r/StJohnsNL

It's actual hell. I've applied to over 100 places, including the ones I really would rather not live in, it's been three months, I've gone to something like 20 viewings in the last month, because most of the messages are just ghosted. I have people telling me they have 100+ messages on facebook, then I see new AirBNB's and elderly-only apartments, and condos that have been empty for the entire three months I've looked....

I'm evicted on September 1st, just wanted anything remotely affordable, stay living with my brother until I'm done college so we can keep costs down together... Now I'm bordering homelessness.

Nothing in my life has ever been so radicalizing as the last three months.

Just wanted to rant. Our province and city are being ruined and ransacked. 9 times out of 10 the person doing our viewing is from Alberta, Ontario, or outside of Canada. Long gone are the days of showing up, having a chat, and signing papers for a 900/mointh 2br in a shithole but both you and the landlord are okay with it because it's cheap.

Now I'm viewing apartments where I can literally see damage, rot, bugs, and other things and they're trying to tell me I'm lucky I got a viewing, and then asking for1500 POU, and having such lovely things in the lease like "Contacting the landlord incurs a 75$ fee", "replacing light bulbs incurs a 20$ charge", "sub leasing incurs a 200$ monthly charge to the tenant", and all sorts. I've turned down a couple apartments early on because they were excessively scummy or the house was in tatters, and now I'm wishing I hadn't.

It's fucked.

Am looking to visit StJ soon - any Goodwill, ValueVillage, pawn shops or second hand shops I should visit? Just looking for music, electronics, etc.

Has anyone been to the dinosaur park on Thorburn road? Looking to take my niece (11) and nephew (12) but wanted to get some insights.
Thanks!

Where’s the best place in town for a fella to get a shirt that ain’t tip top?

Hi, I'm looking for someone who can help me to remove my stairs carpet and put new carpet there. Does anyone have any recommendations who will be able to do it.

Looking for an immigration lawyer in St Johns area.

My questions may be simple enough for a consultation. Looking to keep costs down.

I recently received the divorce papers and I’m looking for some advice on what to do next. The divorce is completely mutual, we don’t have kids, and we don’t own anything together, so there aren’t really any complicated issues between us.

Even though everything is amicable, I feel like I should still have someone who understands family law look over the papers, explain everything to me, and make sure I understand what I’m signing before I sign anything.

Can anyone recommend a good lawyer or someone in the St. John’s area who does this kind of straightforward/uncontested divorce work? I’m not looking to make things complicated or drag it out — I just want to make sure everything is done properly and that I understand the documents.

We’re moving to a house that currently has electrical baseboard heating. Probably very expensive to heat the house in winter from what I’m told.

I’ve heard heat pumps may be good?

Does anyone know of a good installer or any other helpful information? Did your bills go down? Did you get a rebate?

Any information would be very much appreciated.

TIA

Is there any bakeries that do fresh bagels around St. John’s? I would love some good recommendations. (I am looking to get them to take home and toast/make sandwiches.)

I would also love a fresh pita bread, if anyone knows anywhere where they are made fresh locally.

Anyone know if there is anyone selling recycled rubber products in St John's, like 3/8 crumb shred from old car tires (mulch basically). I know can buy single bags are hardware store but looking to do an tire incline in it and wondering if anyone sold in by the ton were I could pull up with dump trailer and get a load of it.

I know it popular in other provinces but not sure if anyone here is selling it?

If there are any Arsenal fans in town, do you have a pub to meet up and watch the matches?

Hi everyone, I’m looking for suggestions on where to go to find some decent serving trays/ bowls/ platters?

In the past I always went to previously loved because they had a pretty big selection and it wasn’t overwhelmingly messy but they’re closed now!

Is value village the place to go now?

pls ty

Moved into a new place and the shower head is leaking a pretty steady drip. Every other time I've seen this I've been fairly sure its the shower cartridge. The dude who set it up clearly just slapped one of those crappy showerheads with a hose that you can move around that also had a stop button. I hate those shower heads but when I put a new one on its just a steady stream. Very small stream but steady stream.

Problem is that the person who owns the house is a friend who is tapped. We both live here and just moved in but trying to make sure that we're not going to get catastrophically fucked over on a plumber cost.

Wondering if anyone knows of anyone decent/reliable who isn't overpriced to fuck? Ideally someone who can at least tell me what the problem is if it isn't a shower thing for something relatively cheap too.

Sorry, world is just on fire and everything is so damn expensive. Going to go back to the shitty showerhead after a single good shower here. Might just end up screwing the old one back on everytime after I use the good one until I can find a fix. I hate being poor.