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Originally Posted by someone123
I am curious about how much the reputation of NS and its self image are changing.
When I lived there it had a rural reputation and apparent self image. Often the issues of the day would focus on small towns around the province, sometimes to an absurd degree, and people seemed allergic to admitting that the central part of the province is focal in any way. I also got the impression a lot of people in NS viewed the city not as its own entity but in terms of how it served the rural areas (as a place to shop, a place for centralized services, etc., not a place with its own economic base). Often there would be implicit reasoning that something in Halifax was for but one part of NS.
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This is still certainly the case for many, but I do think it's changing. Then again, I'm in the Halifax bubble, so my perspective is skewed.
One thing these density maps of the province show for me is that even though a lot of people see the province as "rural," the large majority of people live in or near just a few areas. Of course these areas are still rural in nature, but not the way a lot of people think. i.e., this is not a province of people scattered hither and thither among among tiny coastal villages and farms. Half of us live in one metro area, and most of the rest live in a handful of population clusters focused on large-ish (relative to NS) towns. Most of which also have traditional town centres.
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