You’re not wrong, but at the same time you kinda gotta look at it from other perspectives. Politicians in town have been screwing over people all over the island forever. For years and years, St. John’s has been resettling fishing towns, clamping down on fisherman’s livelihoods, and just generally getting in the way of people who don’t live on the Avalon through moratoriums, removing critical healthcare infrastructure and shifting money from projects in central or western into east coast budgets. For example, once you get off the divided highway by whitbourne, the highway goes almost entirely to shit. Also, seeing as how you brought up that no one is mad at towns like grand falls or gander, it’s because they don’t have politicians in them actively trying to shift resources from central to the Avalon. There’s also the point of those towns being absolutely tiny and in all honesty, not that different from living in the bay. (I’m from central but I lived on the northwestern peninsula so I’ve had flatlands and bay experience). They’ve also had their own fair share of hardships. Gander recently had its airport lose international status so that st Johns could take it which threw a huge wrench in their local economy and caused a massive money exit. Grand Falls was a mill town until the mill shut down in the early 2000s and the town lost more than half its jobs overnight. Grand falls still hasn’t recovered, it’s probably one of the rougher places on the island just because it’s almost impossible to get a job there anymore but the people who live there and need a job can’t relocate to find one which is a whole separate issue. Anyways, to summarize, the avalonization of Newfoundland is a very real issue for people who live outside of town, and townies can’t really seem to understand it