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WTF Allergies

Deckie007 said:
Hey my allergies are absolutely kicking my ass this year. I've tried a few different otc meds, Allegra, Claritin, Aerius. Not really getting a whole lot of relief. Anyone taking something that works for them or doing something different altogether? I also have two air cleaners, one by my desk and another beside my bed. I've been avoiding going outside because I end up kind of miserable but staying inside too much also makes me a different kind of miserable.
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I solved my seasonal allergies by leaving Upper Canada.

I'm less allergic to NS than ON. But NS is full so you're gonna have to find somewhere else. Hear Edmonton is less miserable, briefly, this time of year!
 
LeafGm said:
I know this suggestion will sound kind of woo woo new-agey and I can’t attest to it myself since I’m lucky enough to not have any allergies.

But my uncle and one of my cousins both have always had godawful seasonal allergies. And one thing they’ve started doing and swearing by the past few years is getting some locally-sourced honey and having a spoonful every day.

I guess the idea is that pollen & nectar from these local plants that are driving your allergies wild ends up in the honey, and having a spoonful of it every day acts like an immunization of sorts.

Sounds crazy and I guess it could possibly be the placebo effect, but both of them swear that their allergies aren’t nearly as bad as they used to be. And the only potential downside of the idea is eating a spoonful of delicious honey every day for no reason.
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I have heard this too.

Anecdotally, I source all my honey locally and have not had bad allergies in years. That also coincides with me not being in Ontario so hard to establish causation.
 
Wayward DP said:
I have heard this too.

Anecdotally, I source all my honey locally and have not had bad allergies in years. That also coincides with me not being in Ontario so hard to establish causation.
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Ontario rag weed along the highways destroys me. So brutal.
 
Wayward DP said:
I solved my seasonal allergies by leaving Upper Canada.

I'm less allergic to NS than ON. But NS is full so you're gonna have to find somewhere else. Hear Edmonton is less miserable, briefly, this time of year!
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I've been looking at property in NS. Still cheap depending where you wanna live.
 
and you all thought I was fucking around!

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Deckie007 said:
I've been looking at property in NS. Still cheap depending where you wanna live.
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I found a property right on the border. One house two addresses. You're in canada in the kitchen but USA in the garage.US address and a Canadian address.

I wonder if you need customs in your house 🤔

I should buy it
 
Habsy said:
What's a decent spread go for over there Wayward?

I mean land not hookers
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our friend bought a like 2-3 BR 'fixer upper' on the peninsula but not quite downtown and paid like $515,000? fully detached, rental unit in basement, shed in backyard.

land outside the city is getting snatched up and developed at a crazy rate though.

my boss lives about 30 minutes outside the city towards the valley and I wanna say his home has nearly doubled in value since they bought/built it? neighbour's place listed for over a million, but this is like 3,000 square foot homes on a lake within 30 mins of Halifax.

my friend bought a place on the Bay of Fundy (90+ mins from Hali) for a shade over $100k back pre-pandemic. sold it in 2020 for like $160? and it's likely closer to $200+ now. 2BR, on Fundy, less than 1,000 square feet.

check out viewpoint.ca - it has publicly available price listings for property all across the province.

HRM is becoming I think like Vancouver or Toronto though. that is mine and Ms. Wayward's fear...
 
Habsy said:
No offense my friend, Deckie is right, that's cheap.
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it's all relative though. we left Ontario in part because housing prices here were much cheaper. property values have increased like 200% in some places since the fucking pandemic alone.

Upper Canadian are routinely bidding six figures over asking (sometimes sight unseen) and forcing local out of the market. Good example - our neighbours moved here from Sudbury back in 2021. it took them the better part of a full year before they found a property that fit their parameters... friend's sibling sold his place in Toronto, then paid way over asking for a house out in Fall River here. for him, it was a steal, but there's now a Nova Scotian priced out of the market as a result.
 
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