It really grinds my gears to hear all those ex-east-coasters complaining from their high horses about how screwed Nova Scotia is. Yeah, yeah you love the people and the landscape but if you’re not willing to stay here and make it work then that’s all pointless blabbering. We don’t need you anyways because all you’re going to do is complain about how much more money you were making in Alberta. If money is that important to you, then go back to ruining the environment. Oh wait, you’re still doing that cause you’re surely driving a gas guzzling, over-sized pick-up truck. —Fly Out And Don’t Come Back!
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2015.
“Oh wait, you’re still doing that cause you’re surely driving a gas guzzling, over-sized pick-up truck.”
Thankfully you didn’t try to paint everyone with one broad brushstroke. It’s not always about money but finding a way to work in the field someone is trained in. I would move too if I had too, but I’m fortunate enough at least at the moment to not have to leave.
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A perfectly reasonable goal… just stop complaining; or move.
Excellent bitch!
If one needs to move to find work in Alberta or elsewhere then so be it – and it’s a reasonable and honourable thing to do. But then to get on a soap box and start slagging Halifax or Nova Scotia makes one look very petty and like they have a mouth full of sour grapes. Not so good!
Well now you can throw it in their face with the drop in oil prices. Alberta (and Canada) has screwed themselves. They had the golden ticket, and handed it over to make some companies richer, all because “companies with more money will make more jobs!”. They will suck as much of our natural resources out of the ground as they can while its profitable. When its not so much? bye bye, no jobs for you.
Alberta should have a pretty little nest egg for times like these. And they don’t.
AN EXPATRIATE’S VIEWPOINT
“Yeah, yeah you love the people and the landscape but if your not willing to stay here and make it work then that’s all pointless blabbering.”
Why do so many people leave Nova Scotia? While for most it’s a just matter of economics it’s still an interesting question. Why did I leave Nova Scotia? It wasn’t for money. I think it was because I was a Europhile romantic.
A family trip to England – I am first-generation English – when I was a young teenager opened my eyes to an English-speaking foreign country yet with a history extending back more than a thousand years. I was swept away. At the time Nova Scotia seemed raw and unfinished. My infatuation extended later to Europe in general when I lived in Rome and Barcelona. However, living in Europe gradually cooled my ardour. I walked to work each day passing by the Roman Forum without a glance. But I still could not return to Halifax. I would feel smothered.
Time has passed of course, but I still have a great nostalgia for Nova Scotia in general and Halifax in particular. In many ways, it’s still home since I spent my first twenty-five years there. I return fairly often but realize I don’t now belong there. But I don’t belong in Montreal either. (Je ne suis pas un Montrealais.) I am an expatriate.
So I just thought I’d give another take on those who didn’t stay in Nova Scotia. But maybe I’m just blabbering.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Maybe we’re sick of being told that we’re the problem when Nova Scotia unquestionably has a problem getting young people and just ambitious people in general to stay here.
The way we see it, people like you are on their high horses, refusing to admit that your beloved Nova Scotia has some issues that it needs to address in order for people to stay here, instead blaming us for wanting better than what is available to us here.
And for the love of pete. There is a whole world outside of Alberta. I’m not going to Alberta, but I gotta go somewhere if I can’t make a decent living and future for myself here.
Careful what you wish for, OP. Somebody’s gotta feed you your meals and wipe your ass when you’re wasting away in a nursing home. Not to mention run the government and the economy.
OP
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So well put I wish I could say that you’re taking the words right out of my mouth had I not just said that right now.
It seems if you have a problem with the way Nova Scotia does things, your told to move… Maybe this attitude needs to change
I’m not leaving, though I probably should have, but I still think this place is screwed.
Gonna need to start ‘shining out in the woods pretty soon.