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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim
I met a young chap last month who just moved from Halifax to Montreal to start his music career. When I asked him how he felt about Montreal the first thing he told me was how excited he was to leave the "small town" he lived in and move to a "huge city". I guess he hasn't been to Jakarta or Mumbai yet. I guess it's all about perspective in the end.
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I understand what you mean but in Halifax there is a local cultural quirk of people emphasizing how small it is, apologizing for it, and talking about how much greater other places are. You're probably more likely to hear the small town thing from somebody from Halifax than from somebody from say Moncton, Saint John, or Victoria. There is nothing wrong with this perspective but it's often incorrectly taken to mean that there's something particularly small town about Halifax compared to other similar cities and towns, which there isn't really. Actually it's the opposite.
Note that you can also flip the Montreal thing around. A visitor from NYC may refer to Montreal as a small town (people from cities like Shanghai have told me they consider Toronto or Vancouver small, and found it silly how Canadians treat them like big cities when they have such limited streetlife, metros, etc.). But if you want to know what it's like to travel around Montreal or how busy it is and so on, "it's a small town" is not very helpful.
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