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Originally Posted by TitleRequired
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Avenue B on Waterloo...... isn't it one? I see street people lining up outside early mornings EDIT: According to their website they pass out clean needles among other services but I don't think they are an actual safe injection site.
No surprise about the Steepleview issues really. If you concentrate the homeless you will also concentrate the issues that become more prevalent with homelessness. Makes an area highly undesirable as a place to develop or to live......Area 911 indeed.
But it's not just Waterloo. We recently had family from the US in town staying at the Hilton. They had dogs with them and one weekday morning around 7:30 or so the wife decided to walk the dogs up King St. She had intended to walk down King St east to where our grandparents former house was but only got as far as just past King Sq by the Loyalist burial ground. People in the area made her uneasy enough that she turned around and beat a hasty retreat.
I think I told the story here earlier of a young (30-ish) couple we know who had a place in the Harbourfront condos down by the Three Sisters. They have a small dog and she had several bad experiences while walking the dog in the evening. The final straw was being chased down Prince William by a street person screaming he was going to kill the dog. They now live in Millidgeville.
Yes, I know this issue is hardly unique to Saint John but unlike other larger urban centers people here have other, fairly easily accessible alternatives to living uptown.
We are empty nesters and some years ago thought it might be nice to have a place uptown..........that idea is no longer under consideration.
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