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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
Brings a tear to my eye.  Happy to read this, especially from the west coast. I would have figured that 30% would be Halifax, not St. John's. |
haha, there was a time when it would have been Halifax for sure, but with the strong economy in St. John's and Memorial becoming a more respected university all the time it's definitely taken over.
For the high school classes that graduated even 5 years before I did, the percentage going to Halifax/NS schools over St. John's was much higher. Even when I was in grade 10 and first starting to think of what I might want to do, I put MUN and St. John's at the bottom of the list... then 3 years later that's exactly where I ended up going. Cheap tuition, George Street, decent concerts/performers coming through, city with character, pro hockey now... can't really beat that.