Age: 32
What do you do?: A bit of everything – admin assistant, blogger, working retail at Love, Me Boutique
What do you love most about where you live? It’s a great mix of city and small town.  I love big cities, but Halifax has a great laid back, slowness feel to it and you start to get to know a lot of people in town. The best description of the city that I’ve ever read is from a local food blog – Passable.ca: it’s a passable city. We’re underrated and out of the way, but that’s okay. It’s pretty and friendly and has a great local arts scene. We’re not exciting, we’re not boring, but we are frequently intriguing if you spend enough time here.
Your best friend is coming in to town for one day:
Where do you take them shopping? Spring Garden area and Argyle Street. There are some great shops hidden on side streets, like Love Me, Sweet Pea , and the consignment shops on Queen Street. And then there is local favourite, Biscuit General Store.
Where would you spend a sunny Saturday? Probably eat our way through the city. Start with a giant brunch at the Coastal Cafe (maybe finally get up the nerve to eat the Elvis – a giant waffle sandwich with peanut butter and bacon), browse the shops in the Hydrostone, head downtown for some shopping, patio drinking on Arygle Street, or stopping at chip wagon in front of the library (Bud the Spud is a Halifax institution). Stroll along the waterfront. We’d have to do a ferry ride – because it’s the cheapest harbour cruise around – to hit up Two If By Sea in Dartmouth for croissants.  I’d probably drag her to Karaoke with Laurie the Guy at the end of our day because it may be one of the most awesome and ridiculous ways to spend your Saturday night. 
Where do you go to eat dinner? Vinnie’s Pasta Bar.  There are fancier restaurants in town, but this out of the way place is definitely one of my favourites. 
What’s the bar route? It depends on your shoes and how much you plan on drinking. I usually work my way down the hill or stick to Argyle Street (there’s enough bars on that street for you to avoid hills). 
Can you share with us a great hometown memory? Hard to pick just one memory. I recently spent a couple of evenings hanging out in the Public Gardens to watch the Proms. Almost every high school in town goes to the Gardens for photos and it was fun to sit back and check out our city’s version of a red carpet event.  And then there was the time that my friend Mere and I were the only ones to show up for a documentary during Pop Explosion, so we had the entire theatre to ourselves.
What one stereotype about your hometown just isn’t true?  We’re all kilt wearing, beer drinking, hick pub goers who listen to fiddle music.  There is a lot of that, and that’s cool, but it’s definitely a touristy stereotype.
How are you celebrating Canada Day? Drinking lemonade and vodka and eating twizzlers on a patio somewhere. If it’s sunny, I’ll hit the waterfront to people watch and get ice cream from Sugah.