Introduction

Our plan has long been that we would sell up in Alberta and move to Nova Scotia.  Why you might ask?

• We don't need to be in any specific location in order to continue working; thank goodness for the internet.
• We don't want to leave Canada at the moment; nice people, stable economy and good prospects.
• We do want to live by the ocean and get a boat.
• We do need to move to a cheaper property and be mortgage free so we can retire any time we want.

We looked at moving to the BC coast but living there is just as expensive as living in Alberta.  We couldn't find an ocean front property with some land that would work for us for less than $1M.  In Nova Scotia, equivalent properties in the area we want can be found for $300,000 or less.  We toured the east coast a couple of years ago, looking at New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia and basically fell in love with the Atlantic side of Nova Scotia.  More specifically, we liked the area south west of Halifax in the St. Margaret's Bay, Mahone Bay area.  This has the combination of sheltered bays with the wild Atlantic just beyond yet is reasonably close to a major airport in Halifax.  We still need to regularly go to both Calgary and England to visit relatives and friends.

Anyway, all this was just a pipe dream until we could sell our large acreage house near Bragg Creek.  The house had been on the market for a while and whilst there was some interest, we just didn't find the right buyer until now.  We happened to be travelling in England when the offer came in and we dealt with everything very efficiently by e-mail.  The deal became firm on May 18th and the buyers get possession on June 21st.  This doesn't leave us much time to pack up, sell all the stuff we don't need and find somewhere new to live.  Hence this blog.