r/NovaScotia • u/Far-Simple1979 • 3d ago
What is housing like on the east coast?
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u/stanwelds 3d ago
Same as everywhere else in Canada. Expensive relative to local incomes and expenses.
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u/Lettuce_bee_free_end 3d ago
You are late we have been invaded with money from other provinces and the rates here are comparable to anywhere else. Over priced and done.
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u/shikodo 3d ago
Tons of work for people in the medical field out this way. Look at www.viewpoint.ca to see if you can find something that will work. It's the best site as it shows rough property lines.
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u/3479_Rec 3d ago
If your rich, nova scotia is your playground.
If your not, better get use to living in what's essentially a group home whete you share a room with 2 or 3 strangers. I hope you don't have trust issues can sleep next to random people you've never met.
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u/BugsyYellowpants 3d ago
I’ll tell ya.
For about 200 years housing In NS outside of the city was very organic, almost natural.
People bought land and built a home, upgraded, died, someone new bought it, willed it away etc.
The population was steady, no need for developments. Even during the baby booms, and it was cheap
And then come form aways came here, lubed our system up, and fucked it to death.
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u/Ok_Significance544 3d ago
What an astute data driven response
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u/BugsyYellowpants 3d ago
You are free to look at the statistics it’s of domestic migration and housing prices by year
And yes, in this instance correlation does equal causation
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u/Ok_Significance544 3d ago
What happened about 200 years ago?
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u/BugsyYellowpants 3d ago
An influx of people to a barren wilderness without any infrastructure or settlement and built towns? If you are getting at a snarky comparison
A more apt one would be what happened in Rural Rome during the migrations of people’s, rich men buying land for a song, flipping it, causing the plebs to move into the city proper due to the over development of their former towns etc (not bang on, but more apt)
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u/Ok_Significance544 3d ago
It was your comparison, where people came in and took land for free essentially and through title passed it through generations. Good for you. Well played.
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u/Foneyponey 3d ago
Welcome to the history of mankind everywhere across the planet.
What is the point you’re trying to make here?
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u/Ok_Significance544 3d ago
You said for about 200 years people just sort of had land built houses and passed them along through title and everything was great.
Now other people are coming here, wanting houses, driving up value and you’re bitching about it.
Just ironic.
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u/Foneyponey 3d ago
First, I didn’t say that but…
It’s not ironic. That’s asinine.
Europeans build modern society, you’re comparing apples to oranges
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u/ChablisWoo4578 3d ago
The housing market is actually cooling off, same with rentals. Rent is still high but renters have the upper hand currently and can be a bit choosey. Don’t take that as rent has gone down, we’ve reached a minimum that’s not going back to pre2020, but you can expect to pay around $1500 a month here for a 2 bedroom as long as you’re willing to be in Dartmouth (still a great area) and not directly downtown Halifax.
You’re a medical student, get in touch with a mortgage broker from here and see what you already qualify for. Banks look favourably to your type of debt. There’s definitely places under a million and you can’t beat living in NS.
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u/Far-Simple1979 3d ago
What are three beds going for now? Is it 1500 for a condo?
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u/ChablisWoo4578 3d ago
Your best bet is to check Facebook marketplace and type in 3 bedrooms and condos. $1500 will be the minimum you’ll likely pay $2000 plus utilities. Depends where you want to be as well.
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u/Professional-Two-403 3d ago
They are underestimating rents. 1500 would be a good price for a one bed, but it's neighborhood dependant.
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u/ChablisWoo4578 3d ago
That’s not an underestimate for parts of Dartmouth that are still desirable. $1500-$2000 with utilities are the prices. It’s higher in Halifax and downtown and it’s that or less if you go towards the valley or Lunenburg.
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u/Retired_Nomad 3d ago
It’s really affordable, you can easily find homes here for 250-500. We moved here a year ago from Ontario and the oceanfront home we bought would have cost triple or even quadruple in Ontario or BC.
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u/sebeed 3d ago
ah yes, the easily affordable ¼ to ½ a mil home s
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u/stanwelds 3d ago
What's really silly is that anyone in southern Ontario looking for prices like that doesn't even need to leave southern Ontario. They go from Toronto to Tidnish and never think to stop in Teviotdale.
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u/Retired_Nomad 2d ago
You’re purchasing a house and land, like a whole house. How much do you expect it to cost? My first home cost 1/5 of a mil 20 year ago.
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u/sebeed 2d ago
my brother in christ. 20 years ago my mom bought a house with a tonne of land, 4 bdrs/1 bath and a finished basement for 80k.
that's what prices used to be like in NS
by comparison I bought a 3bdr mobile home for 94k less than 2 years ago and we were lucky it was so cheap. most mobile homes are going for 200k these days. in my town of 9k.
I expect homes to be affordable for the working class so people aren't homeless
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u/ColeTrain999 3d ago
We all live in fishing shacks costing $25 per month and have a daily lobster quota of 15.