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Originally Posted by someone123
Really? In my experience, most people in Halifax don't pay much attention to the rest of the region. NB has a very low profile aside from Moncton, which a lot of people in Halifax think is the only other city (Saint John is weirdly obscure). People also know about touristy stuff in PEI and Cape Breton, and day trip destinations in the Halifax area like Lunenburg or the Annapolis Valley.
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Yes, but this doesn't make any difference to my thesis, and in some ways validates it.
Haligonians are dismissive of the rest of the region because they think the rest of the region is unimportant. Ergo they are de facto overinflating the importance of their city within the Maritimes (within their own minds). As far as Haligonians are concerned, Halifax
is the Maritimes. Nothing else much matters.
And for those of us living beyond that golden 2.5-3 hour driving radius, Halifax is not important in our daily lives. It is sort of there as a place to go to on a long weekend, but we are able to conduct 99% of our lives completely divorced from the orbit of greater Haligon.
I lived in Halifax for nine years, so I am familiar with the Halifax mindset
but I grew up in PEI, have lived in NB for nearly 30 years and also spent some time in Cape Breton. I know the whole region and I know for a fact that outside peninsular NS, Halifax is mostly just a relatively remote (inconvenient to get to) medium sized city which for some reason has complete control over the regional media.
I am not trying to shit on Halifax BTW. I honestly like the city. There is a chance I might retire back there. It's just that the relevance of Halifax to most NBers and PEIslanders just isn't there. It's partly because we are in different provinces, but also partly because of distance as well.