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Originally Posted by someone123
Nova Scotia did mergers for Halifax and Sydney but as far as the geographical area goes there is only maybe a 40% overlap between the HRM boundaries and the actual metro area. A lot of what's in the municipality isn't in the commutershed and then some parts that are in the commutershed aren't in the municipality. Then there are lots of murky areas that were rural at one point but where more and more people commute to urban jobs.
In the Maritimes there's no clear-cut rule you can use to draw a boundary in most cases because it's small town after small town with houses along the rural roads.
The western boundary of HRM (and the Halifax economic region according to Statistics Canada) looks like this:
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I was thinking of Halifax when I wrote my post... I remember driving a long way out of Halifax into solidly rural territory and I was surprised to see HRM garbage bins on driveways.
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