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   From: amheater@BYE.SAILORcogeco.ca   
      
   "Susan"  wrote in message   
      
   It sure hasn't been dry in June in Ottawa this year. The weather   
   forecaster said that we'd had one day with no rain out of 23 on   
   Monday. There's still more rain (thundershowers, mostly) in the   
   forecast for the rest of this week - and then we're into July.   
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   Yes and I am getting so fed up with all the rain down here on the Lake too.   
   Two months and we're back into fall .. has been a terrible spring ... and   
   whole month of June.  Just hang a wash out, then have to rush to get it back   
   in, half dry.   
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   On the bonus side, I haven't had to run my air conditioner much.   
    It's been too cool for that.   
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   Never use one ... I like the heat!!  The hotter, the better for me!   
      
   Oh why did my ancestors come north?  I'd have been very happy to be born on   
   St. Maarten, in The Caymans (my cousin was smart ... she married a guy who   
   is from there .. so now they live there year 'round! ) or Barbados ....   
   someplace similar  ... but no ... our lot thought "Canada" sounded better.   
   [Thankfully it wasn't one of "the other two".]  Majority didn't get free   
   and/or cheap land, so that wasn't why they came here.  Those two lots were   
   hired for specific jobs in Bedford NS  in 1855 & 1887 and stayed!   
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   If I sold my condo in Ottawa, I could buy a house free and clear in   
   St. John, NB, but prices in Halifax aren't much lower than Ottawa.   
   Rasta's area might have lower prices - he's a bit outside town limits.   
   I was surprised to see how little difference there was - friends keep   
   telling me that real estate in NS and NB is a bargain.   
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   We were down home just a couple of weeks ago ... Bedford / Lower Sackville.   
   We were looking for another piece of land or 'somewhere' to put our trailer,   
   so were checking out real estate mags/booklets etc, also at the properties   
   shown on TV.  We noticed house / land prices had risen by a significant   
   amount.  Some are quite shocking!  The house my aunt and uncle bought just   
   3y ago for $164,000. is now worth approx. (so they were told by an agent)   
   $230,000.  It's located just off the Old Sackville Road, near the Beaverbank   
   Rd.  Last year we got 10 times more than what we paid for our property near   
   Little Harbour (Eastern shore, near Ship Harbour - 200 ft on Little Harbour   
   & 200 ft with sandy beach on the Clam Harbour side).  Bought 18 years ago.   
   There are some bargins, but you sure have to look for them, but well away   
   from the Metro area ... at least from what we could see.   
      
   wrcn   
      
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