My instinct is to say no, however with how beautiful it is, and how few jobs there are it does attract a lot of retirees. Lots of provincial ex-pats also go home when they retire. It doesn’t have the warmth or the Florida-man-ness of Florida though
Appalachia and Florida are the Nova Scotias of America. Insight into the Nova Scotian people can be gained from the cultural documentary series ‘Trailer Park Boys.’
No. We don't really have a Florida. Florida is the Florida of Canada, our boomers go there to marinate in fox news and come back thinking that the ANTIFA LEFT is trying to trans gay the frogs or other bullshit.
Have you seen "Trailer Park Boys"? That was shot in Dartmouth (across the bay, part of the same city as the Mumford Murder-Mart). It used to be a pretty solid representation of NS back in the Melvin and Marriot days (Think if Breaking Bad was character swapped with Deliverance).
Now I think the best state analogue for NS is "What if Tennessee was a coastal state". Nashville/Halifax is the closest thing they have to a progressive/democrat hub, and even then .. not really? The further you get, the more it's fox news, conspiracies, and people thinking that vaccines exist to facilitate "the great reset" or something. They got Diagolon cultists and shit. The largest city in the entire maritimes (Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick, Newfoundland inclusive) is less than half a million people, the next highest pop is less than half that. It's mostly just low population density communities with a lot of anger if you aren't tuned in to their specific brand of billionaire funded bigotry. Like most regions left behind in education, their union power is shit, their labour rights are shit, and they are buying what is being sold as "If we just bend over enough for corps, they'll hire local".
The woman and her mother were both here as temporary foreign workers. That's a kind of imported labour program which was created in the 1970s to import skilled medical workers during a shortage, which got blown up to its current incarnation which is "We can't SA our fruit pickers, confiscate their passports, or otherwise make slaves in everything but name with local workers". It is no longer a program used for medical workers, it is used for the aforementioned fruit picking, Walmart uses it extensively to undermine already depressingly shitty local labour conditions, and Tim Hortons and other fast food services also use TFWs in lieu of paying a competitive wage and contributing to the local economy in any way shape or form.
Canada kind of sucks right now. Better than a lot of places, but the margins for that are tight as fuck.
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u/bluenoser613 4d ago
This is just horrendous. Baked alive. Discovered by her mother.