I'm 66 years old, lived and will die here in Nova Scotia. Here are more than 5 reasons you should NOT stay away from Nova Scotia : Lived 30 years in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, then lived 6 years in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, then moved to Halifax for the last 30 years. I have never been without a Doctor one day in my whole life living here. Since getting my trade at AVTC in Sydney in 1989, and then my Red Seal, I have been out of work for only 3 months, in 34 years ....never had to leave the province my entire career, never seen a GST cheque since they were implemented. I've driven sport motorcycles as fast as they will go over the Cabot Trail so many times, I have lost count. I have caught brook, brown, rainbow and lake trout, smallmouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, chain pickerel, and landlocked Atlantic salmon and some of them legally. I've jigged for cod and halibut, motored 10 hours off the southern tip of Shelburne and caught 900 pound Tuna, 3 of them in fact. I have eaten lobsters on the same boat that caught them, devoured so much rock crab cooked in a 45 gallon drum that I should have gotten gout. I have Scuba dove for scallops so fresh that they did not need to be cooked, just ate them raw right on the shore beside an open fire. I have gone clam digging in inland and tidal waters of the counties of Annapolis, Digby and Kings County and along the Bay of Fundy. I've snared rabbits in the highlands of Cape Breton, shot Partridge in Belle Cote, feasted on White Tailed Deer, and Moose in Ingonish, ate seal hearts in Meat Cove. I've lived through Hurricane Juan, and then "White Juan", Dorian, Hortense, only lost a dozen trees. I have never lost my power for longer than 10 days in 66 years. I have lived my life in bars, taverns and nightclubs in Nova Scotia, but have never ever seen a hand gun in my life, never heard a hand gun being shot, never been around anybody that misused a long gun/rifle, not once. I have never seen hard drugs being used in public. I have never seen a prostitute in public in over 20 years, not a single strip club in all of Nova Scotia. I have never seen a homeless person sleeping on the streets of Nova Scotia. I've never been stabbed, sucker punched or robbed in my entire life in Nova Scotia. I have never been abused or disrespected by a Police Officer in Nova Scotia, unjustly. I have drank the purest moonshine known to man, more than once, produced in Belle Cote, Cape Breton.
You my friend have lived a wonderful life! I hope you understand that my video was a joke as I was listing all amazing things. I absolutely love Nova Scotia, and will be camping in Cape Breton this summer ☀️
@@TraceyFougere Oh man, I was on a ranting rage that day. Just by searching for facts about Nova Scotia, I came across a few sites that were putting this place down and the venting just had to be done. Not one word of what I typed there was a lie. There is nothing to weld in St. Peter's for my company, no big fish plants, no huge cold storage facilities, if there is a rink, we have never serviced it or replaced the system. One of my favorite runs on the motorcycles is leaving Sydney and driving fast to St. Peter's to eat at The Bras d'Or Lakes Inn. That run on the old number 4 is 54 miles (97kms), which takes 1 hour and 9 minutes, but I'll tell you, there are times when we make it there in 45 minutes, we would time ourselves right from the gas station on King's Road to the parking lot of The Bras d'Or Lakes Inn. I have taken my car up there and just stayed for hours while a "flotilla" of pleasure yachts were going through St. Peter's to the Bras d'Or lakes, one after another of AMEL sailboats, which go for around 1 to 2 million dollars each. I even ran down to that tiny liqour store in St. Peter's and picked up some booze for the sailors while they were moored in the channel by the road. I don't know if it's still there, but there was a small burger joint right after you go over the canal bridge on the Cape Breton side, on the waterside, that served the best burgers I can remember.
I love your reverse psychology and laughed aloud on realizing your approach. As a Nova Scotia resident I caution visitors to be very careful when standing at the curb, even on busy streets. Traffic will stop to let you cross, just because people are very courteous. It is the friendly people who make Nova Scotia so special. When we first moved here 22 years ago from Ontario, we pulled over on the shoulder of an expressway to look at a map. Within seconds a passing motorist stopped to ask us if we were alright, could he assist. Very typical. Oddly enough, even though Nova Scotia is not a wealthy province, residents here seem to understand they have something very special. Great video.
That specific example of people stopping to let you cross is infuriating because the place they're stopping to let you cross is not a crosswalk, and nobody pressed the button. It's dangerous as hell. People will jaywalk as if there's magic crosswalk walls, causing a screeching halt from 50 to stopped and the chain reaction down through the traffic a single pedestrian created. Same with people stopping traffic to let mofos turn
high taxes, limited access to healthcare, long cold winters, many days in the summer with 100% humidity and hurricanes. those are my five reasons why you may not want to move to nova scotia. lower overall cost of living compared with other parts of the country, summers are nice and warm, fall is often nice too, crime isn't too too bad, you're always either near a nice lake or beach. those are my five reasons you should.
So true. But you forgot how difficult it is to get a livable wage by being employed! That is almost impossible for most people! You do very well as a self employed trades person though. Very high cost of living but like you say it might be even worse somewhere else so there isn't really an alternative. We immigrated from Germany to Nova Scotia about 12 years ago and it is about the same show (taxes, government control,..).
make sure to offer 10-20% over asking price to drive up the cost of homes that you need to work out west to be able to afford here. I love needing to leave nova scotia to be able to afford nova scotia because a 1/2 acre lot with a trailer size house in the middle of nowhere only costs 250k these days. I love all the ontarians who moved here during covid when nobody was supposed to even be here and bought the houses cause they were cheap and then worked ontario wage jobs on computers from home. Ya'll talk toooo ssslllloooowww pick up the pace.
@@xald1234114 .... what??? In what world??? I bought my mini home and a 3 acre property of land on a quiet subdivision road on the Bras D'Or Lakes... put in driveway and septic and trailor pad.... Total cost.... $93,000.
I was worried at first because there's a plague of videos on UA-cam on why to leave Canada so I was curious about yours...but your video reversed that. Thanks for the positive vibes.
Nice twist on a video. You had me hooked for the first 15 sec. till I realised your ploy. I've lived all over North America but I moved home to Nova Scotia in my last move and that's that! :)
Almost every week I've seen news about missing persons in Nova Scotia, some of them are youth. Could anyone explain the reason of the high rate missing ? Thank you in advance.
there was just a horrific flash flood that claimed the life of 3 children and 2 adults - all of whom were missing for several days - this could be the issue?
@@jenhartnett-orser5242 I mentioned the missing persons before the flash food. For instance, youth Alexander Baines, 16 yo, last seen on June 21 on Hwy. 1 in Auburn, according Kings District RCMP. But I 've found out some youths run away from home and are found later.
Halifax! It's our capital city and there's amazing day trips all within an hours drive. Annapolis Valley, Lunenburg (UNESCO), Peggy's Cove, and so much more!
I live in California and my family roots trace back to Nova Scotia (i. e., Kings County, Gaspereau, Horton.) I SOOOOO want to visit and reconnect with my ancestral roots!
When someone asks me what my biggest dream is, Halifax comes to mind, because I need to know it before I die, the video's approach is very good, I was apprehensive at first and afraid of seeing my dream ruined, thank you Greg, it's been five years since save money to make your dream of spending six months studying at a college in Halifax come true.....
It's not as easy as people make it sound. It is my goal and my partner and I have grown up here. For the last decade we've been researching everything we need to do it and are getting close. We broke land last year actually but thanks to greedy corporations like NS power it is becoming impossible to truly live off grid here legally. Now to do it and skirt around the laws is another story. Many people do that but if your home is found and is found to not follow building codes the province will destroy everything you built. If you go solar and don't pay to have it hooked up to NS power so that they can make the money off it again you will be screwed. There is no legal way to have enough power to live and not have to pay NS power for it :( More and more of us want to live off grid here but there is a lot of rules surrounding it that most either don't realize or choose to ignore which makes them risk losing everything they worked so hard to build. Honestly unless you have access to large amounts of funds to get your homestead established it isn't really feasible. The cost of living and housing crisis here has forced many people into the woods illegally. I spend a lot of time traveling all the trails around my town and neighboring towns and every weekend when I go out exploring I see more and more shacks and huts being put up for people to live in or people living in their vehicles parked back old roads. This was a great province and is still pretty with a lot of polite people who are native to the area but that's where the good parts end in my opinion as a life long resident and country/outdoors girl
Being a true Nova Scotian I love living here. Have visited many places but never wanted to live anywhere else. Yes we may get some bad weather, but compared to other places the weather is not as rough. It is nice to say I live in a town that is over two hundred years old, We have a lot of history in Nova Scotia. Very scenic drives, I love being close to the water, and the Northumberland Strait with the warmest water north of Virginia. Love that part.
@@thegregpierce you're absolutely right about the friendliness - we were looking at the exterior of a home for sale, and ended up meeting the neighbour, who took us on a tour of HER home, which she was considering selling - made us Caesars and sat on the back deck for a good ole chin wag. Made a joke to the lady in front of me at the grocery store - that her cart full of goodies looked far more appealing than mine - and she promptly invited us for dinner. (supper?) and was dead serious! We can't wait to move down! We're building on a lot we purchased in the Valley
There is a group of Cajuns travelling to Nova Scotia in August for the WOrld Acadian Congress. Check with the Acadian Museum in Erath. They still have room.
@@kamikazes03 I'm gonna have to check it out. I'd have to bring a support person because I'm mostly blind. Nova Scotia is actually on my bucket list before I lose the rest of my vision. I also don't know if I'd actually come back because August is gonna be hell tenperature
@@lagniappesbaby Nova Scotia is surrounded by the Atlantic ocean and the second half of August is cool in the morning. If you are Cajun, you must visit Grand Pré. There will be an Acadian invasion in Nova Scotia around Aug. 15....I visited the area two years ago; very lush by Canadian standards.
@@kamikazes03 I've seen pictures and I wanna go back in time and tell my ancestors to go back! Everything just looks cleaner. It looks like the friendliness is also there too.
@@lagniappesbaby But you have to know most Acadians don't live in NS, like my ancestors, they resettled in New Brunswick, close to Quebec. I was in Louisiana a couple of months ago and plan to return. It is so far from my Canada but it feels like déjà vu. It is strange in a good way.
Oh, also if you are looking for the small community vibe you will find it. But do not go thinking because it is located in Nova Scotia that you experience will be any different than another other isolated small community that is pretty homogeneous in terms of culture, religion, sexuality, and all that stuff. These communities have the same issues that all of them have. Racism, sexism, homophobia, religious based discrimination based on whether you are part of the main flock of church goes or not, and discrimination that can be based on a surprising amount of thing you wouldn’t normally even consider. But if you can get over all that, you will find some genuinely good people in these communities just like everywhere else. The only added plus about Nova Scotia for me is all the water access for boating, fishing salt water and fresh, canoeing, kayaking, and that is definitely one thing the video got right, you want water access in this province you will get it. But also keep in mind that water access can vary depending on where you are starting of from it can take less than 5 minutes to get to the water, it can take up to a hour or more. Just because it is surrounded by water mostly does not mean it has no inland areas. I have lived here my whole life and I would never change that. The worst part about living here besides what I have already mentioned would have to be the winters and also again, there is very little to do unless you are the type of person to always be finding stuff to do without having others plan or set it up for you. It’s a beautiful place. Cheers!!! 🍻
@sulleadiana4504 Unfortunately those are in the province of Ontario, Canada, I live in Nova Scotia. I am afraid I can't provide any information on those locations.
Reason #6….if you don’t like driving, be prepared, because if you live rurally, you will have to drive quite a distance to the nearest Walmart/grocery store
Nova Scotians are super friendly to your face, is what you should be saying. Because they certainly love to talk behind your back. But it kind of makes sense considering how boring the whole province is and also the long winters… They have to entertain themselves somehow.
I know it is not the best outlook I am presenting to people. But I really just want people to know that it has the same issues that every other location tends to have for the most part. Just because it seems like we are all friendly fishermen here doesn’t mean that we are all like that. I will say one thing that I found about the place that was nice. One year when we had a extremely bad snow storm, my wife and I got stranded on the highway traveling for work and the amount of people that came to help out us stranded people out that day was amazing. But really that kind of kindness can happen anywhere really. I really would like to think that there are more nice people here on average compared to other areas around the world, which is most likely the case. But from my time spent abroad I never really noticed that much of a difference when comparing small town life and even big city life. I lived in Halifax to attend Dalhousie University for my graduate degree and it was a nice city. I am not racist by stating this one issue with the city though. I am only trying to state a fact. The infrastructure provided by the government for schooling, healthcare, and other aspects of life you would expect the government to address with our tax money, are all failing in some way. Healthcare in this province is absolutely terrible. So my question relating back to me saying that, is a simple one. If our healthcare system is already having issues with treating the amount of naturally born Canadians in the province then how is Trudeau’s immigration plan of bringing in another 2 million to the area by 2030 going to make this issue any better? I think it is pretty clear that it will make things a lot worse. This is one subject I am extremely passionate about because I almost died at the local hospital because of the wait time. This same hospital lost a young mother in the waiting room just this year. The overall point I am getting at is that our current infrastructure we have in place here in Nova Scotia is not adequate enough as is and the federal government is planning on burdening that same infrastructure without making any changes, with way too many more people. Another thing I hate to say but it needs to be said. I had friends that were part of the LGBT community when I was living down in Halifax and the last few years my wife and I were living there some of our friends had very bad experiences with a certain demographic of immigrants in the city. Some of our friends were even sent to the city’s main hospital due to them being attacked simply for holding hands… Again, I am simply stating things that my wife and I seen with our own two eyes while we lived there. The sad part about this issue is that it only seemed to be getting worse as time moved forward and more immigrants were situated in the city. But we now live in a rural area near the New Brunswick border and there are immigrants here to but a lot less and they are very involved with the community, especially those who have children attending the local school where my wife teaches. I am not trying to stir up discord, again I am only trying to be 100% honest about life here. Cheers!!!
@@thegregpierce last thing I wanted to say. I have lived all over this province and others during my life so far and the best small town experience I ever had was in the small university town of Sackville, New Brunswick, where Mount Allison University is located. My wife and I never felt in danger at any time while walking around in that town at any time of the day or night. People there on average do tend to be a lot friendly. The town was also rated in a magazine back in the 1990s as the best small town experience to live in if planning on moving to the Maritimes. I haven’t checked up on that magazine since then though. But it was a great place to live and we are currently trying to move there in order for our children to go to school there. It really is almost kind of amazing the difference you will notice when traveling from Sackville to its neighbouring small town in Nova Scotia, Amherst. The difference in the people and the look of both places is almost like night and day. Cheers again, this is my last message here for now. Thanks for your video sir. Cheers! 🍻
Truth: No Doctors ! Over 100,000 now waiting to see a doctor Highest taxes in Canada Very high rents equivalent to Toronto ! Grocery costs are high ! Wages are very low ! Lots of grid lock traffic on the small streets and highway most times. Very long icy cold winters but nice summers. No vacancy for apartment lookers ! House costs are average to compare with rest of the country between 600,000-800,000 for a single detached. Costs of contractors if you can get one are very expensive ! Restaurants are quite good overall !
Yes, I agree regarding lots of your points, however unfortunately that is the case in may provinces right now. Average home in HRM is around $500,000, traffic is a dream compared to major cities in the country, and wages are becoming competitive. But good insight!
Yes wages are extremely low compared to the cost of living. But its probably not better somewhere else- maybe the USA but it would be hard to immigrate..
Hurricanes can be an issue here as well..no fire fighting planes..Just a couple helicopters with a rope and bucket..ask Tim houston..he'll tell you they are better then planes..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cost of living is ridiculous. Taxes are second highest, crime and homelessness in Halifax is widespread, roads are horrible, cell service quality terrible and cost is huge, Power cost high , possibly one of the largest populations of Karen’s in Canada, shit drivers. Not really sure why I continue living in the shit hole.
For me is it all bulshit I love Nova Scotia. I met a lot of friendly people I am Photographer. By the way, I love hole Canada. That Country is in my heart
High taxes, its a 19 hour drive to the nearest decent major Canadian city, no jobs unless you want to take your college or university degree to Starbucks, your car rusts, stupid 2 year vehicle inspection, sales tax thru the roof, they cant design a ring road, other roads like spaghetti, highway exits are not numbered logically, zero oil field activity, the oil companies all left, you got to pay to cross a bridge, the wind there is nuts, fog like see no more then 60 feet somedays. Have not province, have no young people and I aint coming back. The best investment NS made was the road outta there. I remember the day I left, best choice ever
Friends of mine back in the seventies claimed to be members of the CBSeparationist Army. Blowing up the causeway was part of the plan. With beer bottles or something being thrown from the shore lines. Har har har😅of course. Back then you could joke. They’ve taken all the funny out these days.
@@susanyeadon6657 Their leader was Captain John Cabot Trail. :P But seriously, we SHOULD seek independence. We don't need to trade; we have ALL we need without any other place in the world. Food, fuel, arable land, salt ... everything humans need to live successfully.
you call those red flags ....... too funny those are the exact reasons why i want to go there !!! if you don't like friendly people then the place to go is British Columbia but if you do like friendly people don;t go to BC extremely hard to make freinds there
Come play on our Island... the Bras D'Or Lake (Arm of Gold) is the largest salt water lake in the world. If you love lobster and water sports... come on to Cape Breton and have some fun!
Actually I would avoid, especially if from UK they say ' you are taking our jobs' lovely scenes and ocean, but they follow the USA liberal scene!!!!!! Canadian universities, kinda like a British second rate college standard! All Canadian resturants will try to give you a larger bill, than you food the actually eat!!!!!!!!!! ( At every and I mean every resturant ) More like a little wildwest USA place now, long gone are the white pickett fences it had years ago, now just pickup trucks and long grass in the front yard- stoned!!!!! Thats why you find a few Nova scotians in England, Toronto or Calgary!
@Craig_whyte I love that Trailer Park Boys is your reference point. Yes our summers are beautiful, Fall is incredible, our spring is somewhat nonexistant, and our winters are much milder than any parts of the country.
Nova scotia is weird and bad, high tax , bad roads, high rents, no jobs opportunity, no doctors, expensive grocery, no trains no trams ,less airport connectivity to connect other part of world,, all over its shit place province to live in Canada 🇨🇦
Having grown up there and then travelled widely, I can add some real ones. - Food: Have you noticed that Nova Scotia has as high an obesity rate as almost anywhere? And it's getting worse! It's not weakness of character. Healthy food exists (barely) in Halifax if you know where to look (challenge for you: try to buy cream. Go ahead, I'll wait), but impossible outside the city, unless you spend many hours hunting down farmers' markets. *Everything* is highly processed, full of added sweeteners, preservatives, stabilisers. Consequently, most Nova Scotians can't help but get fat. - Noise pollution: There are few pollution regulations, and noise pollution is especially tolerated. Halifax has numerous purposefully-enloudened cars and motorcycles. The more iconic areas are inundated by Harley pollution all summer. And as the world urgently tries to decarbonise, Nova Scotians just keep buying more and more motoryachts and jetskis, destroying the serene beauty of our formerly world-class harbours and hurricane holes and beaches. - No transportation: You *need* a car. If you're too young, have a disability, can't afford a car, or simply don't like driving, tough. No wonder we have such a severe problem with drunk driving! Biking is dangerous everywhere, and there is a mandatory bike helmet law, which further reduces the number of cyclists, cripples our attempts at bikeshares, and adds to our strong culture of victim-blaming. - Medical care: Waits are ridiculously long, so practically, there isn't any! This is largely due to the utter failure to invest in public health policies such as active transportation and regulating Canada's strong ultra-processed-food mafia. Our medical system is being utterly crushed under the weight of a government obsessed with maximising corporate profits, with little interest in preventative medicine. - Pubs? Seriously? Nova Scotia does not have good beer. While the highly protectionist trade policy has jumpstarted numerous microbreweries (nearly 1 per 10,000 people!), it has also allowed them to compete only with other breweries in Nova Scotia, and never have to acknowledge the world of beer. Consequently, you CANNOT buy good beers here. At all. Even Unibroue--probably Canada's only world-class brewery, available and prized all over the world!--is not available in Nova Scotia. For an objective standard rather than my personal taste, I refer you to RateBeer and BeerAdvocate. - Similar story for coffee. Don't even get me started. There are reasons to love it, but let's be real: the world is urgently fighting to move forward, but Nova Scotia retains and defends many of the worst of North America's 20th-century mistakes.
I appreciate your input but disagree whole heartedly! I certainly understand Nova Scotia isn't for everyone (just like any other place in the world). I think it's easy to focus on negatives during a time where everything is expensive and life in generally has become increasingly challenging for western society.
@@thegregpierce Disagree with... what? The bulk of what I posted was easily verifiable facts. Disagreeing with facts would make you incorrect! (: About all I can figure is that you disagree with how judgemental I am about them? Since you're wholehearted in your disagreement, absent specifics, I am forced to assume that you think that easy access to healthy food is pointless, there's nothing wrong with an obesity epidemic, pollution is to be celebrated, people without cars are irrelevant, and there's nothing wrong with inferior beer and coffee. I guess you've got me on the last one--I'm a foodie, excited about the latest developments in those flavours, but you don't have to be!
@@fugue137 You do know that rage and bitterness is bad for your health, right? Here, have a beer. Oh, I forgot, your beer "standards" are so high. LMAO
@@jennifermarlow. Rage and bitterness? I'm pointing out ways in which Canada is inferior to many other countries. If that fills you with rage and bitterness, don't let it eat you--rage and bitterness can be great fuel for making the system better for everyone, if you use it wisely. But living with problematic systems because you don't like hearing bad things about bad systems is... unhelpful.
@@thegregpierce Oh please, don't play dumb. By 'me' I didn't mean to me specifically, I don't know you, but to anyone who watches these cheesy videos about how amazing Nova Scotia is from the perspective of a realtor who wants to sell sell sell and nothing but sell. Much like car vehicle sales men, realtors aren't exactly respected.
@fedorbutochnikow5312 I do sell houses, and to further clarify again. I mean you don't seem like a kind person that I'd enjoy working with, so no I have no interest in selling YOU a home in Nova Scotia. Thank you for all the engagement and helping my algorithm. Have a great day.
@@thegregpierce What is insensitive is that not one person has been disciplined or fired for this! There is NO law and order in NS. The incompetents are still in charge, no change and it will happen again.
Lowest hrs rate in Canada.cie don't pay enough.your$ doesn't go very far.high cost,rent food.not a sport city.not a food city. Away from main city.windy.hurricane watch every season.bad bad drivers.pot holes.infrastuctures bad.crimes rates raising.navy town.only shows picturesque cost line,nice.no rest for high cost in this place.shit hole.
I'm 66 years old, lived and will die here in Nova Scotia.
Here are more than 5 reasons you should NOT stay away from Nova Scotia :
Lived 30 years in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, then lived 6 years in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, then moved to Halifax for the last 30 years.
I have never been without a Doctor one day in my whole life living here.
Since getting my trade at AVTC in Sydney in 1989, and then my Red Seal, I have been out of work for only 3 months, in 34 years ....never had to leave the province my entire career, never seen a GST cheque since they were implemented.
I've driven sport motorcycles as fast as they will go over the Cabot Trail so many times, I have lost count.
I have caught brook, brown, rainbow and lake trout, smallmouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, chain pickerel, and landlocked Atlantic salmon and some of them legally.
I've jigged for cod and halibut, motored 10 hours off the southern tip of Shelburne and caught 900 pound Tuna, 3 of them in fact.
I have eaten lobsters on the same boat that caught them, devoured so much rock crab cooked in a 45 gallon drum that I should have gotten gout.
I have Scuba dove for scallops so fresh that they did not need to be cooked, just ate them raw right on the shore beside an open fire.
I have gone clam digging in inland and tidal waters of the counties of Annapolis, Digby and Kings County and along the Bay of Fundy.
I've snared rabbits in the highlands of Cape Breton, shot Partridge in Belle Cote, feasted on White Tailed Deer, and Moose in Ingonish, ate seal hearts in Meat Cove.
I've lived through Hurricane Juan, and then "White Juan", Dorian, Hortense, only lost a dozen trees.
I have never lost my power for longer than 10 days in 66 years.
I have lived my life in bars, taverns and nightclubs in Nova Scotia, but have never ever seen a hand gun in my life, never heard a hand gun being shot, never been around anybody that misused a long gun/rifle, not once.
I have never seen hard drugs being used in public.
I have never seen a prostitute in public in over 20 years, not a single strip club in all of Nova Scotia.
I have never seen a homeless person sleeping on the streets of Nova Scotia.
I've never been stabbed, sucker punched or robbed in my entire life in Nova Scotia.
I have never been abused or disrespected by a Police Officer in Nova Scotia, unjustly.
I have drank the purest moonshine known to man, more than once, produced in Belle Cote, Cape Breton.
You my friend have lived a wonderful life! I hope you understand that my video was a joke as I was listing all amazing things. I absolutely love Nova Scotia, and will be camping in Cape Breton this summer ☀️
Spoken by a true Cape Bretoner OG. I have never been to Yarmouth but I wonder if our paths crossed in Cape Breton. Ever been to St. Peter's area???🎉
@@TraceyFougere Oh man, I was on a ranting rage that day. Just by searching for facts about Nova Scotia, I came across a few sites that were putting this place down and the venting just had to be done. Not one word of what I typed there was a lie. There is nothing to weld in St. Peter's for my company, no big fish plants, no huge cold storage facilities, if there is a rink, we have never serviced it or replaced the system.
One of my favorite runs on the motorcycles is leaving Sydney and driving fast to St. Peter's to eat at The Bras d'Or Lakes Inn. That run on the old number 4 is 54 miles (97kms), which takes 1 hour and 9 minutes, but I'll tell you, there are times when we make it there in 45 minutes, we would time ourselves right from the gas station on King's Road to the parking lot of The Bras d'Or Lakes Inn.
I have taken my car up there and just stayed for hours while a "flotilla" of pleasure yachts were going through St. Peter's to the Bras d'Or lakes, one after another of AMEL sailboats, which go for around 1 to 2 million dollars each.
I even ran down to that tiny liqour store in St. Peter's and picked up some booze for the sailors while they were moored in the channel by the road.
I don't know if it's still there, but there was a small burger joint right after you go over the canal bridge on the Cape Breton side, on the waterside, that served the best burgers I can remember.
@@TYRONE_SHOELACES .. or maybe Jiggys. One is a bus next to the Inn.. the other is across from the provincial park entrance area
Well said.!!!
Don’t you love when tourists make these silly videos thinking they know everything about our beautiful country. 😂😂😂
I love your reverse psychology and laughed aloud on realizing your approach. As a Nova Scotia resident I caution visitors to be very careful when standing at the curb, even on busy streets. Traffic will stop to let you cross, just because people are very courteous. It is the friendly people who make Nova Scotia so special. When we first moved here 22 years ago from Ontario, we pulled over on the shoulder of an expressway to look at a map. Within seconds a passing motorist stopped to ask us if we were alright, could he assist. Very typical. Oddly enough, even though Nova Scotia is not a wealthy province, residents here seem to understand they have something very special. Great video.
Thank you so much and I love hearing your perspective after living here for 22 years!
That specific example of people stopping to let you cross is infuriating because the place they're stopping to let you cross is not a crosswalk, and nobody pressed the button. It's dangerous as hell. People will jaywalk as if there's magic crosswalk walls, causing a screeching halt from 50 to stopped and the chain reaction down through the traffic a single pedestrian created. Same with people stopping traffic to let mofos turn
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@@xald1234114 Found the CFA. :P
high taxes, limited access to healthcare, long cold winters, many days in the summer with 100% humidity and hurricanes. those are my five reasons why you may not want to move to nova scotia. lower overall cost of living compared with other parts of the country, summers are nice and warm, fall is often nice too, crime isn't too too bad, you're always either near a nice lake or beach. those are my five reasons you should.
So true. But you forgot how difficult it is to get a livable wage by being employed! That is almost impossible for most people! You do very well as a self employed trades person though. Very high cost of living but like you say it might be even worse somewhere else so there isn't really an alternative. We immigrated from Germany to Nova Scotia about 12 years ago and it is about the same show (taxes, government control,..).
Here in the U.S., we also have a limited access to health care.
Its too expensive
Limited Access to Health Care!!??
Impossible Access to Health Care.
Just be wary of the stigma of being a CFA.
Coming from Alberta, the taxes in the Maritimes were shocking 😂
This is OUTRAGEOUS! We're traveling to NS in three months and hoping to relocate. It all seems and looks stellar.
It is absolutely amazing! Was just having fun with it and listing all positive things 👌
you should look at Tyrone's comment below. There is always someone who looks at the negative but there are great reasons to be here too
It is actually Amazing!!! You are gonna LOVE it here! Not many venues for entertainment... but lots of great food and local entertainment.
make sure to offer 10-20% over asking price to drive up the cost of homes that you need to work out west to be able to afford here. I love needing to leave nova scotia to be able to afford nova scotia because a 1/2 acre lot with a trailer size house in the middle of nowhere only costs 250k these days.
I love all the ontarians who moved here during covid when nobody was supposed to even be here and bought the houses cause they were cheap and then worked ontario wage jobs on computers from home.
Ya'll talk toooo ssslllloooowww pick up the pace.
@@xald1234114 .... what??? In what world??? I bought my mini home and a 3 acre property of land on a quiet subdivision road on the Bras D'Or Lakes... put in driveway and septic and trailor pad.... Total cost.... $93,000.
I was worried at first because there's a plague of videos on UA-cam on why to leave Canada so I was curious about yours...but your video reversed that. Thanks for the positive vibes.
You are very welcome my friend!
There's a plague of video's on leaving Corruptistan for a reason bro...
Nice twist on a video. You had me hooked for the first 15 sec. till I realised your ploy. I've lived all over North America but I moved home to Nova Scotia in my last move and that's that! :)
I appreciate that! And glad you finally came to your senses and planted roots in NS! 😏
That sums it up, I am visiting Halifax.
You should!
It's amazing how many people didn't get it... and you left out the fantastic seafood and great fiddle music. A super writeup.
@@jgc7928 hahah thank you! I really appreciate it.
Almost every week I've seen news about missing persons in Nova Scotia, some of them are youth. Could anyone explain the reason of the high rate missing ? Thank you in advance.
i don't think there is a high missing persons rate. but those who are, they just spread the word to try to find them
there was just a horrific flash flood that claimed the life of 3 children and 2 adults - all of whom were missing for several days - this could be the issue?
@@jenhartnett-orser5242 I mentioned the missing persons before the flash food. For instance, youth Alexander Baines, 16 yo, last seen on June 21 on Hwy. 1 in Auburn, according Kings District RCMP. But I 've found out some youths run away from home and are found later.
there's a group of very old men that killed people at random in Nova Scotia
there's a group of very old men that killed people at random in Nova Scotia
OMG you got me.i live in Africa and i just come across ur video.Nice approach Hope one day i will pay a visit to Nova Scotia.
Please do!
Where is the most central place you would stay at so that you can make day trips and see the most you can in a week? Thanks
Halifax! It's our capital city and there's amazing day trips all within an hours drive. Annapolis Valley, Lunenburg (UNESCO), Peggy's Cove, and so much more!
@@thegregpierce we are coming up from Yarmouth looking forward to seeing your beautiful state
I live in California and my family roots trace back to Nova Scotia (i. e., Kings County, Gaspereau, Horton.) I SOOOOO want to visit and reconnect with my ancestral roots!
That's very cool! From West Coast America to East Coast Canada!
When someone asks me what my biggest dream is, Halifax comes to mind, because I need to know it before I die, the video's approach is very good, I was apprehensive at first and afraid of seeing my dream ruined, thank you Greg, it's been five years since save money to make your dream of spending six months studying at a college in Halifax come true.....
Well I hope you get to experience this special place!
His 5 reasons not to come sound like the best 5 reasons to come.
@@rampaulontherampage8976 You're on to me!
I wonder how is living off grid there. We are currently living this way and we love it. But Nova Scotia looks great and sound for the most part great.
There are lots of people doing it and it's only gotten easier with advancements in solar.
It's not as easy as people make it sound. It is my goal and my partner and I have grown up here. For the last decade we've been researching everything we need to do it and are getting close. We broke land last year actually but thanks to greedy corporations like NS power it is becoming impossible to truly live off grid here legally. Now to do it and skirt around the laws is another story. Many people do that but if your home is found and is found to not follow building codes the province will destroy everything you built. If you go solar and don't pay to have it hooked up to NS power so that they can make the money off it again you will be screwed. There is no legal way to have enough power to live and not have to pay NS power for it :( More and more of us want to live off grid here but there is a lot of rules surrounding it that most either don't realize or choose to ignore which makes them risk losing everything they worked so hard to build. Honestly unless you have access to large amounts of funds to get your homestead established it isn't really feasible. The cost of living and housing crisis here has forced many people into the woods illegally. I spend a lot of time traveling all the trails around my town and neighboring towns and every weekend when I go out exploring I see more and more shacks and huts being put up for people to live in or people living in their vehicles parked back old roads. This was a great province and is still pretty with a lot of polite people who are native to the area but that's where the good parts end in my opinion as a life long resident and country/outdoors girl
Being a true Nova Scotian I love living here. Have visited many places but never wanted to live anywhere else. Yes we may get some bad weather, but compared to other places the weather is not as rough. It is nice to say I live in a town that is over two hundred years old, We have a lot of history in Nova Scotia. Very scenic drives, I love being close to the water, and the Northumberland Strait with the warmest water north of Virginia. Love that part.
Well said!
Hahahha…loved your sarcasm ….beautiful province and a must to visit or live in ☺️☀️😎
Plenty more where that came from! 🤣
I am pleasantly surprised by your approach. ❤❤
Thank you!
how are they "red flags"
its almost like you want to keep a certain type of person from going to nova scotia
This was satire my friend. Nova Scotia is awesome and welcome to all.
@@thegregpierce gotcha i couldnt tell
lol
@@thegregpierce you're absolutely right about the friendliness - we were looking at the exterior of a home for sale, and ended up meeting the neighbour, who took us on a tour of HER home, which she was considering selling - made us Caesars and sat on the back deck for a good ole chin wag. Made a joke to the lady in front of me at the grocery store - that her cart full of goodies looked far more appealing than mine - and she promptly invited us for dinner. (supper?) and was dead serious! We can't wait to move down! We're building on a lot we purchased in the Valley
pov : "name 5 flaws of yourself" during a job interview
Such a good comment 🤣
Thanks for reminding me. The last time I was in Nova Scotia was 1986.
Sounds like you're overdue for a return!
Great vid, love how you sold the Province without selling the province😆
Thank you, I really appreciate that! 🙏
And you might want to stay away from our cabins at Hector’s Point in Iona, the view might be too overwhelming.
I wish there was some kind of program where yall would take some of us cajuns back from louisiana. It sucks here. Lol. But seriously, come get us.
There is a group of Cajuns travelling to Nova Scotia in August for the WOrld Acadian Congress. Check with the Acadian Museum in Erath. They still have room.
@@kamikazes03 I'm gonna have to check it out. I'd have to bring a support person because I'm mostly blind. Nova Scotia is actually on my bucket list before I lose the rest of my vision. I also don't know if I'd actually come back because August is gonna be hell tenperature
@@lagniappesbaby Nova Scotia is surrounded by the Atlantic ocean and the second half of August is cool in the morning. If you are Cajun, you must visit Grand Pré. There will be an Acadian invasion in Nova Scotia around Aug. 15....I visited the area two years ago; very lush by Canadian standards.
@@kamikazes03 I've seen pictures and I wanna go back in time and tell my ancestors to go back! Everything just looks cleaner. It looks like the friendliness is also there too.
@@lagniappesbaby But you have to know most Acadians don't live in NS, like my ancestors, they resettled in New Brunswick, close to Quebec. I was in Louisiana a couple of months ago and plan to return. It is so far from my Canada but it feels like déjà vu. It is strange in a good way.
seems like you are trying to convince us to go there lol 💯💯
@@colin7761 hahah you are on to me!
This it’s my home I’m from Cape Breton even worse than Halifax but I wouldn’t leave ever
@@marshallpardy1314 I love Cape Breton!
Sarcasm Trophy Award goes to you..Well done Sir ✔️
@stephenpickettsp I've never wanted a Trophy more than this one. Thank you! 🙏
I'm living in NS and simply I love it
So glad to hear it! It's an amazing place
Haha you forgot mention live music😊
Oh, also if you are looking for the small community vibe you will find it. But do not go thinking because it is located in Nova Scotia that you experience will be any different than another other isolated small community that is pretty homogeneous in terms of culture, religion, sexuality, and all that stuff. These communities have the same issues that all of them have. Racism, sexism, homophobia, religious based discrimination based on whether you are part of the main flock of church goes or not, and discrimination that can be based on a surprising amount of thing you wouldn’t normally even consider. But if you can get over all that, you will find some genuinely good people in these communities just like everywhere else. The only added plus about Nova Scotia for me is all the water access for boating, fishing salt water and fresh, canoeing, kayaking, and that is definitely one thing the video got right, you want water access in this province you will get it. But also keep in mind that water access can vary depending on where you are starting of from it can take less than 5 minutes to get to the water, it can take up to a hour or more. Just because it is surrounded by water mostly does not mean it has no inland areas. I have lived here my whole life and I would never change that. The worst part about living here besides what I have already mentioned would have to be the winters and also again, there is very little to do unless you are the type of person to always be finding stuff to do without having others plan or set it up for you. It’s a beautiful place. Cheers!!! 🍻
St John's has more pubs and bars .I love NS! But that was inaccurate.
@ShawnWhite-o3h As mentioned in the video it fluctuates depending on population changes and opening and closing of restaurants, pubs, bars, etc.
Love your sense of humour....
Thank you so much!
jajaja...I like your ingenious way of getting people to watch your video!
Thank you!
Am a Kenyan and l can't wait to move to Sarnia or Cambridge yet to decide as an international student ❤ this is my daily prayer to God
You will make it happen!
Hello sir please between Sarnia and Cambridge which is favourable for immigrants on your own opinion please help am still confused
@sulleadiana4504 Unfortunately those are in the province of Ontario, Canada, I live in Nova Scotia. I am afraid I can't provide any information on those locations.
@@sulleadiana4504 Sarnia cold and quiet. Cambridge less cold and more entertainment if that is what you like.
Smart Sarcasm. Now more reasons for me to retire in Nova Scotia.
Thank you I appreciate that!
Reason #6….if you don’t like driving, be prepared, because if you live rurally, you will have to drive quite a distance to the nearest Walmart/grocery store
🤣 I think that's most rural places though.
I’m from Edmonton, Alberta. Okay… you convinced me! 😂
Please come join in on the fun!
Wow. Really. Should be 5 good reason to visit Nova Scotia
Exactly 😉
I was going to give you a thumbs down but you made me laugh and I love your XWing.
Thanks... I guess? Why the thumbs down?
Great!
Nova Scotians are super friendly to your face, is what you should be saying. Because they certainly love to talk behind your back. But it kind of makes sense considering how boring the whole province is and also the long winters… They have to entertain themselves somehow.
@@Declined469 Thanks for sharing your positive outlook!
I know it is not the best outlook I am presenting to people. But I really just want people to know that it has the same issues that every other location tends to have for the most part. Just because it seems like we are all friendly fishermen here doesn’t mean that we are all like that. I will say one thing that I found about the place that was nice. One year when we had a extremely bad snow storm, my wife and I got stranded on the highway traveling for work and the amount of people that came to help out us stranded people out that day was amazing. But really that kind of kindness can happen anywhere really. I really would like to think that there are more nice people here on average compared to other areas around the world, which is most likely the case. But from my time spent abroad I never really noticed that much of a difference when comparing small town life and even big city life. I lived in Halifax to attend Dalhousie University for my graduate degree and it was a nice city. I am not racist by stating this one issue with the city though. I am only trying to state a fact. The infrastructure provided by the government for schooling, healthcare, and other aspects of life you would expect the government to address with our tax money, are all failing in some way. Healthcare in this province is absolutely terrible. So my question relating back to me saying that, is a simple one. If our healthcare system is already having issues with treating the amount of naturally born Canadians in the province then how is Trudeau’s immigration plan of bringing in another 2 million to the area by 2030 going to make this issue any better? I think it is pretty clear that it will make things a lot worse. This is one subject I am extremely passionate about because I almost died at the local hospital because of the wait time. This same hospital lost a young mother in the waiting room just this year. The overall point I am getting at is that our current infrastructure we have in place here in Nova Scotia is not adequate enough as is and the federal government is planning on burdening that same infrastructure without making any changes, with way too many more people. Another thing I hate to say but it needs to be said. I had friends that were part of the LGBT community when I was living down in Halifax and the last few years my wife and I were living there some of our friends had very bad experiences with a certain demographic of immigrants in the city. Some of our friends were even sent to the city’s main hospital due to them being attacked simply for holding hands… Again, I am simply stating things that my wife and I seen with our own two eyes while we lived there. The sad part about this issue is that it only seemed to be getting worse as time moved forward and more immigrants were situated in the city. But we now live in a rural area near the New Brunswick border and there are immigrants here to but a lot less and they are very involved with the community, especially those who have children attending the local school where my wife teaches. I am not trying to stir up discord, again I am only trying to be 100% honest about life here. Cheers!!!
@@thegregpierce last thing I wanted to say. I have lived all over this province and others during my life so far and the best small town experience I ever had was in the small university town of Sackville, New Brunswick, where Mount Allison University is located. My wife and I never felt in danger at any time while walking around in that town at any time of the day or night. People there on average do tend to be a lot friendly. The town was also rated in a magazine back in the 1990s as the best small town experience to live in if planning on moving to the Maritimes. I haven’t checked up on that magazine since then though. But it was a great place to live and we are currently trying to move there in order for our children to go to school there. It really is almost kind of amazing the difference you will notice when traveling from Sackville to its neighbouring small town in Nova Scotia, Amherst. The difference in the people and the look of both places is almost like night and day. Cheers again, this is my last message here for now. Thanks for your video sir. Cheers! 🍻
@Declined469 cheers to you! Thanks for the insightful discord. Like any place there are certainly cons to go with the pros.
@Declined469, You are talking utter shite.
I'd love to visit due to having Acadian roots.
D. Hebert
Please do!
Reverse psychology 😂
You got it! It's a classic 👌
Truth: No Doctors !
Over 100,000 now waiting to see a doctor
Highest taxes in Canada
Very high rents equivalent to Toronto !
Grocery costs are high !
Wages are very low !
Lots of grid lock traffic on the small streets and highway most times.
Very long icy cold winters but nice summers.
No vacancy for apartment lookers !
House costs are average to compare with rest of the country between 600,000-800,000 for a single detached. Costs of contractors if you can get one are very expensive !
Restaurants are quite good overall !
Yes, I agree regarding lots of your points, however unfortunately that is the case in may provinces right now.
Average home in HRM is around $500,000, traffic is a dream compared to major cities in the country, and wages are becoming competitive. But good insight!
Yes wages are extremely low compared to the cost of living. But its probably not better somewhere else- maybe the USA but it would be hard to immigrate..
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My first thought was lol. I wasn't expecting the goods things
You were not alone!
I knew this would be sarcastic lol
Hope it didn't disappoint! Lol
@@thegregpierce loved it ;)
Reason # 6, If you don't like the fresh air (full of oxygen) especially in summer, stay away
Hahaha 100%!
Hurricanes can be an issue here as well..no fire fighting planes..Just a couple helicopters with a rope and bucket..ask Tim houston..he'll tell you they are better then planes..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@jamiehalifax4954 All valid points!
More like 5 reasons to move to Nova Scotia
Absolutely was just having some fun with it!
Cost of living is ridiculous. Taxes are second highest, crime and homelessness in Halifax is widespread, roads are horrible, cell service quality terrible and cost is huge, Power cost high , possibly one of the largest populations of Karen’s in Canada, shit drivers. Not really sure why I continue living in the shit hole.
Thanks for your feedback!
The poorest province.
Crime is not widespread. Sheesh.
Aye , it’s quite Nova 🏴
@@duneideann9241 You know it!
@ ah ken it
You ken it
Even Patsy Kensit
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Dam i thought you were gonna shitbon nova sounds like a nice place to vist or retirement
Of course not!
Dang! I thought I wanted to move to Halifax but thanks to your video I will stay far far away!! 😂
Just kidding. 😊
Hahaha I appreciate the satire in return!
For me is it all bulshit
I love Nova Scotia. I met a lot of friendly people I am Photographer. By the way, I love hole Canada. That Country is in my heart
This was all satire and meant to be a joke. Nova Scotia is awesome
High taxes, its a 19 hour drive to the nearest decent major Canadian city, no jobs unless you want to take your college or university degree to Starbucks, your car rusts, stupid 2 year vehicle inspection, sales tax thru the roof, they cant design a ring road, other roads like spaghetti, highway exits are not numbered logically, zero oil field activity, the oil companies all left, you got to pay to cross a bridge, the wind there is nuts, fog like see no more then 60 feet somedays. Have not province, have no young people and I aint coming back. The best investment NS made was the road outta there. I remember the day I left, best choice ever
Glad your happy elsewhere. Sounds like a win-win.
You are such a Smart dude! Calling up everybody's attention to talk totally the opposite
Atlantic maritmers should seek independence from Canada
Hahaha don't know about that.
Friends of mine back in the seventies claimed to be members of the CBSeparationist Army. Blowing up the causeway was part of the plan. With beer bottles or something being thrown from the shore lines. Har har har😅of course. Back then you could joke. They’ve taken all the funny out these days.
We should all separate each province. We are taxed to death. Enough already.
@@susanyeadon6657 Their leader was Captain John Cabot Trail. :P
But seriously, we SHOULD seek independence. We don't need to trade; we have ALL we need without any other place in the world. Food, fuel, arable land, salt ... everything humans need to live successfully.
#6 … if you don’t like to eat delicious seafood or drink fine wine and good beer stay home
Hahaha love it! Need you on payroll!
@@thegregpierce I’ll be in Darmouth next week
@@enzoonorati8524 My favourite place!
The beaches are muddy! We got stuck many times...and the ticks, zillions of ticks, Freemasons and Shriners...no thanks.
@@albertafarmer8638 Stuck in the beaches??
@@thegregpierce Yes, stuck in the mud.
@albertafarmer8638 lived here my whole life and that's a first! 😂 I'll have to check out and compare the Alberta beaches 😏
@@thegregpierce OK. We stayed in the south west and he only nice beach we saw was in the south near Yarmouth but that was full of garbage.
Only five reasons? I expected way more.
Didn't want the video too long 😏
@@thegregpierce fair enough, I agree
Sounds perdy nice there ! Byeeeeeeeeeeeee !😂when dinner tyme is launch ! Aye .
Like whoots the hitch and where ya too?
I like this place already
@@iyiolashefiu You should!
The title isn't a big draw.
you call those red flags ....... too funny those are the exact reasons why i want to go there !!! if you don't like friendly people then the place to go is British Columbia but if you do like friendly people don;t go to BC extremely hard to make freinds there
Yes I was just playing around, they're all great qualities!
@@thegregpierce lollll ahh i see
Come play on our Island... the Bras D'Or Lake (Arm of Gold) is the largest salt water lake in the world. If you love lobster and water sports... come on to Cape Breton and have some fun!
That sounds like a blast! I love me some Cape Breton!
what the hell man, none of these are red flags, I just wanted more not to avoid
That was the joke! It's a great place!
I live in Nova Scotia.
Awesome! What part?
I lived here all my life and there are much places worse.
Yes I was just joking around, proving a point that it's awesome!
Off the top of my head I can give about 27 more lol
This was a joke though. These are 5 actual reasons to love Nova Scotia.
Only a natural born Nova Scotian resident understands. Outsiders…. you will never understand.
@@marymomourquette2593 what do you mean by this?
That's video is funny. Almost a joke. Well done bro
Appreciate you! Glad you saw the humour!
Actually I would avoid, especially if from UK they say ' you are taking our jobs' lovely scenes and ocean, but they follow the USA liberal scene!!!!!! Canadian universities, kinda like a British second rate college standard! All Canadian resturants will try to give you a larger bill, than you food the actually eat!!!!!!!!!! ( At every and I mean every resturant ) More like a little wildwest USA place now, long gone are the white pickett fences it had years ago, now just pickup trucks and long grass in the front yard- stoned!!!!! Thats why you find a few Nova scotians in England, Toronto or Calgary!
Sorry you feel that way but not sure I understand where you're coming from.
😂😂😂 well done sir 👏
@@NSfarmlife Thank you!!
Well, then I should move to Nova Scotia.
It's been decided.
I get nova scotia pnp nominee i will come soon
Please do!
A very effective use of click bait. I think i will just have to see Nova Scotia.
Trailer park boys took me here
Hahaha love it!
@@thegregpierce the weather in nova scotia look surprisingly better than i expected, most episodes of trailer park boys there is clear skies
@Craig_whyte I love that Trailer Park Boys is your reference point. Yes our summers are beautiful, Fall is incredible, our spring is somewhat nonexistant, and our winters are much milder than any parts of the country.
@@thegregpierce it’s made me want to visit NS, didn’t realise your flag was so alike a Scottish Saltire. Your weather is also better than Scotlands 🤣
@Craig_whyte Yes Nova Scotia actually translates to "New Scotland"
This is all fake I live in nova scotia and all of this is fake it is way better than all the others
This was satire. I love Nova Scotia just having fun with it.
this is quite funny
Thank You!
Nova scotia is weird and bad, high tax , bad roads, high rents, no jobs opportunity, no doctors, expensive grocery, no trains no trams ,less airport connectivity to connect other part of world,, all over its shit place province to live in Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you so much for your ray of positivity! Hope you find happiness wherever you land.
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@@hypatiastanhope4716 🍻
you almost got me
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Nothing bad about these 5 at all😋😋
Nope! Just having a little fun with it! 😄
Medical system bad . Wait hours
@@GregoryBoyce-w3i Don't disagree. Somethings gotta change.
Too expensive, Crippling health care, low living wage, Crappy weather
Having grown up there and then travelled widely, I can add some real ones.
- Food: Have you noticed that Nova Scotia has as high an obesity rate as almost anywhere? And it's getting worse! It's not weakness of character. Healthy food exists (barely) in Halifax if you know where to look (challenge for you: try to buy cream. Go ahead, I'll wait), but impossible outside the city, unless you spend many hours hunting down farmers' markets. *Everything* is highly processed, full of added sweeteners, preservatives, stabilisers. Consequently, most Nova Scotians can't help but get fat.
- Noise pollution: There are few pollution regulations, and noise pollution is especially tolerated. Halifax has numerous purposefully-enloudened cars and motorcycles. The more iconic areas are inundated by Harley pollution all summer. And as the world urgently tries to decarbonise, Nova Scotians just keep buying more and more motoryachts and jetskis, destroying the serene beauty of our formerly world-class harbours and hurricane holes and beaches.
- No transportation: You *need* a car. If you're too young, have a disability, can't afford a car, or simply don't like driving, tough. No wonder we have such a severe problem with drunk driving! Biking is dangerous everywhere, and there is a mandatory bike helmet law, which further reduces the number of cyclists, cripples our attempts at bikeshares, and adds to our strong culture of victim-blaming.
- Medical care: Waits are ridiculously long, so practically, there isn't any! This is largely due to the utter failure to invest in public health policies such as active transportation and regulating Canada's strong ultra-processed-food mafia. Our medical system is being utterly crushed under the weight of a government obsessed with maximising corporate profits, with little interest in preventative medicine.
- Pubs? Seriously? Nova Scotia does not have good beer. While the highly protectionist trade policy has jumpstarted numerous microbreweries (nearly 1 per 10,000 people!), it has also allowed them to compete only with other breweries in Nova Scotia, and never have to acknowledge the world of beer. Consequently, you CANNOT buy good beers here. At all. Even Unibroue--probably Canada's only world-class brewery, available and prized all over the world!--is not available in Nova Scotia. For an objective standard rather than my personal taste, I refer you to RateBeer and BeerAdvocate.
- Similar story for coffee. Don't even get me started.
There are reasons to love it, but let's be real: the world is urgently fighting to move forward, but Nova Scotia retains and defends many of the worst of North America's 20th-century mistakes.
I appreciate your input but disagree whole heartedly! I certainly understand Nova Scotia isn't for everyone (just like any other place in the world). I think it's easy to focus on negatives during a time where everything is expensive and life in generally has become increasingly challenging for western society.
@@thegregpierce Disagree with... what? The bulk of what I posted was easily verifiable facts. Disagreeing with facts would make you incorrect! (: About all I can figure is that you disagree with how judgemental I am about them? Since you're wholehearted in your disagreement, absent specifics, I am forced to assume that you think that easy access to healthy food is pointless, there's nothing wrong with an obesity epidemic, pollution is to be celebrated, people without cars are irrelevant, and there's nothing wrong with inferior beer and coffee. I guess you've got me on the last one--I'm a foodie, excited about the latest developments in those flavours, but you don't have to be!
@@fugue137 You do know that rage and bitterness is bad for your health, right? Here, have a beer. Oh, I forgot, your beer "standards" are so high. LMAO
@@jennifermarlow. Rage and bitterness? I'm pointing out ways in which Canada is inferior to many other countries. If that fills you with rage and bitterness, don't let it eat you--rage and bitterness can be great fuel for making the system better for everyone, if you use it wisely. But living with problematic systems because you don't like hearing bad things about bad systems is... unhelpful.
If you like warm weather all year around, Nova Scotia is NO.
I must have met the wrong people
How so?
All of these are reasons to come lol
@kaguilera3391 Yes, yes they are!
Lmao what is this list😂
@@B4thisiateoreos Sarcasm 😁
@ makes sense haha:)
There is only one reason to avoid Nova Scotia. You!
🤣 Thanks for stopping by!
Hahaha
nah
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Let me guess, you live in Nova Scotia, loaded, and have something to sell me.
Yes I live in NS, no I am not loaded, and definitely not trying to sell you anything.
@@thegregpierceyou are a real estate agent LOL... have the decency to admit that at least.
@@fedorbutochnikow5312 You misunderstood. I'm not trying to sell YOU anything.
@@thegregpierce Oh please, don't play dumb. By 'me' I didn't mean to me specifically, I don't know you, but to anyone who watches these cheesy videos about how amazing Nova Scotia is from the perspective of a realtor who wants to sell sell sell and nothing but sell. Much like car vehicle sales men, realtors aren't exactly respected.
@fedorbutochnikow5312 I do sell houses, and to further clarify again. I mean you don't seem like a kind person that I'd enjoy working with, so no I have no interest in selling YOU a home in Nova Scotia. Thank you for all the engagement and helping my algorithm. Have a great day.
Portapique!
@@active6302 Terribly insensitive comment. #novascotiastrong
@@thegregpierce What is insensitive is that not one person has been disciplined or fired for this! There is NO law and order in NS. The incompetents are still in charge, no change and it will happen again.
Traffic traffic traffic
if u dont like ppl avoid it
Five reasons to come to NOVA SCOTIA.
Exactly! I wouldn't be a very good Realtor if I was telling everyone to truly stay away!
Lowest hrs rate in Canada.cie don't pay enough.your$ doesn't go very far.high cost,rent food.not a sport city.not a food city. Away from main city.windy.hurricane watch every season.bad bad drivers.pot holes.infrastuctures bad.crimes rates raising.navy town.only shows picturesque cost line,nice.no rest for high cost in this place.shit hole.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I can tell you're just the type of person we love having in Nova Scotia!
Those five reasons are very stupid. What a waste of time.
Thanks for your input and helping my algorithm!