Andrew Unger remembers crossing paths with someone in Winnipeg who figured his trip from Steinbach to the big city must have been a vacation, rather than a quick and simple day trip.
“Maybe that’s sort of symbolic of how people feel about Steinbach in general, or their knowledge of it,” said Unger, who writes satire poking fun at Mennonite life at his website the Unger Review (formerly known as the Daily Bonnet).
“They think that not only is it geographically quite far away, but that it’s far away in a lot of other ways.”
The city of 18,000 people — which is actually only about 50 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg — is still perceived by many
