Hard Truths About Living in Nova Scotia 

Housing inflation is accross the world,homelessness in the US is even worst.Cost of living and groceries had gone up across the world as well.The question now is,how is the government helping its people and how are the basic needs given to people? Coming from Asia ang lived in the Middle East,I can tell you straight in the eye,Canada is not bad at all compared to where I had lived.

@@QuestCanada I was commenting specifically on Nova Scotia not Canada or the world as a whole. Undoubtedly of course there are far worse places to live than Canada. Always has been and there always will be. Canada like the rest of the world is experiencing difficulties but Nova Scotia particularly has really taken a beating. My dad lives in Newfoundland and I have plenty of friends in Alberta and neither place has experienced anything close to what we're going through. The cost of housing has gone up 200% or more easily as well as food. Wages have virtually stayed the same. I grew up here. People have always been known to struggle in the maritimes so everything going on is a major deal. People no longer have hope of owning a home or ever paying theirs off and retiring. Mobile homes are now the cost of a nice family home 3-4 years ago It's insane. Living in Canada theres a certain expectation of quality of life you cant just cut that in half basically over night and assume its not that bad because its worse somewhere else. It used to be strange to see 1-2 homeless people traveling into the city on occasion. Now there are literally hundreds of them everywhere. Tent cities with people living outside and freezing to death all winter. A lot of these people have full time jobs and can't find an apartment that's affordable.

We immigrated from Germany to Nova Scotia about 12 years ago. We really liked in in the beginning but it has gradually become worse over the years. Still, like you say, it really doesn't matter it seems to be the same propaganda, taxed to the max,.. but most people are happy with it and don't want anything changed.

i will :)

housing is alao a problem here in NB and across Canada …

@@QuestCanadanova Scotia has the worst housing in Canada

we bought a house when we immigrated from china. the seller bought the house in 2019 for 260000 cad but sold to us for 515000 in 2021. we are lucky to wire out money from china to buy a house here. I know that lots of canadians born in canada can not afford to buy a house. trudeau and liberals should be hold accountable for this

remove gatekeepers and stop introducing the massive immigrants who can bid up the price

medical shortage crisis is also from trudeau and liberals and ndp. massive immigrants and massive drug addicts aggravate the problem and gatekeeps inhibit the foreign immigrant doctors from practicing medicals

Nova Scotians need you!

where in Canada best to work as an RN..tnx

"Heck that is like in the "States some places?

Thank you!!!

"I probably would be bored as heck there?"

then dont live there .Canada has got many provinces

Many people are coming home from the west and Ontario to resettle in Nova Scotia, population is now highest ever!

unfortunately yea

Somebody told me a true story of him going to the hospital. He had a aching tooth and waited there for 6 hours or so.. he could feel his cheek getting bigger and bigger and pulsating. The called the wife and asked her if she has antibiotics at home.. yes she did so he went home, pulled the tooth out by himself and everything was fine. Absolutely unbelievable but if you listen to the propaganda we are doing extremely well and thats ok. We have so much surplus money we should give more money to other countries.

EU is about 3 times more comfortable and cheaper to live in compared to Canada. Of course, the center of Paris will be expensive, because twice as many people live there as in the entire province of Nova Scotia. But any French city with a population of 200-300 thousand will be three times cheaper than Halifax.

Most employment salaries in Toronto do not meet the cost of living. Many Canadians who work in Toronto are forced to commute 1 to 2 hours and more, away from their Toronto jobs to be able to afford housing and living expenses. People are trying to leave Toronto, people are trying to leave Ontario for a better life in the Maritimes.

there are no jobs in NB

That was the first thing I noticed when I started looking at houses out there. All electric baseboard heating. A ton more expensive to operate than a forced air furnace.

Don't generalize 3rd world country fam. In my country we don't burn wood etc tropics we live in

No offence..... I was born in Africa, saw wealthy and poor and lots in between. I just feel since Canada is considered one of the wealthy nations, people should not have to resort to burning wood for heat...for a BBQ, yes, but not to keep warm.

@@rvhtravels none taken. I'm from Jamaica that's true enu what your talking about but it's a mean of survival and living within your means even tho I understand their plight they just have to push on once we have life there's hope

@@rvhtravels I live in rural Ontario and if you don't want to freeze your butt off, many use wood as a secondary or now primary heat source. All electric heating is too expensive. Also costs of conventional heating with propane and oil is now gone way up too since the pandemic. So many use wood heating to offset the costs of fossil fuel heating. Sad, cause Canada is an oil and natural gas producing nation and could be self suffcient. This industry is/has been stifled by Justin Trudeau. My BBQ runs on propane : )

I got my Canadian citizenship a while back. As a newcomer, I landed in Toronto and had been living in Ontario for almost a decade. I recently came NS (not Halifax) for work. Everyone back home in Ontario told me people in Atlantic Canada are nice and generous. While I have met some amazing folks, my overall experience has been rather bitter. Yes, the landscape is beautiful but I've experienced countless instances of micro-aggressions and even downright overt racism. I have heard such stories from older immigrants but this is the first time I'm experiencing this. My experience in smaller Ontario towns has been way better than this. But maybe, I am the exception😢

@@Moonstruck89 I am sorry that you have a bitter experience living in Nova Scotia. Everything you are saying confirms what I witnessed as a child. Thank God all of the old men who would throw around the N word in the 80s & 90s have passed, but it is sad to me that it only has slightly improved. For Nova Scotians; it is all about employment. If they are working and Newcomers come in and it does not affect their employment-- they will be more welcoming. However, if it is the case where Newcomers are provided with a pathway to work or take their jobs --- there will be racism and tension -- even though it is not the Newcomer's fault. Halifax has always had people from the around the world. It is an International shipping port; and I believe that more ships from other Countries dock in Halifax than any other Canadian port. Toronto is a different world. I see Newcomers in Government or Bureaucratic positions which you would not see in most places around the world I am sorry for your experience once again. I know when people from other Countries think of Canada they think of Toronto; and then they end up in either Eastern/Atlantic or Western Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan, etc.) and come across a Canada they were not expecting that is closer to the US

Halifax would be the exception, even going back to the 1970s the Lebanese immigrants at that time made a good life for themselves in Halifax, and made the Donair a cultural icon

@@ytzpilot I absolutely agree with you 1000%. (I graduated from the old Halifax West long time ago; and my Family lives there now. I live in Toronto. )

@@alexandercampbell7903 yes I left Halifax too for Wellington, New Zealand, I used to live in North Halifax then later Colby Village, I met a girl from New Zealand in Halifax on the waterfront and she brought me back to New Zealand as a souvenir 🤣 I do consider Halifax and Wellington similar, both port cities with crap weather but rich in arts and culture, few differences Wellington goes back to 1860 and Halifax goes back to 1600s so Halifax History is far more representative of its character. Lifestyle is similar though.

There is no housing

Nova Scotia needs you!

Sad to say doctors and nurses are in high demand. Most people wait 3 years for a family doctor of their own. Most hospitals have an emergency department, but many are closed most of the time... the Queen's General in Liverpool for example is now only open in the morning during the week. So you can only have an emergency then....and they may still not see you and tell you to come back the next day. So if you are a doctor expect to be asked to do overtime and have grumpy tired patients.

​@@donnaleach8119Where would you place them if there is no housing?

​@@rvhtravelsIt's also a matter of licensure for international doctors and nurses. If it takes 2-3 years to get accreditations to meet local board requirements, it's going to be a huge problem because those professionals have to live and work somewhere while waiting for all this time.

No it's not

Maybe at one time, certainly not anymore

I disagree Michael Absolutely wrong u are

No it isn't it's one of the most expensive!You clearly don't live here or never have been here!

@@natural4lifemiss i agree absolutely its insanely expensive place Even 80k yearly is not good in Halifax

Population in Canada is deteriorating,if not for immigrants Canadas population will keep on depleting and so will the economy.Immigrants deserve better recognition that what youre saying that we are “taxing every aspect of Canadian life”.

​@@QuestCanadaWe need immigration but corporations take advantage of immigrants. Also we don't need immigrants to come here and work fast food. Kids here can't get a job because there are none for them. We need skilled immigrants doing skilled work.

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I'm on the same boat 😂 January intake

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Every city,province and country has its pros and cons.

The politicians seem to like keeping Nova Scotia in a constant state of Third World employment with First World cost of living.

Stay in lahore forever Canada is beyond yoyr reach

Don’t

dont have such problem? You have to do your research my friend

I have done loads of researches about the living condition comparison between USA and Canada and China. If possible you are welcome to come to China to have a try. The low living cost and all kinds of conviences will impress you deeply my friend

It’s true, I was in Dalian last 2014, it’s so nice😊

@@jeffreymacasero251 there is no property tax in China. apart from some fist tier cities the living cost in most of China is lower than their counterpart of Canada. Lots of chinese people can earn more money than Canadians do. the pollution in China is a problem. as for democracy Canada is detoriating because of trudeau and liberals

@@jeffreymacasero251 the chinese government is more efficient than Canada counterpart lots of services from government are for free but in Canada you need to pay

Talking negative about a place and talking about reality are 2 different things.

@@QuestCanada ok thats reality. But shouldnt u like encourage people to come. I saw in another you tube video someone talk positive about brunswick.

@@jennifermarlow. thank u . I know not only in Canada but many countries around the world is going true a lot. Here in Trinidad it is also hard but at the end of the day people make it by the grace of god. Thank u again for the truth.

NSP is a good job as far as money.I work with them sometimes in my job. Idk exactly annual salary but be warned everyone will hate you 😆😆 no one likes Nova Scotia power they steal peoples money and I do mean rob like they miscalculated meters and made people pay $500 EXTRA sometimes higher on their power bills since then no one trusts them, thieves. So if you did work for them it’s nothing to brag about around here 😂😂

@@Dimplez271 no i didn't work for them ,, all i wanted to know is salary of BSA position , but i came to know its around 50k to 70k annually in Halifax I wanted to know whether with this amount can you purchase a brand new MUSTANG CAR, and a house in Halifax with taking loans in 3 years ??