[metalman]

Lots of americans and others, show up here in Nova Scotia (and other places) and try and settle down, many are what I call "lifestyle refugees", and are often well off but traumatised by something or the other, but as the merry pranksters say, "wherever you go, there you are", then there are the "helpers" who are bringing some sort of idea that nobody is unaware of, another category is the wealthy , self centered, city type moving to a rural area and inevitibly trying to claim a shared right of way, or "common land" as there own, and loosing there fluffy minds when they are told that they cant even sue somebody, happens like clockwork. Luckily there are also a good number of people who move for love, or true oportunity, or just to be in a quieter place, and they do just fine, and plenty of multigenerational dual citizenship familys, who move back and forth

[Schlagbohrer]

Canadians have told me Nova Scotia has had population decline over the past generation. Are there vacant homes and disused land there?

[metalman]

huge amounts of vacant land and homes in rural areas, and by rural this means zero services, perhaps not even electricity or cell, which will be true for more than 75% of Canada. if there are power poles then there is still a lot of empty houses and land, but they will be again more than 45min drive from the most basic services, and there may be no internet or cell service due to topography and demographics, starlink is changing this quickly ,and imigration is causing a general population explosion along with a development boom in the city(singular), and big towns.

[rchaud]

I don't know about a population decline, but it's well known that its real estate is almost as expensive as it in major population centres. It's also very hard to find a family physician taking new patients.