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I’ve lived in a lot of places, in Canada and abroad. By FAR the Maritimes is populated with the most small minded, petty, closet-racist, closet-homophobic, Indigenous-hating, we’ve-done-it-like-this-for-decades-and-our-unwillingness-to-change-will-be-our-ultimate-demise, downright-NIMBY assholes I’ve ever met. You can’t afford NOT to have a carbon tax, morons. Those wind turbines? You don’t hate them because they look bad, you hate them because your uncle’s cousin once worked at a coal mine before it got shut down and you’re blaming the green energy for him losing his job. Immigrants? You don’t hate them because they take away jobs, you fuckers refuse to do ANY of the thankless minimum-wage, night-shift, greasy, dirty, dangerous jobs immigrants get stuck doing. No, you hate immigrants because they COME FROM AWAY and anybody who comes from away must be a lower class of person than a proud fucking Nova Scotian! What exactly are you proud of? The high cancer rates? The high poverty rates? The fact you have to send most workers to other provinces for jobs because Nova Scotia has exactly zero prospects for young people? Oh right, that’s stopped too now, eh? What a joke. And before you say ‘well what are you doing here if you hate it?’ I can tell you. Cheap real estate. —I’m Glad I Come From Away, It Means I Don’t Have East Coast Syndrome
This article appears in Oct 6-12, 2016.
Oh, good. Another fucktard from Toronto comes here to tell us what we’re doing wrong. Problem is, you’re no better, Sport. You came to Canada’s hood so you could capitalize on on some cheap real estate and a different life than you had elsewhere, then you stereotype everyone here to make yourself feel better. How original!
While I’m sure these problems exist to a much MUCH lesser degree than this loser makes it sound, I’ve lived all over Canada and can assure you that no province is without it’s advantages/disadvantages.
I’ve lived here over 15 years and have never met anyone like OP describes. Nova Scoita rocks! Maybe get better friends? Maybe go fuck yourself.
Sadly if you spend enough time in rural NS you’ll encounter exactly what OP describes. I’ve even had to deal with the rural people blaming those of us that live in the city for “taking” all of the provincial resources. Thankful I live in the big bad city.
Wow, that’s one heaping helping of pure bitterness & bile.
So move already.
Big surprise, non-liberals that live in small closed communities are racists, what a phenomenon! I bet it’s not like that in any small community anywhere else in the world.
@Rubyjaye If you think rural NS is bad try rural Manitoba, or better yet, Alberta! In Alberta you can’t even vote Liberal without getting shit on, forget about being an immigrant/native. Of course this is a bit of a generalization, there are decent people there too, but rural Albertans consider themselves the Texas of Canada and are self-proclaimed ‘rednecks’ who attach fake testicles to their ford F-350’s. These are the people you hear talking about ‘original Canadians’ (see: Donald Trump ‘make america great again’ slogan) Nearly everything this toolbox of an OP says about Nova Scotia can be said about Alberta and amplified x 10.
Dey turk er jerbs!
What a load of hooey! Who comes up with this crap? I’ve lived in a lot of places across the country and visited plenty more. An abundance of narrow-minded people is NOT exclusive to Nova Scotia. And how does such a diatribe against narrow-minded people not make the author one too?
It’s not Nova Scotia it’s the mentality that has been spawned here, at least in HRM. Too many bellyachers in this small ass town. Too many people who think their shit don’t stink and can do whatever they like. No one has any respect for anyone else and think they are better than everyone else. It’s amazing how ignorant I was to just how fucked up this town we call a city is until I started working for it. So that is why so many are ignorant. You have to work for this town for at least 5-10 years before you really know what kind of crap really goes on here. HRMers are the most juvenile, self entitled, whining, sniveling, cry babies I have ever had the displeasure of encountering. Go to Haiti and see how good you have it and stop murmuring and complaining.
THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!!
And no a carbon tax is not the answer, despite the fact that the idea of a scientific consensus that “man made” climate change is largely a myth. A government (especially one run by an idiot surrounded by the same corrupt jack-offs we voted out 10 years ago) saying the answer to the problem is give us more of your money means they have no clue. Climate change is simply another way to usher in more wealth redistribution to people who because of BS white guilt idiots like our spineless leaders believe we owe something to.
The carbon tax is another in a long line of schemes separating people from their money.
I propose, instead, a Junk Tax.
Any crap that is produced in a carbon spewing unregulated shit show factory in China/India/Russian Hinterland is taxed Y amount of dollars, Walmart et al can pay this and pass it on to the suckers who buy their crap week after week. That’s where the REAL problem is, you fucks.
go home troll…you’re drunk …again
Hey, Cranky, under your proposed ‘Junk Tax’, East Coast Lifestyles (produced in Honduras) would go out of business.
Good? East Coast Lifestyle has to be the biggest douche-laden clothing choice since Hollister and Fubu. Get your own ugly shirt silkscreened at the mall.
sansdessein: “No one has any respect for anyone else and think they are better than everyone else”.
And you’re “shit don’t stink”, “juvenile, self entitled, whining, sniveling, cry babies” comments are the best example of that…
OP, “East Coast Syndrome” may be an accurate label for it. I find that left leaning Nova Scotians that end up in Alberta become good conservatives. And, right wing Albertans that end up in Nova Scotia become good lefties/liberals.
What you are wrong about is the amount of blame that you are assigning to the people instead of the region.
OP, clearly you have no idea how much a local economy or lack of a local economy influences a person’s overall belief system.
And now that Stephen Harper has officially quit politics, he’s taken on trolling…
Ayn Rand?
You have to wonder who the real sucker is, though. Those of us who live here because we like the province ~or~ those of us who live here and hate it. It’s a big country and you’re free to move around. Cheap real estate is a pretty lousy excuse for many reasons. Two that come to mind pretty quickly:
1. There are plenty of places in other provinces with real estate as ‘cheap’ or even more ‘cheap’ than Nova Scotia. Likely hundreds of communities.
2. If you are that cheap that you are going to live somewhere that makes you miserable because you think you’re saving money then god help ya, you’re an idiot. Nobody here will miss you.
As far as actual cities go, Halifax comes in at 25.
http://www.moneysense.ca/spend/real-estate…
But then you have rich assed americans buying coastline up here because of how cheap a secluded piece of paradise is.
My shit stinks as much as anyone else’s, and how much it stinks depends on what I eat and that goes for everyone. No I just have eyes and can see and do not have my head in the sand like you. Just sayin’.
I’m a very proud CFA and will never be a maritimer, but that’s totally fine. It’s fun being a disruption.
True, the locals aren’t that aware of the outside world, and they act like it’s the 80’s; but as other posters have mentioned it’s a small town thing that you can probably find anywhere in small town Canada.
Canadians really don’t know how good they have it. That is the one thing we all have in common.
“I’ve lived in a lot of places, in Canada and abroad. By FAR the Maritimes is populated with the most small minded, petty, closet-racist, closet-homophobic, Indigenous-hating, we’ve-done-it-like-this-for-decades-and-our-unwillingness-to-change-will-be-our-ultimate-demise, downright-NIMBY assholes I’ve ever met. “
Clearly you have never been to Saskatchewan, friend. Or Quebec. Or Manitoba. Or rural anywhere.
Oh, you seem to think that immigrants in Nova Scotia do dirty, dangerous jobs because we refuse to.
Actually, immigrants in the Atlantic provinces make MORE money than the average income for immigrants nationally, have HIGHER rates of employment than immigrants in Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal, and are MORE likely to be employed in the profession they trained for. Immigrants here do better than they do in most of the country.
So how does that play into your silly Maritimes cliche-spewing?
Fake bitch, trolling
” You can’t afford NOT to have a carbon tax, morons. “
We ALREADY (effectively) DO, moron. The federal government wants to add a second one. Our power rates already got jacked up to support renewable energy development
“No, you hate immigrants because they COME FROM AWAY”
Er, most don’t. Some backwoods hicks do. Ignore them.
“The fact you have to send most workers to other provinces for jobs because Nova Scotia has exactly zero prospects for young people?”
Hey now, young people are our number one export!
Immigrants aren’t the problem, it is refugees that are foisted upon us without proper screening and no infrastructure to support them.
So lets debunk the myths. First…wind power. The carbon footprint of the wind turbine is humongous. From the concrete to the steel and everything in between, those giant towers are huge carbon consumption. the amount of energy they produce pales in comparison over their life time to what it costs to create even one of them. lets not even talk about the maintenance requirements. second. Carbon taxing. do a little research in the carbon tax world. started by a guy who was ejected from the UN environmental council. he ran and hid in china. that’s where the carbon tax started…in a country that pollutes in the top 3 of all countries. they loved the idea. they could pollute and pay a “fee” to continue polluting. Lets take Ontario for example…they conserved so well, that the Ontario Power wasn’t making enough money..so they raised their rates on the province. NOW they are pushing for carbon taxing. its the consumer that pays for it. the government collects it and claims its revenue neutral. its not. revenue neutral means if you raise one tax, you lower something else. you are being told LIES and being made to feel guilty by people capitalizing on that guilt. do your little parts, they add up, but don’t believe this bullshit that they keep spouting at you.
This post is absolute bullshit. The racism and homophobia in this province is not closeted.
Aww man, I thought we were nice!
We just moved to NB three years ago from Vancouver. For the most part we like it people seem friendly and nice, but we have noticed a lot of differences. Many locals are small-minded, don’t like outsiders (because we’re from Vancouver we’re considered an outsider), they’re laid back to the point of being ambivalent about many things. The world will be falling apart around them, but they’ll be more upset because their bowling alley is closed one day. What outrages them is really odd things and things that should upset them, they don’t care about. They hate change, but on the other side of their mouth complain that they need more here. They find culture weird, We’ve noticed more and more, we don’t fit in here. So we are planning to leave.