Nova Scotia - 5 Reasons to STAY AWAY! 

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. 😂😂😂

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

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 😂

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.

@@jgc7928 hahah thank you! I really appreciate it.

I appreciate that! And glad you finally came to your senses and planted roots in NS! 😏

Please do!

You are very welcome my friend!

@@colin7761 hahah you are on to me!

Thank you!

So glad to hear it! It's an amazing place

Plenty more where that came from! 🤣

Well I hope you get to experience this special place!

You should!

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.

Thank you, I really appreciate that! 🙏

Such a good comment 🤣

@@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.

That's very cool! From West Coast America to East Coast Canada!

Sounds like you're overdue for a return!

Thank you!

Thanks... I guess? Why the thumbs down?

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!

@ShawnWhite-o3h As mentioned in the video it fluctuates depending on population changes and opening and closing of restaurants, pubs, bars, etc.

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

Absolutely was just having some fun with it!

Exactly 😉

Thanks for your feedback!

The poorest province.

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.

🤣 I think that's most rural places though.

You got it! It's a classic 👌

Please come join in on the fun!

Thank you I appreciate that!

Thank you so much!

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.

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

Hahaha 100%!

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.

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

Please do!

Like whoots the hitch and where ya too?

@@marymomourquette2593 what do you mean by this?

This was satire. I love Nova Scotia just having fun with it.

Hahaha love it! Need you on payroll!

@@thegregpierce I’ll be in Darmouth next week

@@enzoonorati8524 My favourite place!

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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Thank You!

Hope it didn't disappoint! Lol

@@thegregpierce loved it ;)

Hahaha I appreciate the satire in return!

@@NSfarmlife Thank you!!

That was the joke! It's a great place!

That sounds like a blast! I love me some Cape Breton!

This was all satire and meant to be a joke. Nova Scotia is awesome

Yes I was just joking around, proving a point that it's awesome!

Didn't want the video too long 😏

@@thegregpierce fair enough, I agree

Yes I was just playing around, they're all great qualities!

@@thegregpierce lollll ahh i see

This was a joke though. These are 5 actual reasons to love Nova Scotia.

It's been decided.

Sorry you feel that way but not sure I understand where you're coming from.

Please do!

Appreciate you! Glad you saw the humour!

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"

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Of course not!

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Absolutely not! It's a great place

Nope! Just having a little fun with it! 😄

How so?

@@GregoryBoyce-w3i Don't disagree. Somethings gotta change.

@@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.

🤣 Thanks for stopping by!

Exactly! I wouldn't be a very good Realtor if I was telling everyone to truly stay away!

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.

Thank you so much for your feedback. I can tell you're just the type of person we love having in Nova Scotia!

Thanks for your input and helping my algorithm!