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Eva Herman with Andreas Popp
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Even in paradise it can get “damn cold”, says a German businessman who has lived in Nova Scotia for more than 20 years.
In winter, temperatures would keep falling below minus 25 degrees Celsius.
The argument, often used by realtors, that the province on the east coast of Canada lies on the latitude of southern France, only wrested a weary smile from local people like him.
Nova Scotia is a paradise especially for people who are not afraid of the cold and who love life in the open air, who hunt moose or bears and who want to fish large quantities of fish.
The part of the province that has become a hotspot for German emigrants and real estate speculators in recent years, the island of Cape Breton in the far north, is considered particularly natural.
For some time, according to one businessman, "German citizens with brown ideas" have settled in Cape Breton.
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