MCL Campus Life is set in Canada
If you look closely at the park background there are some tall corporate buildings in the distance and with their names. I counted four: BMO (Bank of Montreal), CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) Manulife (a Canadian insurance company) and AON (a UK insurance company).
I’m going to set aside AON since they’re global and consider the three Canadian companies. All of them have international branches so their company buildings could easily be seen in any major metropolis downtown. But three of them together? A bit too much of a coincidence.
We also know that MCL is located in a small town. Kim mentions it at the end of CL Episode 2 when Candy says it’s the only gym she has seen around. (Granted, in order for a city to have only one gym it would need to be tiny, so I’m just going to assume they meant no other gym in their neighbourhood.)
So three Canadian company towers, within a block of each other, in a small city. Yup, it’s in Canada.
Now that you’re coming down this curious and nerdy rabbit hole with me, let’s go down a bit more. What universities in small Canadian cities offer Art History degrees? (For reference, I’m looking at any city a population of 175k or less.)
Kingston, ON at Queen’s U || pop. 129k
Guelph, ON at U of Guelph || pop. 129k
Victoria, BC at U of Victoria || pop. 84k
Abbotsford, BC at U of Fraser Valley || pop. 141k
Sackville, NB at Mount Allison U || pop. 5.3k
Sherbrooke, QC at Bishop’s U || pop. 162k
Degree information via Study Portal
Population information from most recent census via Google
Guelph,Victoria and Sherbooke all have at least one BMO, CIBC, Manulife and AON. Thus it could be one of those three. My bet would be on Sherbrooke because it’s French-speaking or Victoria, (because that park, c’mon).
So there you go. Hope you had fun playing I Spy with me!
If MCL is located in Canada it makes sense for Amber to be studying either French or English to improve her career because Canada is bi-lingual.
If it’s set in Quebec then any French mentions (like Miss France and Nath’s cat being called Blanche) wouldn’t be so strange.
If Candy’s father was transferred to a far away province it would explain the expensive train fares. Via Rail is pretty damn pricey for long distances.
(More likely the artist who drew it is Canadian or used a reference of a Canadian city. But I thought it was kind of neato.)
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