Seriously… I left you nearly two years ago for the better opportunities of the west and it seems EVERYBODY is following suit. How did I ever think I’d return? Did I naively, blindly, or drunkenly flitter my way through my undergraduate years without fully appreciating you? Because for as much as I’ve been thinking about you lately you seem damn certain to keep me from coming back. I wish you would get yourself together Atlantic Canada and quit forcing your skilled youth out. Because I tell you, I’d give just about anything for those days back. I make so much more money here, I live in a nicer place, I can afford better food, heck even the dating scene is better. And I’d give it all up again just to dip my feet in an ice cold ocean, rip my new jeans sliding down Sackville street in winter, see my favourite venders at the market, wait for a late bus in the never-ending rain, eat lunch on the hill, make eye contact with somebody on the street and NOT think they must be crazy, walk the mudflats, walk ANYWHERE instead of driving, or just hear a fiddle or a bagpipe again. But I’m likely to get stuck out here, just like everybody else you couldn’t support. And my children won’t grow up in the culture of their ancestors, but in the more profitable and amalgamated society that is the rest of Canada, and they won’t know you. This is where I lose my heritage… —Want to go home
This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2014.
I was mildy amused by your post until I hit the written speed bump “culture of their ancestors” is this from the Hobbit?
Hello Home,
If opportunity were greater in Nova Scotia, it would attract more self-serving people. It would become like the less desirable places to live. The real reason people are nicer here is that they have to hang together, depend on each other at times.
The truth is that you treasure wealth over the things you mentioned, that is why you are where you are. And there you will stay, until you change. It’s not really about location, it’s about you.
Keep on bragging, asshat.
Stop yearning for Canada’s floppy dong…
ain’t nothing here but misery and sorrow.
Heritage isn’t sacred, it’s overrated, outdated, and now affiliated with hatred.
Is it really worth coming back for ‘hills’… and ‘SEEMINGLY (yet not) un-crazy people’?
(double negatives FTW)
Uh, No. No it’s not.
Case in point… I bet you have a Denny’s.
Local Sports teams that aren’t teenagers (or in made up ‘pro’ leagues)
cheaper… everything…
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Go Buddha!
The latest report shows 46,000 job losses in Canada, I’m betting we figure prominently in the losses. Come back Darrell, we miss you – NOT
Op, if you can’t be happy in the land of opportunity, you might be even more miserable in this shithole.
Buddha, I enjoy most of your posts but this time I believe you’re confusing personal wealth with quality of life. The Ob seems to worry more about their quality of life then all the extra toys they can buy.
I’m a Halifax man stuck in Ontario. I love the East Coast and relate very well to this Bitch, however mine and my families quality of life now far exceeds what we had in Halifax. Thats not a complaint but simple reality.
“The real reason people are nicer here is that they have to hang together, depend on each other at times.”
I’ve heard that in every province/territory I’ve lived in or visited.
Kind of oxymoronic that someone named Buddha can be so judgemental about someone seeking a better life.
Though you shouldn’t expect much more from a conceited hippy that names themselves after a god.
So, you sold out your community, friends, family and a life you wish you could have had for some easy money. You could have stayed here, worked hard, been patient and ended up in the same place. Admit it, you picked the low hanging fruit and it doesn’t seem to be sitting well. Just goes to show you that the easiest way isn’t always the most satisfying way.
Enjoy your dirty oil money and, go frack yourself!
“The truth is that you treasure wealth over the things you mentioned”
The truth is, you don’t understand people want to have a comfortable life with less stress. There’s more to life than being able to meet up with all your friends at the same pub you went to in university.
“Enjoy your dirty oil money and, go frack yourself!”
Enjoy being poor, and please turn down any services paid for by equalization payments. And don’t use cars.
Buddha: there’s a difference between actually having a job that pays the bills and not having a job that pays the bills and treasuring wealth over the things OB mentioned.
It’s hard as fuck to get a job that pays the bills here. Especially new university graduates.
Wanting to be financially secure is nothing to be ashamed of. And for a lot of people in the maritimes, that isn’t possible without leaving.
Those among us who do have jobs that pay a decent wage around these parts are lucky as hell.
Fuck Alberta!!! I’d rather eat out of a dumpster in Pugwash than live in that frozen-ass shithole. It’s like living on the sun in the summer and like living inside a glacier in the winter, not a drop of moisture in the air and, no ocean to look at. Why on earth would anyone want to live like that?
Buddha works at an “upscale shop” on Spring Garden, enough said?
I do miss the ocean, but the huge mountains, lakes, forests, etc. are certainly nice to explore. Shitty winters with lots of snow, but in the summer it’s nice to not have rain for two weeks straight.