saint john new brunswick, drive through uptown residential area
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Wow! What a beautiful city, I can only imagine what it looks like during the summer.
Thank you guys so much for sharing these videos with us. I'm looking forward to my MBA adventure at UNBSJ this fall. I love the city already!
Thank you Henry. We're happy you chose our city for your studies and hope you like being here as much as we do.
There are so so many seagulls all over Ottawa and outside the city. I was more shocked at all the pigeons in Saint John! LOL
Thank you for driving found my street (Orange). We love it!
If you miss the seagulls, head to Bayshore beach on the west side, it's our favourite spot in the city. I love seeing the seagulls hanging around at the ocean. Orange is a lovely street.
Im enjoying your little tours of Saint John , I recognize some of the area as Im from there. We moved to St, Catharines Ontario 1954. I still have a lot of family there.
Thank you very much. We will have more coming.
Great channel, guys. I love the public gardens area on Mount Pleasant. Kind of a hidden gem.
Thanks for watching. We will do the public gardens in the spring. The snow cover does not do justice to how beautiful they are.
great video,great place,i love uptown and the old brick houses,it's my cup of tea.
The old buildings are amazing. I personally am not qualified to do the upkeep they require so we chose to buy newer.
We currently are living in warm southern China . My two kids want to live in a place where snows and has waterfront view, now we have new incentives to move there-I showed the video to my wife and she has to live in the old brick house whatever it costs😓. Do you know the price range?
@@swu7308 that's great to hear. Those beautiful houses range in price from around cdn $250,000 to 500,000 depending on location and condition. You could also get one that has extra apartments to rent out.
It's great! Thanks for the info.Would you like to have a cup of tea when we arrive😀?
@@swu7308 Absolutely. We'd love that!
Even though I grew up in west Saint John, I still love the commentary videos.....thank you hosts.
You are very welcome. Thank you for the kind words.
@@WeLoveSaintJohn I’m always kind......that’s what Saint John people are known for. And I grew up in Saint John from the year I was born (1964) to when we moved to Quispamsis (1991).
@@BadAss15-60 Yes, they are. That's a big part of the reason we were decided to settle here. There is good parenting in this part of the country, for sure.
You appreciate the charm when you don't live there anymore. The house I grew up in on Germain Street had a basement foundation that was from before the Great Saint John Fire in 1877. Every room in the house had a fireplace - beautiful ceramic inlay. The architectural features included complex plaster ceilings, pegged oak floors and stunning tiled floors in the foyer and bathrooms.
We hear that a lot from people who moved away. Sometimes you have to see what else is out there to appreciate what you had. We feel fortunate to have lived through how bad other places can be allowing us to appreciate everything that's amazing about Saint John. And as you mentioned, the architecture is jaw droppingly beautiful.
Thanks for these. I am from Saint John and haven't been able to come home in well over a year, it's great to see the the city and the changes that have been made over the past year!
Thank you so much for watching and subscribing. You're not alone, there are several viewers watching our vids due to being homesick. Hope they help a little.
Beautiful ❤️
We will be moving in March to Saint John from Ontario. while we visit every year, moving will be another story altogether. Your videos are a great resource for us. Thanks
Thank you James. It makes us happy to hear we helped in some way.
Thanks for this video! I'm arriving (from Brazil) in SJ next July and I'm already looking for places to live, and Uptown is definitely on my radar. :)
Thanks for watching and subscribing. Feel free to join our Facebook group, I love Saint John, NB. We set it up for newcomers to city to introduce themselves to other newcomers. We have people on there that are moving here in the summer from Argentina and Chile among other places.
as a saint johner now living in Moncton, i must say you are doing a great job explaining the city.
Wow, that's high praise coming from someone who's from here. Thank you very much.
drove taxi for many years in saint john a d did hundreds of tours with cruise ship passengers. very historical city but i assume you have checked that ouy.
@@nonenone4880 The only time we were in Saint John before moving here was on a cruise. We had a few hours in port on an incredibly rainy October day. Walked from the port to reversing falls, and were very grateful to the taxi driver that took us back. That short rainy day made a pretty big impact on us though. Thank you again for your comments.
Very nice! Welcome to Saint John 😊.. so nice to see your adventure, I love the west side too!
Thank you! We've been here three years now so not completely new, but still discovering more to love about the city everyday.
Hi Sara I grew up on sheriff st behind lord beaver brook rink I also grew up with a kid named Blake mcCausland Maybe a relative
@@kevinbaldwin9428 don’t recall, but I didn’t grow up in Saint John. :)
Nice tour.
My Grandmother used to live on Sewell St. I live in Ontario but a lot of my family in SJ area
Thanks for watching from Ontario. Hope you're staying safe there.
You must show us Jermaine street again in the summertime or the fall. I can only imagine how pretty it looks.
We plan to remake a lot of the videos when the weather gets nicer so we will definitely do that one.
So so beautiful ❤️..Thanks a lot. Pls cover St Andrew...
We will, just waiting for prime weather.
I think the south end has a great amount nice buildings. You pretty well drove by my street. South end has quited down a lot . The rents have gone up a great deal since the covid. Like I said it's all in the co.pany you keep lol.
Thank you for your insights.
Hello again, Les and Wendy, now I also watched this video as well, wow..
An outstanding tour of what Uptown and surrounding areas look like..
You are right on, unique, beautiful and seemingly vibrant SJ is a real character city..
Les, you mentioned that it would be ok to ask you more questions.
Ok, here they are.
1. How prone is SJ (in your exp.) to hurricanes, floods, storms, compared to Halifax, Fredericton, and the other St. Johns, NL?
You got the highest tides in the world.. New Brunswick floods and East Coast hurricanes do make news occasionally..
2.Would you be able to recommend any cont. /website/realtor etc. specifically for an apartment rental Uptown (on month to month basis?)
I have no car and would be looking for an affordable 1bdr in the area within reach to city center/buses/grocery stores
You said in this video that some of these apt. build. Uptown provide such rentals, but how would i get in touch with them? (Asking this for the future planning because, like I wrote before, i cant afford to travel at the moment..)
Hi Joan. I'm happy that our videos are helping you and others to consider what a life in Saint John could be like.
Regarding hurricanes, floods etc., keep in mind we have only lived here for three years, but we did get to experience first hand Hurricane Dorion which was the biggest storm to hit the maritimes in several years. It was the most fun I've had in a long time, but then I like storm watching. The waves on the ocean were amazing, there were several big trees uprooted and some roofs were damaged but overall, nothing major and it was gone and back to sunshine in about a day. Hurricanes are much worse along the eastern coast of Nova Scotia and parts of PEI and NL. We are somewhat protected by geography here.
Flooding can be a problem along the rivers during the spring thaw, but if you don't live on river banks its not an issue. Flooding from storms does happen in low lying parts of the east and west sides but not really in most parts of uptown as its built on a hill. We get storms called nor'easters which bring heavy rain and wind a few times each year which can flood basements and roadways.
As far as rentals, we're not renters so I don't have much experience with those resources, however, I have looked at a site called prop2go.com which offers a lot of rental listings and provides really good info about apartments for rent throughout the city, including photos. There's no Craigslist here but Kijiji is also a good resource. The companies we mentioned in the video are highly respected developers that are largely responsible for kickstarting the revitalization of uptown. They buy beautiful but rundown buildings and restore them to all their original glory but with a modern touch. Historicadevelopments.com offers a variety of furnished and unfurnished apartments in restored buildings on a short or long term basis. Chipmanhill.com offers mostly smaller furnished suites on a month to month or shorter basis, also in their own restored buildings.
Keep in mind there is no rent control in New Brunswick, as it has never been an issue, but some out of town investors have been making the news with huge rent increases, so try to rent from a local owner if possible.
You do not need a car to live uptown if you are mobile, everywhere is walkable. There is currently no grocery store uptown but that will change within the next year or so. We did a video on the City Market, an awesome place like a smaller version of Granville Island Public Market, and there are other small markets too. Everything else you need is uptown including one of the two hospitals in the city. Bus service is very good for a small city and you can get almost anywhere with a transfer.
Hope this helps.
@@WeLoveSaintJohn Thank you so much , indeed!! And a double "thank you" for very useful links to the developers and to the rental websites!
Yes, Uptown sounds like a place I could vibe with easily.I am very fit, so walking ,using buses, or even getting around in the snow is very easy for me, used to that and love it..
I watched your videos about City Market and the mall , they are very nice..I heard you saying there, that the city is in the talks to put a big grocery ancor in Brunswick Sq. mall..So this is good news for ppl like me..(also sounds like this and the other big project in the city will create some more jobs too..)
You are a gem , thank you for your time and again wishing you and Wendy all the best and positive in your life in SJ, maybe see you two there one day..Cheers!:-)))
Edit: Just checked both of the websites (the ones of the developers) Very impressed..although these are expensive but still.. Definitely something to look forward to in the future..:-))
I'm actually blown away by the charm. Most Canadian cities of this size are just one big ugly strip mall.
Agreed, completely. We moved from a city basically the same size, and it was just one big ugly strip mall. This place is brimming with character.
would be nice to see in summer
We have several summer uptown videos.
Hey guys. A question about dogs. Do you guys need to put boots on your dog in the winter time?
No. We once tried but he hated them. Our dog is a pit bull and has never had issues with the snow or cold.
St John st david church on Germain street
'Uptown Saint John'....the main shopping area used to be King St. and around King Square....so to go shopping, you went up King St., there fore you went uptown.
Are you saying that's where the name came from? Like up the hill?
@@WeLoveSaintJohn Yes...generally speaking that's where it came from.
I know that some of the buildings in uptown Saint John are haunted.
No arguments here. I don't know how they couldn't be haunted.
@@WeLoveSaintJohn my brother was a Saint John City tour guide for one of the tour shuttles.
@@BadAss15-60 sounds like a fun job. I met a guy who was retired but drove one of the pink double decker buses during cruise season. He loved it.
@@WeLoveSaintJohn that pink double decker used to be parked in the DVA hospital parking lot. I know coz we could see it from our Prince Street house kitchen window.
Love your videos!
You've mentioned that you've come from BC and Alberta, could you explain the reason for that?
I want to move to Canada and still not sure where to go exactly.
Thanks!
Thank you for watching. BC is very beautiful and mild but is extremely expensive for housing and we grew tired of all the crime, pollution and traffic. Southern Alberta is nice enough but still a lot more expensive than here, plus it has much colder winters and no ocean, which is important to us.
@@WeLoveSaintJohn wow, pollution in BC! Something new for me.
But are there jobs available in New Brunswick? I'm a chemist and I'm not sure if there is one for me
@@altay4room The population of BC is around 7- 8 times greater than the population of New Brunswick so there are more jobs in general. However, unemployment rates are similar and New Brunswick has a higher percentage of it's population entering retirement years which means there is a shortage of skilled workers. Pay is a little higher in BC, but it is nowhere near high enough to compensate for the outrageous housing costs. As far as pollution goes its twofold. There are constant air quality warnings issued throughout the summer regarding both the pollution from Vancouver that lingers over the area trapped by the surrounding mountains that creates a greenhouse effect, but also due to the yearly forest fire smoke that infiltrates the area from Alberta, BC and the western U.S. Climate change has made this worse every year. Pollution is less of a factor in the interior of the province, though you still get the smoke issues.
@@WeLoveSaintJohn Wow! Something to consider. I think this deserves a proper video)
Thank you so much!
@@WeLoveSaintJohn I am in the Kootenay Valley BC and right in the hub of the worst of the fires. Even when it appears somewhat clear outside the air quality index is still hovering around 160! I really appreciate your videos and am seriously considering Saint John, Moncton before I stumbled across your videos, which made it a no brainer for me. Can you provide me information with your realtors info to anitavirginillo@hotmail.com? Thanks in advance :)
Hey bro , i want some really imp suggestion!
I got LOA for NBCC college for fall 2021 in ST.JOHN campus . So i live currently in india and planning for higher studies in canda . So can you plz elobrate me how the ground situation is be for a student and how its majorly in nbcc st.john campus OR else i moved towards ontario in Brampton city in Sheridan college?
Plz give your suggestions it will be imp for me!!
What have you done? And how much time it took for you to receive offer letter, and do NBCC mention the last date to deposit the tution fees? If I apply next month for Fall 2022 intake, what would be the last date of fees submission as I am applying so early.
@@sakshambansal7383 now for 2022 the intake will not start from now , and the loa will take time of 1 month approx , it can vary to your profile , for fees they give 1 mothn and some days for deposit and confirm your seat than you can pay fully afterwards.
Hi can anybody provide suggestions of studying at university of new brenswik at st john campus UG program. I'm from india. Kindly advice.
My advice is to contact the university directly.