It is nicer, yes, depending on your preferences. But I just can't deal with it.
So this is as shitty as Churchill Park gets:
And this is as shitty as my neighbourhood, the adjacent Rabbittown gets:
Objectively, I know the Churchill Park one is "nicer". But for my preferences... the Churchill Park one is unacceptable. For me, those houses might as well be tents in the woods. They're so far set back, it's all so green, it's just... rural to me. You could live there 20 years and never know your neighbour.
Whereas in Rabbitown - it doesn't matter how bad it gets, even if the little front lawns are paved parking spots like on this particular stretch, it feels like a city should do. Everyone living in their neighbour's lap. My neighbours have overheard conversations I wouldn't have in front of my parents. I get woken up by the sound of the hot blonde girl's latest hookup puking the morning after. The waitor from Montreal two houses up plays his guitar on the front step and the Sudanese kids play football in the street. These little daily human things never happen in Churchill Park. I've lived there. People might wave on the short walk from their car to their house, but they don't LIVE in the street like they do in Rabbittown.
So that Churchill Park one, for all its green and trees... fuck it. It's meaningless to me. If anything, it suggests to me there is no neighbourhood life there and it's just some isolated existence with no daily human contact beyond whoever is actually INSIDE your house. And I mean, if that's what I wanted, I wouldn't even be emotionally dependent on St. John's. I could be happy in Bedford or Linden Woods or wherever else if that was enough.