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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
And St. John's also benefits from history and isolation. The nearest city our size or larger, Halifax, is a 1,500 km drive away. It's no harder to get to anywhere else in the world than to our nearest neighbour. Everything we need to supply at least 350,000 of Newfoundland's people has to be in our region.
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I was actually also going to mention isolation for both places too as compared to Eastern Canadian cities, Western Canadian centres are also very isolated, though not to the extent St. John's is.