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Durnford said the response is making her feel like a second class citizen — especially suggestions from other Newfoundland residents that her town should just be relocated, or should not expect any help.

"We're taxpayers, we're people," she said. " We feel like we're just a name on a map, and everybody's laughing at us."

Durnford said it's just as fair to ask why anyone would want to live in St. John's,  where there's all kinds of crime.  

"I know that's being said, people say 'well, time to move them out, time to leave, they're only trouble anyway.' That's not fair to us. And that question gets asked a lot of times," she said.

"We live here because we want to live here."