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[JHikka]

Saint John

Dan Culberson
https://twitter.com/culbersontwit/st...70236808138753

[itom 987]

That is the best skyline pic of Saint John I have ever seen!

[DLLB]

Originally Posted by JHikka

Saint John

Dan Culberson
https://twitter.com/culbersontwit/st...70236808138753

Great picture of Saint John!

[Metro-One]

Sant John looks super American in that pic.

An old stock core with a couple commie blocks and an elevated freeway with ramps near the water beside downtown.

[Innsertnamehere]

It feels super american in general so that adds up.

[JHikka]

Considering that SJ was primarily founded and grew from British Loyalists fleeing the US it makes sense that the city feels US, but i've always felt that a better way to describe it would be to say that it's Maritime. In most cases you can say that the Maritime region stretches from Cape Breton down to Cape Cod or so, and is distinct from the rest of Canada and neighbouring areas in the US. More shared history with Boston than with Montreal, etc etc

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Sant John looks super American in that pic.

I was thinking the same thing. It looks like it could fit right into New England.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by esquire

I was thinking the same thing. It looks like it could fit right into New England.

You should see the town square of Rothesay (suburban SJ) - You'd swear you were in Connecticut.

[Innsertnamehere]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

You should see the town square of Rothesay (suburban SJ) - You'd swear you were in Connecticut.

I've been skating there in the winter before - the whole city feels very, very American in nearly every way to me. Rothesay feels very old crusty upper class Connecticut, the city feels like a mix of rustbelt america and lower income areas of Boston, the big highway running through town, every house has a massive lot in the suburbs with no sidewalks, the near total reliance on cars, the image of the city being "dirty" from those in the suburbs, the list goes on.

[MonctonRad]

Saint John comes by it honestly, it is after all the "Loyalist City", founded by American refugees from the Revolutionary War. There was heavy Irish immigration to the area during the potato famine of the 1840s, which probably contributes to the Boston vibe of the city that you also noticed.

Western NB in general tends to feel more New Englandy rather than Maritime. Fredericton does (but to a lesser degree than SJ). Saint Andrews and the Fundy Isles are definitely like downeast Maine (right down to the accent). Saint Andrews feels like a cross between Bar Harbor and Castine. The upper river valley feels like northern Maine.

[Hali87]

The inverse is true as well, in that a lot of Maine looks and feels somewhat "more Maritime" than the rest of New England. I'm thinking more of places like Madawaska, Presque Isle, or Houlton, none of which would really look out of place in NB or even NS. Even Bar Harbor looks to me like it could just be somewhere in NS. Around Bangor things start to look noticeably different, although I do find Bangor and Portland both look a lot like Saint John. It really is a sort of gradient. At the other ends I'd assume there's some overlap between Connecticut and the Mid-Atlantic, and between Vermont and adjacent parts of Quebec.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

It feels super american in general so that adds up.

The phenomenon of older residential neighbourhoods more or less in their original state close to downtown is something I associate with the US. Sometimes they are run down and other times they are heavily gentrified. They have relatively little middle class housing of this variety.

This has played out in a pretty interesting way in Saint John in that there are a bunch of older areas that more or less look how they would have looked 70 or even 140 years ago. And they are right near the inner parts of the city and include some of the areas with the nicest buildings. You can also find some Victorian streetscapes that still feel like they're near the edge of the city whereas in most other cities they're surrounded by packed in tract housing belts.

[FrAnKs]

I had never really noticed Rothesay before and now that I am looking at it, I find it quite surprising that there is such an important urban sprawl there (That you don't really notice from the Freeway) and slightly ''detached'' or away from the main urban sprawl of St. John. Interesting stuff!

[905er]

Kitchener, ON



photo courtesy royal york property management.

[kwoldtimer]

That may be the most "cityish" pic I've ever seen of Kitchener.

[Innsertnamehere]

all the new construction is starting to make the downtown actually look like a downtown of a metro of half a million instead of a mid-sized town.

[JHikka]

KWC has so much potential. Glad to see Kitchener growing up and urbanizing.

[Harley613]

London yesterday from the Park Hotel:
20210812_113307-Pano by harley613, on Flickr

[MolsonExport]

KW is growing up tall (finally). London has been tall for awhile but is very gappy.

[ssiguy]

That's a great shot of Kitchener and conversely a rather lacking shot {although still very much appreciated} of the true London skyline.