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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
Virtually any community over 15-20,000 people has suburbs. Charlottetown has two decent sized suburban towns (Stratford & Cornwall)
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Maybe not. I mean yes nearby smaller towns, but whether or not they'd be considered a suburb ie "part of the town".
Of the top of my head, I wouldn't really say Brantford has any suburbs. Subdivisions at the edges of town yes, but I wouldn't really consider those to be "suburbs". The town of Paris is nearby but nobody considers it to be "part" of Brantford.
Same with Woodstock, it seems pretty standalone to me, Ingersoll is just the next town the road, not a "suburb" of Woodstock.
So I think that "threshold" is a little higher, at least in this part of the country with a relatively dense amount of towns and cities.
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Originally Posted by megadude
Speaking of counties, this is similar to a thread I started a couple of years ago where I asked if people say the live in such and such county as opposed to just saying the town or city they live in.
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I and a lot of people I know do that. I'm from Norfolk County. My address was Norwich, but that was 10 km away, I didn't live IN Norwich. And before that I lived in LaSalette, which is a road sign and a closed church. So not particularly useful for telling anyone other than pretty local people. A few other contributing factors are that there was also only one Catholic high school for the county so there were people from all the different towns. And after de-amalgamation with Haldimand, there are no more towns or townships, only the municipality of Norfolk. Some of the sports teams use it as well, as well as events like the Norfolk County Fair.
Of course, once you get past Brantford and Woodstock, still nobody knows where it is, and I have to revert back to "in the country south of Brantford"
Unless they know Dover due to Friday the 13tth.