Its not getting better - I'm from there, and visit once a year, the younger generation are totally onboard. Its a total ecosystem of victim mentality and "Please government, save us"
It also dosent help that all the boomers from Ontario move here and contribute nothing while destroying the housing market and taking up healthcare resources
they literally ruined my hometown - I can't afford to retire there anymore. When I left in 2010, the median house price for a real nice house was about 180K, its now 450K for the SAME HOUSE - I've checked historical data on houses, and its mind blowing
Yeah same for my home town in NB. I literally just flew back from my yearly visit and me and the wife would love to get a home there but with slim pickings for jobs and the post covid housing market its made it impossible. And we are a six figure earners in Alberta.
Thats our thoughts exactly. You basically need to have some kinds niche corporate job (highly competitive & they are all taken) or drive a semi truck or own some buissness that is already solidified.
I can't speak for NB but I live in PEI, wife works for the province and Im a red seal tradesman, both easily attainable and secure jobs. Our household income is around $180k gross which is pretty good for the maritimes.
I bought my home for $100 last year. This year, similar homes are going for $400k. It’s ridiculous
And then they have the audacity to try and change everything when they get hwre
ELI5 - you own a house, with a partner and children. You think smelling lavender is incredible, and you want other people to smell it. So you tell everyone in your house that anyone can burn a lavender candle any time they want.
One of your children doesn't like lavender, so they tell everyone else in the house that they don't want people burning a lavender candle in their room.
That's a really simplified relationship of feds to provinces. The Fed's own the house, and make the rules. But the feds allow the provinces to make their own rules (within reason). While the land is technically owned by the federal government, it's still in a province, and can further be downloaded to a municipality. Which can make their own laws, even if the province and feds says you can do the thing.
Yeah I don't have a problem with Liberal provinces like NS making (imo) bullshit rules because provincial rights all the way. We should have more of that, in fact - let the Prairies have NR AR-15s while Quebec bans double barrel assault shotguns.
That came in due to religious reasons, but they've since kept it to reduce stress on wild game as the Prairie WMUs get hunted hard compared to the forested areas.
Really ignorant here. But I bikepaced the length of NS last summer during the drought. And apparently the week before I got there you weren't even allowed in the woods due to possibility of a 4x4 sparking a wildfire. Is it a fire thing too?
Last summer it was so dry they banned you from going into the forest, on both crown land AND private land that you didn’t own. $25,000 fine PLUS taxes on the fine. I worked forestry and my boss lied to us about our permits and we ended up working ‘illegally’ for a week before we found out.
Ish... that's sketchy. Yeah it was really good timing as I stealth camped most the time so had I been there a week ealier it would of cost me a lot of hotels. Also having the provincial parks open was nice. Not important... but I went to one Caribou/Munroes Island Provincial Park, it was low season, show up late, only two staff there. They were legit the nicest people and I have thought about them once a month at least since. I get nostalgic just thinking about them. Wish I could remember their names to send their managers an email. All to say east coasters are great.
Atleast for NS sake there is public "ranges" you can book time at, but i hear it can be quite restrictive. In NL you can apply for a temporary sight-in permit on crown or you have to go to a range. No idea about NB/PEI
Yeah they are super picky. The closest one to me only has room for 1 person to shoot, and no semi auto firing is allowed. Theres a sign that says you have to wait however many seconds between follow up shots, super weird.
Those ranges are literally only for sighting in scopes, not leisure shooting.
Technically you can't discharge a firearm outside of hunting season in Nova Scotia anywhere other than an approved range, even on private land. In practice people do it all the time in the country
You can apply for a Nuisance Wildlife Operator license but if you live somewhere where you need varmint control you likely won't have neighbours who care
You can’t shoot a gun unless you are about to take a shot at an animal, only during hunting season. If you want to sight in or test a rifle you need to book a range. Even if you’re hunting with no luck and decide to plink some tin cans, that’s a CRIME.
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u/Uncle_Ted_1942 Jul 18 '26
In Nova Scotia it’s illegal to shoot on crown land and you can’t hunt on Sundays