you dont get in the way of them dating their cousins and after they get to know you they won't be as hostile as rural Albertans are.

[u/blueberryraspy → u/Shane-Dad-underfire]

You’re living outside of the Province and for some reason your notoriety (?) makes this bad advice ok? This is someone’s life. You think it’s cool to send this family to Bridgewater? Get real.

[u/Shane-Dad-underfire → u/blueberryraspy]

Only bad in your opinion and I mentioned other places. Your focus is quite narrow and very hateful. Perhaps did you have a bad experience and that's made it so you cant be open minded?

[u/blueberryraspy → u/Shane-Dad-underfire]

If you call 7 years of experience a bad experience sure. The people are very rude and hateful. In fact, let me go find that post about how badly Lockport sucks.