I’m also moving home to Cape Breton, after my book tour, in December.
It’s a complicated set of feelings familiar to people from Atlantic Canada and rural areas in general. I never wanted to be one of the young ones who left forever. It’s a test, we’ll see. Never know unless you try.
Here is an interesting essay on PEI, Cape Breton and Newfoundland: “Folk Culture and the Myth of Return” (link)