St. John's

Well I had heard all the stories, just like everybody else… “Newfies are nice people, kind generous wonderful souls who will welcome outsiders in a heartbeat”. So I had to go find out for myself.

Well the first experience I had was with the moving company. They up and decided three days prior to arrival of my belongings to double my rate that they had quoted me!! I fought with them at length but they wouldn’t budge and the guy eventually got off the phone with me, and set his voicemail to say he’d gone on vacation for 3 days. Well I had to deal with the head office, which was fortunately in another province and so they were more reasonable and sorted it out so I only got a little bit screwed over. Ok fine, bad first experience.

What was to come next was a slew of treachery, deceit, con artistry, and substance-abuse-induced drama. I rented a place with a roommate to save money and to get to know the people a little better. Well did I ever get to know them. This roommate tried to con me into paying rent for 5 of her friends to live there who just showed up one day and took over the place. After I was unwilling to do that, she started spreading rumours about me to the landlord, who I fortunately got to first and so when that didn’t work she just up and disappeared one day, leaving me stranded with the rent. So I quickly put in an ad to find other roommates, two of which moved in. Well after a couple months of living with them and putting up with all manner of flagrant substance abuse, suddenly one of them just up and disappeared again. So I call to ask the landlord to find out what’s going on, and apparently I was being evicted for reasons he refused to tell me, but something to do with rumours being spread behind my back again!! I had actually purposely been avoiding the roommates because they’d been acting progressively more and more psychotic and going on weekend-long benders and spying on me and stuff. So that night the other roommate arrives and starts smashing around destroying the place. I call the police on him and they show up and he starts feeding them some kind of lies and more rumour again. That was the last straw, I left that day and came back only to get my belongings to move them to another place.

I tried not to let these experiences get me down, so I kept meeting more and more people, and each time they became aggressive, dramatic and sometimes even violent with me. Everybody here is a drunk. One girl I met “only” drinks 15 or 16 beer every 2 weeks and she says that she “doesn’t drink”. If you get plastered less often than once a week, you are considered a non-drinker. Getting drunk out of your mind once a week is the basic minimum, and you are VERY unusual if you don’t do this.

I have met several people who have lived here as well as other places in Canada, and every single one of them agrees and confirms that Newfoundlanders are the only people who have screwed them over really badly. It is understood that Newfoundlanders are nice to “their own kind” but very very mean and nasty to anyone who seems foreign or out of the norm. If you use proper grammar, you are most definitely going to be shunned and treated with reproach and disrespect.

To summarize, the climate in Newfoundland is the best thing about it, and sadly it is the most dreary, overcast in all of Canada, having the least amount of sunshine and the most amount of rain of anywhere. The people are absolutely horrid and the rumours about Newfies being “nice, kind, generous” people are absolutely untrue. They are greedy, treacherous, back-stabbing bastards who would step on your face to get over a mud puddle if there was a nickel on the other side. Worst people in all of Canada I have ever met, and I’ve lived 2 blocks from Main and Hastings in Vancouver, and also in Surrey, BC, as well as visited Scarborough, Ontario.

Now I FULLY understand how the cod were wiped out, considering the callous uncaring treacherous greed of REAL Newfoundlanders!! St. John’s, Newfoundland is worse, and tops them all in number of horrible rotten scumbag sleazy people!!!