The number of Americans visiting the Annapolis valley in Nova Scotia could remain the same, but their reasons for revealing the trip move.
Some inns in the province, such as the Tattingstone Inn in Wolfville, NS, say that their American customers is impatient to see what Canadian life has to offer.
“Since January, February, people who go, when we have conversations with them, they are looking for a residence,” said Erika Banting, who is the owner of Tattingstone and also president of Anns of Nova Scotia.
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“So they take interviews. A particular guest, she is a nurse and seeks to move to Canada. ”
Banting says that their visitors are concerned about the management in which the United States under President Donald Trump is heading.
“A number of them, they do not feel safe according to the field, in particular health care with the health of women in danger, as well as their rights,” she said.
“They are threatened, their families are threatened so that they want to move to a place where they feel safe.”
The local real estate broker Allen Chase says that moving to the valley has become an attractive option. And according to his colleague, real estate agent Jeff Pettigrew, sales have increased by 26%, some of which can be attributed to the American interest.
“During the summer months, they inevitably stop and start asking questions, especially last summer before the American elections when there was a little uncertainty about what they were going to expect,” said Pettigrew.
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