As a Cape Bretoner living out west, your videos remind me of home... thank you

Look forward to more videos.

Oh and I've been to pugwash Canada day plenty of times great times

nice perspective on things, moving out in 3 years from BC. Visiting for a few weeks next month, will be going to Pugwash

@LifeinNovaScotia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and I hope your moving plans work out well.

That is so cool! Nothing like that in Ontario. Probably some hindi thing tho

I don't know who the guy was playing the guitar but to his right was George Canyon world famous for Nova Scotia and across Canada go George

@LifeinNovaScotia

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, George was a nice guy and originally from Pictou County.

@davidroberts9148

Жыл бұрын

@@LifeinNovaScotia Nathan Rogers (son of Stan Rogers) was making the ba, ba, ba noises and Dave Gunning was behind George Canyon in the flat brimmed hat.

Hi in your real-life experience, what would a salary of $76k look like in real terms? Google tells me average salary is 30k so I would assume 76k is quite comfortable? Thanks for the videos!

@LifeinNovaScotia

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Hi, it depends on your living situation. If you’re single and living in a small apartment then $76k should be comfortable to live on. I have a family of five and I earn more than $76k and needed to find a second job to get by. So it’s all relative to your living arrangements.

@pyrrhical3423

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@@LifeinNovaScotia Hi, thank you for the reply. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Well the potential job is in the shipyard in Halifax, and would be a salary to support two (my partner and I), potentially a family. I take it that 76k would not afford much then? Looking at housing, within an hours drive from Halifax looks like several nice houses with small parcels of land that we could afford with a mortgage? (150k cad deposit on a 350k property?). Are there many nuanced costs or taxes that have surprised you at all? Just currently trying to delve into the realities before dragging my partner round the world in pursuit of greener pastures. Currently in sw England, but quality and CoL is quickly getting out of hand, with no real forecast of betterment! I’m sure NS has similar economic pressures/difficulties but I was really hoping the promise of what looked to be a high salary would enable us to live a better lifestyle than we will here in the uk. Apologies for the essay. Cheers

@LifeinNovaScotia

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@@pyrrhical3423 Hey! With a $200k mortgage and current interest rates, you're probably only looking at 25% of your take-home pay going towards the house. This is better than the average home owners scenario as I understand things here. Being only two of you dependant on that salary makes it more affordable too. Hopefully it is just a starting wage with room to grow over the years. It's definitely doable, but I wouldn't call it a highly desirable standard of living. Coming from the UK, depending on the property you purchase, you're going to have a lot of upfront costs from snow blowers, lawn mowers, even a 32' ladder cost me $480 and a wheel barrow $150ish. I found my salary much higher here than in the UK but it didn't translate to a much higher standard of living because the Canadian dollar doesn't go nearly as far as the British pound. But... I wouldn't ever want to return to the UK because Canada is a much better country to live in overall. I hope that helps!

@pyrrhical3423

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@@LifeinNovaScotia wow thank you very much for your response, it’s greatly appreciated. The wage as I understand it can be bolstered with overtime and shift work where available so in a pinch I can put the hours in. It seems very difficult to find a reliable metric against which I can compare salaries in NS.. there looks to be a much greater variance of pay than in England, where in most parts a £40k salary will afford at least a basic lifestyle. Thankfully the job offer is also to relocate my possessions, and I don’t have to start over which is a massive saving. I have a couple more questions if possible: Are there any parts of the island that are rough or considered undesirable because of crime/drugs/poverty etc? Also I’ve read plenty about the very long wait times for a family doctor, but what is the situation with emergency treatment? Is there an equivalent A&E or any walk in practices? Finally, a bit more of a political question.. there’s a lot of reporting on Trudeau leading Canada down dire straits, placing crippling pressure on the working class etc etc, is there any truth in the reporting or is it the same sensationalism as everywhere else

@LifeinNovaScotia

Жыл бұрын

@@pyrrhical3423 Relocation expenses being paid for is great, sounds like a no brainer! If your work is in Halifax then it's the best location in terms of medical care and one of the best cities in Canada for crime/drugs/poverty levels, although I think everywhere is slowly trending downwards. A&E wait times where I am (on the north shore) are upwards of 10-13 hours. A friend of mine sat in an emergency room for 13 hours and in that time only two people left the A&E, a man with a severe bleeding wound and an elderly person who died before they could get treatment. It's bad in areas of the province for access to medical services, but Halifax is apparently much better. As for Trudeau, the provinces have a fair bit of autonomy from the federal government and I have my opinions on what the Feds have done to Canada but at the end of the day the Provincial governments have much more power than county councils in the UK.