As someone that just moved here late last year I can say it is the perfect spot for me. I have lived in Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver (for a short time) and I can say Saint John is by far my favourite. If you enjoy the outdoors there is so much to do and you don't have the insane traffic as the other cities.
This is the best video about SJ I've seen so far. I'll be moving to SJ next year for study time and it's nice to see meaningful portraits of the city. Thank you!
I’d say you moved here at the perfect time. Over the past couple of years, Saint John has been encountering a renaissance of nightlife, events and culture. Amazing people in the city are driving this change like Ray Gracewood from AREA 506, our MP Wayne Long who has brought in so much federal funding for developments like Fundy Quay, and many others. The buzz going on in Ontario and Quebec about moving to the maritimes is justified, and Saint John is really capitalizing on that opportunity. Saint John will experience growing pains during this time, like a lack of bike parking, people who don’t like change, and increased housing costs. I believe the best thing for Saint John right now is to grow our density as a city and have that population needed to sustain this level of growth and desire for more. I feel like we’re really making a name for ourselves as a city, and I’m loving every minute of it. I think your channel is fantastic because you are showing the world what Saint John is like. Keep doing what you’re doing! Saint John loves you!
This channel (along with a 4 day trip to NB) has me back and forth on the idea of moving to New Brunswick. Every time I convince myself that it doesn't make sense and I should stay in the Toronto area, the voice in my head says I could make it work.
Thank you for your videos & for giving us your insight-Moving out to Saint John from Downtown Toronto with my husband and our 1 year old in a month! We Look forward to exploring this beautiful city!
I moved away from Saint John back in February to Alberta after being there for the last 20 years. I miss it everyday. Watching the memorial cup and your videos really makes me want to come back . I love seeing the city come together. Over the years living in SJ there always seemed to be this negativity about how it's a poor city and it's this and it's that but until you actually leave and look at it from a different perspective I feel like you don't know what you had there until your gone . Keep up the great work , love your videos and I love Saint John , cheers .
I have been away from Saint John for 36 years. I do visit it frequently' but you couldn't pay me to live there even though I was born, raised, and worked there. So grateful I never had to resort to going back.
I lived in Saint John for two years while going to college and although I am a country girl at heart, Saint John will always be my favourite spot to go back to and I will never shy away from saying that it’s my favourite New Brunswick city.
Kyle Go is incredible! An artist actively changing our world. And may the city please heed your call: we need bike racks! Thanks a lot for sharing your video Jordan🙏🏼
Saint John has a lot of great culture and beauty to offer. The issue with the city 10-20 years ago was people didn’t feel safe walking in certain areas of the South and North ends. The issue today is gentrification, and watching the people and families who’ve lived in the city for many generations being pushed further and further away from the uptown area to find affordable rent. A good half of the uptown multi-unit residences are now owned by people who do not live in the city, and often not even the province.
Wow the city looks great! Hi from West Yorkshire in England! Really enjoying your videos, its so great to see you talking to the real people who live there, it really brings the place to life from all the way over here! Currently binge watching your videos!
Didn’t know you played on the Rock! I loved watching you guys play the in St. Stephen against the Irishmen because it was some of the most physical games we have seen in forever
Hey Jordan, awesome video as usual, so nice to see you attend 'Wasteland' with your little girl. Jim and our daughter, Liz, attended that show as well. Go Kyle! So happy to hear you and your family are loving Saint John, especially east, our neighbourhood as well as yours! Keep up the great work with your videos! Jim agrees, get the bike locks uptown Saint John!
Omg thanks so much for this videos Owens!,, you reaffirm my biggest dream to come true. Hopefully in the next couple of years (after finishing university in México) going as an international student in S.J and then try to obtain PR to live there, it’s my dreamed lifestyle 😭❤️
I live in Fredericton and Saint John has grown so much it used to be the butt of the jokes now I actually want to visit it and explore what it has to offer where as I used to only go for the pool in Brunswick Square
Love❤this!! I'm from here work uptown. I've been missing events. haven't even seen container village yet. Time to start exploring my own backyard again. Beautiful video of our awesome city. #saintjohn
I can't speak to the city's future, but compared with the past, there appears to be much more diversity and, as one of your interviewees said more hunger. It's great to see the city and the people making such strides. I'm sure you hear it a lot, but great work on your channel.
Hi. Nice video. We are a couple originally from around Cambridge, Ontario who moved to PEI in early 2021, now considering a more permanent move somewhere on the mainland. Considering Saint John, Halifax, and Moncton. I know your advice would lean Saint John, wifey is an RN and Halifax and Moncton would have more jobs I suspect. Employment not the only consideration.
@@travelport7868 Very content not living in Saint John though was born and raised in SJ and lived and worked there for over 25 years. Unfortunately I do have to pay the place a visit often out of duty. No lack of people living in SJ that would give their right arm to leave if they could; I take pride in helping many over the years relocate to better places even some newcomers over the past two years that have never looked back. One nice thing about Saint Johners is.many are a resilient.
@@travelport7868 I forgot to mention I find the denial and sycophancy in Saint John endearing at times and can understand how poets over the years have written about this.
@@atribecalledowens You bet. There's definitely a need for many more. A number of years ago, Uptown Saint John installed a handful but it seems some of them are gone now. There are two shaped like bikes on King, one outside Java Moose shaped like a coffee cup, etc. There used to be one near Happinez shaped like a wine glass.
I'm I construction I'm a painter for Twenty some yrs and it is booming here now lots of work and I think st Joe's hospital might have bike hookup there could be wrong lol
Lol Dance guy in the video that guy been dancin for years..and i see u ran into another familiar face on king street. The guy that flexed.. I bet he did his representation of a ninja flip didnt he? Thats freddy
@@atribecalledowens lol ya man..but yet just as the others i love saint john too..kinda a love hate bit. But definitely more love. Lol btw loved ur video bro and cant wait to see more in the future
As Saint John for 50 years. Have you been uptown.. yesterday Charlotte street stores all boarded up. Sketch people everywhere drinking alcohol, picking up cigarette butts, city market 1/3 empty. King Street discrace. Empty hole at head of King Street for over a year.. nothing. Felt like I was in Russia. Embarassing.
I think the idea is that the city is putting a lot of resources into improving uptown. From what we've been hearing Uptown is leaps and bounds better than it was only a few years ago, with plenty of new infrastructure on the way.
Uptown will never be as vibrant or prosperous as it was in our day. It is depressing and economically depressed. The only time it has a feel of something going on is when a cruise ship is in or folk from outside of uptown or the city visit for a special event or come to drink. It is a sad sight seeing the poor addicts hanging out on King Square near the end of the months across the street form Service NB. Even the housing at the old Admiral Beatty is becoming a slum lord like serviced outfit. It used to be kept well.
@@rps1689 people here are trying though. There are issues in every city but SJ really dose have something special. Watching the city come together over the memorial cup was definitely something we should be proud of as Saint Johners
Good point talking about biking in the city, how bike friendly would you rate St John ? Beside no bike racks 🫤 . I live in Vancouver and bike is my only mean of transportation , i just love biking all the time everywhere, I wonder if St John would be a good fit for me then . Cheers and thank you for your work !
I would consider myself a fairly avid rider...before moving here. I give Saint John a 1/10 for biking (no bike lanes, people are not used to cyclists on the road, the roads are in terrible condition, very hilly, minimal bike racks). For reference I'd rate Toronto a 7/10 and Amsterdam 10/10. For mountain bike riding Saint John may be one of the best places around. Rockwood park has many trails for all levels. I've heard it's top tier.
“Mayor are you listening”? Accessibility for PWD is a major issue besides lack of bike racks. Love your channel, but you should rent a wheelchair for a week, and see how many buildings you’d be excluded from- including the “brand new” container village.
@@atribecalledowens the stories I could tell you over a beer (or coffee). Our leaders here seem oblivious to accessibility for all. Keep up the great work with your channel!
I found over the years, there are no lack of folk attracted to Saint John because they can easily have a false self sense of being special among the mediocre, whereas where they came from, they would not; adulation, some whitewashing, and having an ordinary talent of some sort usually gets them the attention they like or even need, that they would have never gotten where they came from. That being said, there are quite some unique talented folk in Saint John.
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Saint John is hot right now! What do you think about the future of the city?
Same old same old.
You guys should go check out the army turrets by the partridge island waterline on the west side. The trail is nice and goes all along Bayshore beach.
The revitalization is certainly welcome and noticeable. I love seeing things brought back to life and be vibrant again.
I am doing my research because I am planning to move from Ottawa to Saint john and I like you videos. So, I am positive that I would move there soon!!
As someone that just moved here late last year I can say it is the perfect spot for me. I have lived in Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver (for a short time) and I can say Saint John is by far my favourite. If you enjoy the outdoors there is so much to do and you don't have the insane traffic as the other cities.
True. Each place is special in its own right. Glad you found the location that works for you! Working out ok for us too :P
This is the best video about SJ I've seen so far. I'll be moving to SJ next year for study time and it's nice to see meaningful portraits of the city. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I’d say you moved here at the perfect time. Over the past couple of years, Saint John has been encountering a renaissance of nightlife, events and culture. Amazing people in the city are driving this change like Ray Gracewood from AREA 506, our MP Wayne Long who has brought in so much federal funding for developments like Fundy Quay, and many others. The buzz going on in Ontario and Quebec about moving to the maritimes is justified, and Saint John is really capitalizing on that opportunity. Saint John will experience growing pains during this time, like a lack of bike parking, people who don’t like change, and increased housing costs. I believe the best thing for Saint John right now is to grow our density as a city and have that population needed to sustain this level of growth and desire for more. I feel like we’re really making a name for ourselves as a city, and I’m loving every minute of it. I think your channel is fantastic because you are showing the world what Saint John is like. Keep doing what you’re doing! Saint John loves you!
Johnny on the spot for sure 😆
This channel (along with a 4 day trip to NB) has me back and forth on the idea of moving to New Brunswick. Every time I convince myself that it doesn't make sense and I should stay in the Toronto area, the voice in my head says I could make it work.
Thank you for your videos & for giving us your insight-Moving out to Saint John from Downtown Toronto with my husband and our 1 year old in a month! We Look forward to exploring this beautiful city!
Good luck in your journey!!
I moved away from Saint John back in February to Alberta after being there for the last 20 years. I miss it everyday. Watching the memorial cup and your videos really makes me want to come back . I love seeing the city come together. Over the years living in SJ there always seemed to be this negativity about how it's a poor city and it's this and it's that but until you actually leave and look at it from a different perspective I feel like you don't know what you had there until your gone . Keep up the great work , love your videos and I love Saint John , cheers .
How is Alberta treating you? Seems like a great place to be right now if not here! Especially over the past two years.
I have been away from Saint John for 36 years. I do visit it frequently' but you couldn't pay me to live there even though I was born, raised, and worked there. So grateful I never had to resort to going back.
I lived in Saint John for two years while going to college and although I am a country girl at heart, Saint John will always be my favourite spot to go back to and I will never shy away from saying that it’s my favourite New Brunswick city.
It’s been awesome lately!
Kyle go
Fantastic work
Kyle Go is incredible! An artist actively changing our world.
And may the city please heed your call: we need bike racks!
Thanks a lot for sharing your video Jordan🙏🏼
Thank you for watching! 🙏🏾
Saint John has a lot of great culture and beauty to offer.
The issue with the city 10-20 years ago was people didn’t feel safe walking in certain areas of the South and North ends.
The issue today is gentrification, and watching the people and families who’ve lived in the city for many generations being pushed further and further away from the uptown area to find affordable rent. A good half of the uptown multi-unit residences are now owned by people who do not live in the city, and often not even the province.
Complex issue no doubt. Thank you for watching!
Wow the city looks great! Hi from West Yorkshire in England! Really enjoying your videos, its so great to see you talking to the real people who live there, it really brings the place to life from all the way over here! Currently binge watching your videos!
:)
Didn’t know you played on the Rock! I loved watching you guys play the in St. Stephen against the Irishmen because it was some of the most physical games we have seen in forever
I missed those games!
another great video, I always enjoy. Keep diggin' SJ and keep the videos coming.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you
Thank YOU
Congrats Sea Dogs!!!
Looks like you had a ton of FUN!!! 👍👍👍
Woo Woop!
Hey Jordan, awesome video as usual, so nice to see you attend 'Wasteland' with your little girl. Jim and our daughter, Liz, attended that show as well. Go Kyle! So happy to hear you and your family are loving Saint John, especially east, our neighbourhood as well as yours! Keep up the great work with your videos! Jim agrees, get the bike locks uptown Saint John!
Wasteland was awesome! Excited to see how Kyle’s work evolves.
Thank you for watching!
Omg thanks so much for this videos Owens!,, you reaffirm my biggest dream to come true. Hopefully in the next couple of years (after finishing university in México) going as an international student in S.J and then try to obtain PR to live there, it’s my dreamed lifestyle 😭❤️
Wow. Stay the course and your dreams will come true!
Glad to see you found your home Owens Tribe. 👍😊
Thank you!
I live in Fredericton and Saint John has grown so much it used to be the butt of the jokes now I actually want to visit it and explore what it has to offer where as I used to only go for the pool in Brunswick Square
That’s what I’ve been hearing!
It's all relative, I'm old enough to remember when it had a larger population and was more vibrant.
@@rps1689 That was 40+ years ago
Love❤this!! I'm from here work uptown. I've been missing events. haven't even seen container village yet. Time to start exploring my own backyard again. Beautiful video of our awesome city. #saintjohn
Check it out it's pretty cool!
I can't speak to the city's future, but compared with the past, there appears to be much more diversity and, as one of your interviewees said more hunger. It's great to see the city and the people making such strides.
I'm sure you hear it a lot, but great work on your channel.
There definitely is some excitement in the air. Thanks for watching!
Saint Awesome 🥰
yes!
You might want to look up the word awesome.
Yes, thank you ... BIKE RACKS! Did you know that not even the Field House offers bike racks?
Really eh!?
Hi. Nice video. We are a couple originally from around Cambridge, Ontario who moved to PEI in early 2021, now considering a more permanent move somewhere on the mainland. Considering Saint John, Halifax, and Moncton. I know your advice would lean Saint John, wifey is an RN and Halifax and Moncton would have more jobs I suspect. Employment not the only consideration.
Been wanting to visit Halifax. Heard great things!
Saint John has as much nursing opportunities as Moncton and other cities.
@@travelport7868 There is a reason for that.
Amazing 👍👍
Thanks for watching!
Anytime bro👍
Your daughter is beautiful 💛
We moved here 11 years ago and never looked back :)
Ahead of your time! Good foresight!
Left 36 years ago and never looked back.
@@rps1689 yet here you are trolling a pro Saint John group. What’s the attraction here for you? Being miserable?
@@travelport7868 Very content not living in Saint John though was born and raised in SJ and lived and worked there for over 25 years. Unfortunately I do have to pay the place a visit often out of duty. No lack of people living in SJ that would give their right arm to leave if they could; I take pride in helping many over the years relocate to better places even some newcomers over the past two years that have never looked back. One nice thing about Saint Johners is.many are a resilient.
@@travelport7868 I forgot to mention I find the denial and sycophancy in Saint John endearing at times and can understand how poets over the years have written about this.
They aren't plentiful, but there are multiple bike racks in Uptown Saint John on King, Prince William, Germain, Princess, etc.
Good to know thank you!
@@atribecalledowens You bet. There's definitely a need for many more. A number of years ago, Uptown Saint John installed a handful but it seems some of them are gone now. There are two shaped like bikes on King, one outside Java Moose shaped like a coffee cup, etc. There used to be one near Happinez shaped like a wine glass.
I'm I construction I'm a painter for Twenty some yrs and it is booming here now lots of work and I think st Joe's hospital might have bike hookup there could be wrong lol
Good to know! A bit far though.
Lol Dance guy in the video that guy been dancin for years..and i see u ran into another familiar face on king street. The guy that flexed.. I bet he did his representation of a ninja flip didnt he? Thats freddy
Anyways i have stories about all them. Good times
Definitely lots happening that night :P
@@atribecalledowens lol ya man..but yet just as the others i love saint john too..kinda a love hate bit. But definitely more love. Lol btw loved ur video bro and cant wait to see more in the future
Dancing Dave is awesome. What a pure love for life.
As Saint John for 50 years. Have you been uptown.. yesterday Charlotte street stores all boarded up. Sketch people everywhere drinking alcohol, picking up cigarette butts, city market 1/3 empty. King Street discrace. Empty hole at head of King Street for over a year.. nothing. Felt like I was in Russia. Embarassing.
I think the idea is that the city is putting a lot of resources into improving uptown. From what we've been hearing Uptown is leaps and bounds better than it was only a few years ago, with plenty of new infrastructure on the way.
Uptown will never be as vibrant or prosperous as it was in our day. It is depressing and economically depressed. The only time it has a feel of something going on is when a cruise ship is in or folk from outside of uptown or the city visit for a special event or come to drink. It is a sad sight seeing the poor addicts hanging out on King Square near the end of the months across the street form Service NB. Even the housing at the old Admiral Beatty is becoming a slum lord like serviced outfit. It used to be kept well.
@@rps1689 people here are trying though. There are issues in every city but SJ really dose have something special. Watching the city come together over the memorial cup was definitely something we should be proud of as Saint Johners
Saint John is now cooler than I thought, it once wasn’t that good down there
Heard that!
Good point talking about biking in the city, how bike friendly would you rate St John ? Beside no bike racks 🫤 . I live in Vancouver and bike is my only mean of transportation , i just love biking all the time everywhere, I wonder if St John would be a good fit for me then . Cheers and thank you for your work !
I would consider myself a fairly avid rider...before moving here. I give Saint John a 1/10 for biking (no bike lanes, people are not used to cyclists on the road, the roads are in terrible condition, very hilly, minimal bike racks). For reference I'd rate Toronto a 7/10 and Amsterdam 10/10. For mountain bike riding Saint John may be one of the best places around. Rockwood park has many trails for all levels. I've heard it's top tier.
“Mayor are you listening”? Accessibility for PWD is a major issue besides lack of bike racks. Love your channel, but you should rent a wheelchair for a week, and see how many buildings you’d be excluded from- including the “brand new” container village.
Oh wow. Was not aware of that. It is an important issue. I imagine it would already be difficult navigating there to begin with! Thank you.
Mayors like politicians in NB are too busy cozying up to the Irvings; if they didn't they wouldn't have political careers in NB.
@@atribecalledowens the stories I could tell you over a beer (or coffee). Our leaders here seem oblivious to accessibility for all. Keep up the great work with your channel!
I love at John, ppl are human not like Toronto ppl.
Toronto people are great too. You just need to find the right people :P
I have to disagree i find SJ rather depressing, i much prefer moncton and freddy
Good cities too :)
Yep, I find it depressing, polluted, and too economically depressed.
I found over the years, there are no lack of folk attracted to Saint John because they can easily have a false self sense of being special among the mediocre, whereas where they came from, they would not; adulation, some whitewashing, and having an ordinary talent of some sort usually gets them the attention they like or even need, that they would have never gotten where they came from. That being said, there are quite some unique talented folk in Saint John.
saint john is def nicer then moncton/rectum
I tend to agree
Saint John is just the armpit of the Maritimes.