Go to New Brunswick

[Sharon]

What a province! Just got back from a vacation /wedding there . The amount of wooded acres, hills, mountains and wetland is unbelievable...similar to Northern ON but different. Very few pines, mostly spruce and aspen. Never saw so much aspen.(We were an hour outside of Fredricton.)

Seemed like everyone hunted. 140 N.B. relatives of the groom were there who all hunted. At the day after the wedding barbecue , out comes the targets/rifles/ trap machine/ clays/ shot guns. No hamburgers - moose burgers.
Got to do some grouse hunting too.... they got many of us a hunting "day pass" ??? Rules seemed much more relaxed there. When you go through security there is a separate line for those carrying guns , antlers etc. Never saw such a thing before.
It's a 2 1/2 hour flight from Toronto . Highly recommend it.

[greatwhite]

Thats my home. If you don't hunt then someone you know does. Will be going home for Xmas to visit the Old man and Lady and the kids can see their grand parents. OI grew up in Fredericton and Quispamsis. Use to canoe in Doaktown. Still remember digging clams in Blacks harbour about 2 hrs from Fredericton.

45 minutes outside of the city you can still buy land and a house for under 75K.

[CptSydor]

Thats my home. If you don't hunt then someone you know does. Will be going home for Xmas to visit the Old man and Lady and the kids can see their grand parents. OI grew up in Fredericton and Quispamsis. Use to canoe in Doaktown. Still remember digging clams in Blacks harbour about 2 hrs from Fredericton.

45 minutes outside of the city you can still buy land and a house for under 75K.

In the process of plotting a move to NS/NB. Heading out at the end of the month to decide where we want to live/look at places. My partner grew up in Truro and I spent 4 years at school in Halifax. We love it out there, but more importantly, we can easily get the lifestyle we want, which means working more for us, less for other people. A house in the country, 25+ acres backing on to nothing but forest. Great fishing and hunting, opportunities to have gardens/property and live a simpler life. We are lucky to both be able to work via internet connection only, so we can choose to live anywhere that's available, meaning a non fixer upper is 100K, less if I decide I want to work a little less and renovate. We will slowly start reducing work hours and traveling more, especially in the winter, spending time in the southwest hiking and biking out of our travel trailer.

I think we found the place went want, just hard as we can't really move out there until the spring. We might have to buy it in the meantime.

Edit: As soon as I move out, I'll be acquiring myself a bird dog as well

[yellow dog]

Halifax area housing prices have gone up considerably. I was offered a position six years ago and turned the offer down because of the housing cost. I have family that moved to the Mineville area Nova Scotia and they are considering moving back to Ontario because its getting too expensive. Also the weather sucks.

[greatwhite]

You have to look outside of the city and it's surrounding area. Just like I live outside of Ottawa.

Halifax area housing prices have gone up considerably. I was offered a position six years ago and turned the offer down because of the housing cost. I have family that moved to the Mineville area Nova Scotia and they are considering moving back to Ontario because its getting too expensive. Also the weather sucks.

[Sharon]

I was in Woodstock N.B. Housing prices were surprisingly low. Not big homes like here in London but simple homes ( many prefabs) that would do the job fine. If I was younger............

I was told 17 feet of snow is their average there , so if you don't like winter .........

trees of the Acadian Forest:

http://novascotia.ca/natr/forestry/t...an_Forest2.pdf

[MikePal]

During my military career I lived from coast to coast, and Eastern Canada was always the best place to go to feel at home. The people were always much more friendly and the lifestyles much more in tune with my priorities in life.

Housing used to be really good in the Annapolis Valley and a lot of military guys retired back there because they could live comfortably on their pensions. But as noted, the prices there began to rise in the 90's and it's no longer a 'cheap' place to live.

GW is right, there are still lots of places outside the larger centres in NB where housing is affordable. But if your were raised in the burbs of some city in Ontario, your family may find it a hard cultural shock moving to the east coast.....like Dorthy said "we're not in Kanasa anymore "

[greatwhite]

Just a few samples that I looked up in less then 1 minute.

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetail...rtyId=14525946

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetail...rtyId=14453775

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetail...rtyId=14934194

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetail...rtyId=14659942

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetail...rtyId=14525946

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetail...rtyId=14377545

[CptSydor]

Don't forget this place. Might suit the interests of folks around here.

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetail...rtyId=14713203

I've been extensively researching my move for 4-6 months now. Virtually everywhere is Canada has seen the extensive growth in the past 20 years and in comparison, property is still that much cheaper out east. Certainly Halifax is not cheap, but considering it's the major city in the maritimes, in comparison to other major geographic centers (Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver) it's cheap. Don't get me wrong, it's not Sarnia, but then again, nothing really compares to Sarnia .

You just don't have the population base and urban density in the Martimes that drives people to gobble up the rural property, leaving options widely available. This is assuming you can be away from any sort of major urban center. And certainly employment opportunities outside of the major urban centers are very limited in terms of high paying careers.

[Hunter John]

I am in the wrong province.