So, we bought this 10 acre property in rural Nova Scotia with amazing soil quality and setting up a small scale organic farm. In the old days, they called this homesteading; establishing everything from scratch. Do you think that making cheese, extracting honey or digging the ground is hard? NOTHING compares to the pain what Nova Scotia public services will put you through: in the first round we have been denied power service unless we put in a new driveway; our garbage was left where we put it, simply ignored; the road (while public) isn’t maintained; our beloved mail delivery corporation refused to deliver our mail. Should I continue?
Rural Nova Scotia is in depression, businesses are struggling and you get this in your face. —Newby
This article appears in Apr 19-25, 2012.
lots of places in rural nova scotia don’t have garbage collection, and mail only goes so far.
My aunt has a drive a few km to get to her mail box.
good luck getting the road fixed. rural routes get paved like once every 30 years. If your lucky u will get it pactched in the spring, if ur super lucky they will rip that pavement up and you get a dirt road. You can patch the dirt roads yourself.
I love the country life, I grew up in it.
you should have done more research o.., while it sucks to off th beaten track,there are advantages to where you are. i know people in windsor, that still have no power. because they are over 1500 feet from main road, and they will put poles in, for a grand each. but charlysays fuck you. the mail is about three miles done the main road, and no one plows him out in winter. and you think you have it bad. it’s rustic living at it’s worst.
Who knew that starting a grow-op could be such a hassle. Hay, Fascist Government Pigs – stop harshing our mellow.
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Hmmmm, you must have thought “if I build it, they will come!” WRONG!
I own two properties – one is in Halifax and I have had to purchase two poles to have power to come to the house as I chose to build at the back of the property.
The second home is in NS yet requires one extra pole to reach the house from the main road.
Even though I do not live in the second home I am still required to maintain the lane to the property as my insurer requires this in the event a fire truck needs access. As for the mail? Delivery to the door does not happen in the winter unless the lane is cleared of snow. I pay for a caretaker to maintain the property so that the fuel delivery can access the property as well as other services. It actually costs me more to upkeep the second property than it does for the home in the city.
Neither of my properties are rural but the issues are the same. ~ Of course, I knew all this and then some at the outset and never regretted my investment.
HAHAHHAHAHA! WHAT A FUCKING DUMMY YOU ARE! HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHHAHHAHHAAHAHAHHAHA!
Yeah, you chose this life, stop complaining!
I lived in a small town in the valley and we didn’t get mail delivery to our house and we lived in the centre of town.
We had to get a PO box, and before one of those were available, we had our mail delivered to general delivery at the post office.
And you probably need a new driveway so the trucks can get in to maintain your power lines and set you up.
Sucks, but these are the breaks of living in the middle of buttfuck nowhere. Shoulda done your research beforehand, man.
Hey dude, you can afford to buy a farm, you ain’t gettin no pity here from me in my darkside 1 bdrm shitpit, but you must have been told upon buy this little project that there were no power lines, postal service, etc. take it up with your realtor, first world fuck. The rest of us are busy worrying about the price of a can of beans.
OB, do yourself a favor, don’t hook to the grid. THe way power rates are going setting yourself up as a 12/24v system will power everything you need.
At 1000 to 1500 dollars a pole is a huge help in offsetting that cost…start small a windmill & a couple of solar panels & add on.
Garbage is a bit tougher, I have garbage removal every 2nd week but I usually only take trash out once a month & I compost so I don’t even own one of those ugly/stinky organics bins.
You could always take your trash into town & drop it in a public trash bin every time you make a trip in.
IT also seems OB you at least have an address, when I bought my land it was part of a farm & so had no Provincial address it was covered under the farm board & getting an address was a chore, about a 2 year chore to get it all settled !
But if you want the beauty of country living, inconvenience is sometimes a part of it.
Aw, look at you cute little city people. The fact that you’re comparing your minor trials with your hobby farm to people who had to do this to actually survive is just fucking fantastic.
I’m the same PK i lived in coldbrook, right behind the elementary school, so plowing was actually always good and stuff but i had never heard of mail being delivered to the door before. Even being by the school our road got redone once in 18 years and it was a terrible chipseal job
The subdivision, Brandon?
Rural NS is great if you live in a town or a village or somewhere decently populated, but mail service is rarely door-to-door. Usually you have to hump yo’ ass to the post office to get yo’ mail.
OB: all you have to do is go to the nearest post office and sign up for general delivery. People then address your mail to general delivery at the post office you’re getting your shit delivered to and then they sort it under your name and you go pick it up. Like I said — before there was a PO box available when we moved to Buttfuck, we had to get Gen Delivery. And even after we still had to go down to the post office to check our mail. Just the breaks of living in the sticks.
Also, when I lived in a subdivision in Halifax when I was a little kid we had a community mail box where you had your individual mail box and you’d have to walk up to get it. I’ve never had door service mail in my life (maybe when I lived in the house I did when I was a baby/toddler, but other than that…).
WTF is mail?
I’ve got three and a half ocean-front acres in Little Liscomb. Anyone interested?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
MM I’d like to use my knee and give you 2 acres.
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: Victor Meldrew (4/24, 10:03PM)
Good morning Victor.
I take it you are using the term “acres” in a metaphorical or extended sense which, I must say, I found (very) mildly amusing. But your hostility puzzled me. Was it something to do with an unfortunate incident at Little Liscomb? Did it involve sheep?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
i used to live in hayes subdivision on poplar drive
Good one Monsieur!
Hey, me Bro lives on Poplar Drive In Coldbrook. Small world on the anonymous bitch boards.
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: troondon formosus (04/25, 9:17PM)
Yes it’s a small world Troon. Not sure about Coldbrook though. Would your Bro know of the Mailman family of Little Liscomb? We had Stanley’s old place and acreage on Liscomb Harbour as a summer vacation spot near the point on the Little Liscomb Road before it burned down. Haven’t been down that way in years. Still have the deed though at Robin Archibald’s law office in Sherbrooke. Must get down there again one of these days.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
That post was two separate thoughts Monsieur. I was congratulating you on your comeback versus Victor Meldrew although his first remark “two acres” was pretty funny too.
The second thought concerned Brandon Wilcox having lived in the subdivision in Coldbrook which is where my brother resides. Then I thought “small world on the anonymous bitch boards” after which I typed it in.
I doubt my brother knows anyone in Little Liscomb living in Coldbrook but, who knows, it is a small world after all.