i resent the whole "we're just another america" feeling
although, when i visited Toronto a couple years ago, it felt a lot like the US. The same general antipathy towards everyone else, everyone overly busy.
Halifax, however, is not like any part of America I've ever been to. It's great. everyone is friendly, the rich and the poor aren't separate, and the crazyness of life really just is a laughable city-effect, not a rule to live by.