Fredericton, NB, CA

[Beckalex]

I was accepted to a Ph.D. program at University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Has anyone ever lived there or visited the city? Any advice?

[thepoorstockinger]

I was accepted to a Ph.D. program at University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Has anyone ever lived there or visited the city? Any advice?

Honestly: it's an awful place. (never lived there, just visited on more than a few occasions)

If you don't mind my asking, who would you be working with/what field are you in?

[Beckalex]

Honestly: it's an awful place. (never lived there, just visited on more than a few occasions)

If you don't mind my asking, who would you be working with/what field are you in?

I applied for Ph.D. in history to work under Dr. Waite. Why do you say it's an awful place?

[thepoorstockinger]

I applied for Ph.D. in history to work under Dr. Waite. Why do you say it's an awful place?

Cool. I was just curious since the only historians I know who consider going there tend to work on Atlantic Canadian history and I was curious if someone from SoCal was going to work on the history of New Brunswick.

Fredricton is one of three small cities in NB. Saint John is kind of a bit more historical and working class with some off beat cultural stuff, Moncton is a land of strip malls, Fredricton sort of falls somewhere in the middle.

It's just small (50k people) and very isolated from a major urban centre. I also find it architecturally very bland, even though there are some nice older buildings. It's also a very white, fairly conservative (by Canadian standards) place.