Canton is a funny area just outside Cardiff, a perfect outskirtsville, more complete than Cardiff is complete as a capital city. Of course, Cardiff did not become the capital city yesterday (although it did, to rub some idioms, become so overnight). Actually, when I was trolling through its endless glorious retail sector and found the Cardiff castle gift shop, I read about Cardiff's bid for capital city in 1954, and how the newspaper headlines heralded the day of Cardiff's victory as "The Day of Great Relief."
But it's hard to be a city.
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