There’s a few nova groups on Facebook where people post up ones for sale often, sometimes they’re up north/closer to you! What years are you looking at?
Honestly you could find one for 8g that would be in great shape. It depends what you want. If you are going to do suspension work and such just find a non ss and put the money in. Once you start finding ss or big block cars is when they get up there. Novas are the more affordable camaro and now they are getting more expensive