Welcome, from Maryland. Nova Scotia is such a beautiful place and I actually contemplated moving there but realized that short winter days would really get me down since I'm prone to S.A.D. Otherwise, I LOVED it-the people, the scenery, the architecture, everything.
Funny story: The last time I visited Nova Scotia was about 10 years ago. I drove through Maine, stayed in Bar Harbor and drove around through New Brunswick, where several people who saw my license plate asked us where Maryland was. Right next to Washington DC, about 1000 miles away I told them. Very early one morning I took the ferry from St. John to Digby. I started talking to some people who were on a golf trip and had been diverted from their plans to take the CAT ferry from Maine to Yarmouth because of a September hurricane making its way up the coast. Their bus made the trip to St. John instead. It turns out the man I was talking to grew up in the very tiny town of Keedysville Maryland (population 463) in the house 6 doors down from where I was living at the time. His last name is an old family name in the area and I had met his brother. Talk about one of those small world stories.
Last fall I was watching a TV movie and thinking the pretty houses in it reminded me of those in NS. Darn if during the credits, it didn't say the show was filmed in Wolfeville, where I had stayed at a B & B.
I have seen people post on here who live in NS, usually during the winter when those of us much further south are expressing concerns about the well being of our chilly chicks.
Welcome! I'm from Truro, NS, but I have lived in Pennsylvania for the last ten years. I visit my friends and family back home 2 or 3 times a year. It's nice to see fellow Canadians and especially Bluenosers on BYC.