I really shouldn't have done that

[inulro]

Get bored enough to look online for real estate in Nova Scotia. I found this, which is not only rather cute, it's cheap enough to buy outright with the profit we could get from selling this place.

Now I just have to sort out at least one job in rural Nova Scotia. This place is really in the middle of nowhere.

I could probably get a job in Halifax, but the cost of living is probably sufficiently higher there that we'd need two jobs. However, last time I checked I don't have any rural job skills, not that there are any jobs up there anyway. I don't think Selling Shit on the Internet is going to cut it, even if the house does have home office facilities.

You should see what I could buy in Newfoundland with the money under the cushions of the sofa. But I really do draw the line at Newfoundland. I'm not that desperate to be mortgage-free.

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[inulro.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, it's nearly impossible to buy a house in the Maritimes without extensive property. I'm not so keen on this (unless we end up so poor we have to turn to subsistence farming) but Jason thinks it's a Good Thing.

The job situation is the problem. I could move to even the most depressed area of the UK and find work because I'd not be competing with people with equal qualifications, experience and motivation (especially because it's easier to re-locate within the UK, so all the motivated people have already left), but that's just not true in Atlantic Canada, especially the Halifax area.

OTOH, the Maritimes are cheap enough that we would only *need* one job. I wonder how much you can make selling jams and preserves to tourists.

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think selling jams to tourists is one area where you probably _would_ have a lot of competition.

I recall homemade stuff for sale everywhere - damn yummy it all was too.

As Axel said, there are a lot of call centres out there, but you'd have to be OK with doing that kind of work. Considering that I just spent two years in that kind of environment, I can't hear the words "call centre" without shuddering convulsively.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I recall homemade stuff for sale everywhere - damn yummy it all was too.

That'll be because there's nothing else to do.

I also cannot contemplate call centres without shuddering convulsively. I'm one of the few people who didn't have to work in one on first moving to Bristol, but that was because I was old and had lots of other work experience when I got here.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I recall homemade stuff for sale everywhere

Sounds just like the gypsies of eastern europe. I couldn't imagine such a rural existence for myself, much as I'm drawn to the idea. (Says he, currently watching Treats From The Edwardian Country House).

[inulro.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, I'd probably go nuts if we moved to such a rural environment. OTOH, for all that I take advantage of the faciliites the urban world has to offer any more, including seeing friends, maybe I should be out in the woods without the expense of living in the city.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Would there not be a whole load of stuff to keep you busy in that sort of an environment? Not to mention books. I don't know - I'm not sure what I want out of life and I have no real experience so I can't even say if it would drive me mad. Especially as I used to consider myself a fairly solitary and non-social sort, but I now think that's wrong.

At a guess I'd say that I think you'd miss charity shops and coffee houses. =:-)