Permanent Escape, hopeless?

[IwantOUT]

I would really like to leave Canada forever; to somewhere warm, rural,(hopefully english) and peaceful?

I have a home in Nova Scotia, of little value, and an income of enough to live on(and have been for years), ($500 mo), and I spend 6 months in the US every year(cheaper than paying for oil, etc. in Canada).

I have no interest in working only 'retiring'(see voluntary simplicity)... Any places/suggestions where and HOW one could migrate with a low income, and 1 year Cdn Community College? Belize sounded interesting initially, but their crime rate and malaria are not selling points.

Seems Australia, NZ, and those jewels are out because of minimum requirements. How I loved Australia...



Living is not the problem, only! legal permission.

[Reba]

Try Vancouver Island. It gets more sun than Nova Scotia.

[IwantOUT]

I have some feelers out now hoping to find a place cheap to purchase and check it out for the summer, though it does seem unlikely based on a quick scan of real estate values.

There are hundreds of homes in Atlantic Canada for < $25,000 or land for as little as $150 an acre(when purchased in parcels of 25-100 acres). Florida is very similar right now, with hundreds of homes for < $25k, land is more about $2000+ for 1/4 acre) to those who are interested.

The cheapest listing on mls.ca for Vancouver Island is: $27,000 for 1/4 acre. I attribute this to there being so little privately owned land out west; government 'claims it all' and only sells at great profit to select bidders. Identical situation in much of Australia. One of the most underpopulated countries in the world yet land prices are through the roof.

Gotta love it!

[agnelson]

You know how the lottery board runs those adds saying how great Atlantic canada compared to everywhere else "where a million really means something".

Well, the same is true for $25K.


I suspect you wouldn't even want to move to PEI for the same reason.

[IwantOUT]

Yeah, the Atlantic coast was populated by offerings of free land. Consequently there is less 'government land' there than most anywhere in the world. PEI($150 acre) included(tho not Newfoundland).

Sadly Atlantic Canada is also one of the most polluted areas thanks to local industry AND from all over North America. google 'Tail pipe of north america'.

If I could sell my home in Nova Scotia and buy 'anything' on Vancouver Island for the same price, I would just to give a new place a try<I've never been to Vancouver Island, but I have no doubt it's a better place to live(climate mostly, ocean doesn't freeze to pack ice etc).

Anyone have a legal freehold shack/mobile in the woods with 1/8 to 1/2 acres in SW BC they want to trade for 30 acres in Cape Breton? I would seriously make that trade.

Maybe I should start playing the lotto... Where a million dollars buys your way out!

[Tanya Crane]

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[IwantOUT]

Just lovely, freezing cold weather, large mosquitoes and blackflies, some of the highest taxes, 100% markup on basic food/fuel(wheat/dairy/poultry boards), CRTC, bureaucracy, and overpriced health care.

[Reba]

have you tried the healthcare in the US? Talk about overpriced