Nova Scotians look here!

[Vinca]

My husband (Canadian American) and I are considering moving back to Canada. His family was from Cape Breton island, but we prefer to stay further south and don't want to live in Halifax. Does anyone have a town or area they can recommend and tell us about?

[Hand]

1. Bridgewater's nice...

That whole South Shore/Lunenberg County area is quite beautiful, but you'd want to move fairly quickly, since the Germans and Texans seem to have "discovered" it and land prices are going up pretty quickly.

The St. Margaret's Bay area is lovely, also, and within an easy drive of Halifax if you need to do some city biz.

That's south of Halifax on the eastern shore. Did you have a particular area other than not the Cape and not Halifax in mind?

On the western mainland, the area around Tatamagouche is quite pleasant. So's the Annapolis Valley.

Really, when you come down to it, other than the Sidney Tar Ponds, just about anywhere in Nova Scotia is a wonderful place to settle!



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[Vinca]

2. Thanks for the information.

We've been honing in on either the south shore (where it's the warmest) or over along the Bay of Fundy. My husband liked the idea of being near a university and wanted to check out the Wolfville/Kentville area. That's one town I don't recall ever being in. I know someone who lives about half the year in East Noel, not far from there, and they love it. My husband was planning a trip over in the next few weeks. We live in New Hampshire so it's a fast ride to Portland or Bar Harbor to catch the ferry.

[Hand]

4. The Wolfville area's a good choice...

Wolfville itself is a quite a pleasant town with a lot of beautiful old trees and houses, and the university provides a vigorous cultural life. That area has impressive tides similar to the Fundy. One rather neat thing is that eagles from Cape Breton winter over in that area in huge numbers; the poultry processors in Sheffield Mills feed them chicken carcasses, so they're flourishing.

I've got some pix of these critters in a webshots album here, BTW:

http://community.webshots.com/album/132996387JpmjaA

[Vinca]

5. Wow! Those are amazing pictures. I've never seen so many

eagles in one place! Thanks for posting them.

[Spazito]

3. Agree, as a displaced Nova Scotian

born but not raised there. I spent a week just driving around Nova Scotia rediscovering my roots and it is a magnificient province, imo.

It is not just the beautiful scenery such as the Cape Breton Highlands but the people are wonderful, warm, down-to-earth, welcoming.