We present a preliminary comparison of the post-nova population with
that of general cataclysmic variables (CVs). We particularly focus on the
mass-transfer rate and its potential relation to the nova eruption. We find
that the known post-nova sample exclusively consists of high mass-transfer CVs,
but that this is more likely to be due to the shorter recurrent time for those
systems, rather than the mass-transfer rate being affected by the eruption.
Nevertheless, we find evidence for such an effect for specific post-novae,
and that it is potentially related to the binary separation and to presence
or absence of an accretion disc.