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.

Comments

[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. =:-)