mmmla... it's a bustling transportation / distribution / retail / high tech city of about 80,000 with two adjoining communities, Dieppe and Riverview, of about 20,000 each. The outlying rural areas are fairly well populated. We are 1 1/2 h from Saint John, Fredericton, Miramichi, and the Nova Scotia border. The population base for retail is large and you could shop for a week and not see half of it. There is some light industrial, so the air is clean. We are twenty minutes from beautiful beaches on the Northumberland Straight... the warmest waters north of the Carolinas.

Moncton was a railway and military town. They are gone, but our motto is Resurgo, and, while the rest of the country is in a recession, Moncton just keeps chugging. There are buildings going up all over the place. Everywhere you look, there's an apartment building going up and people waiting to rent... I just can't imagine where in hell they're all coming from. A good deal of the growth was spurred by the call centre business which located here because about 40 percent of our population is bilingual.

I won't drone on... you can visit Moncton's website or Tourism NB and learn a lot more than I could ever tell you.