Montreal!

sounds fun though!

lol, well your future children will kiss many a cute french girl should you choose to born & raise them in mtl

also u guys might find your attitudes get more liberal in this swinging city of bons vivants

Is it full of vice and delicious sin?

thinkin bout movin to montreal with bad french

full of copies of vice magazine tbh xp

I love Montreal so much...just been there passing through to and from Victoriaville (2x), but I'd live there in a heartbeat based on a couple of days.

Reading this article while in the process of deciding whether to take up McGill on their last-minute law school offer (and thus the possibility of staying in the city for the foreseeable future, instead of moving to Toronto) is probably a bad idea.

I mean, theoretically I should be picking the best program, not which city is more wonderful. Because, seriously, Montreal in a walk.

full of copies of vice magazine tbh xp

― young monet (samosa gibreel), Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:23 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Really? I am missing out on this distinct aspect of our culture! My life has had less Vice and more Vices&Versa these days. (which, btw, A++ place for drinks when you are up around St Zotique)

quebecois culture in general is not as appealing to me

Except...man. There is something so unself-consciously wonderful about monster truck rallies and souvereigntiste rap music and Celine and Caribou.

that was just a joke really, vice is actually totally less ubiquitous nowadays and i am grateful for it

attitudinally speaking quebec culture is pretty awesome, but i can't say i'm interested in it in any genuine or active way

u youngsters prob don't remember when VICE was based here

^^^grateful of this, tbh.

it was like the wild west

everyone lived on the plateau

listening to ninja tune records

drinking an espresso on a patio on avenue parc + reading french legal writing and surprisingly content with the arrival of a true montreal summer after that weird may/june false start.

ninja tune records? quelle horreur!

i think we've had a least a solid month of real summer tbh

yeah. And it was all in july! And those two weeks in April.

My life has had less Vice and more Vices&Versa these days. (which, btw, A++ place for drinks when you are up around St Zotique)

WHAT this place looks amazing. i was seriously walking to work today thinking "man i wish i knew a bar where they served a bunch of that qc micro stuff but like... not just their own stuff like ddc etc."

speaking of dieu du ciel though i went there on... wednesday? and had their summer solstice beer (i think) which is a sour wheat beer w/ cherries. it is like neon red with pink head and is so fucking good TRY IT MTLERS

Whoa and all of those V&V beers are en fut?!?! Awesome.

thoght that said TRY IT HITLERS

how weird would it be if i called all montrealers "a buch of hitlers"

or a bunch tbf

a bushel

Oh hey here's a question for the Montreal people: my French is garbage, how do I make it good w/o having to actually meet people? Everything on the internet that's all "LEARN FRENCH" is like "LEARN TRANSATLANTIC USELESS IN QUEBEC FRENCH."

You could try the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec at Berri. They have a section of language tapes/CDs etc.

it is such a good library and also nice to be in

man, i went through a few harsh months this late-winter/early-spring of 'oh, mtl, r u 4 me rly' but thankfully that has passed. i guess that happens in every relationship re people, places, jobs, etc. right now this town is rulin, so i'm glad i hung in there - like, where else is there to go in canada that is as good? srsly! i think i'm finally going to winterize a bike this year even. (lol now watch me get a great job in like mali or something)

I seriously spend 6 months a year wondering why I live here and 6 months a year wondering why I'd live anywhere else. It's so completely true.

If I weren't a non-real-winter person Montreal would be on a short list of spots to live for sure.

that travel&leisure article is pretty great! and well-written! (haha yeah, even i want adam to show me around and i live here) (he actually ended up in the group of people i went to see lou reed jazz fest show with! he lasted longer than the others)

is that after-hours at parc & beaubien still a thing or did it clse after the magical "6 motnhs and it's fucked" timeline that seems to exist for mile-end party jamz?

si1ver door? yeah, haven't heard anything abt it for a bit.. prob was a bit too talked-about..

yeah, the thing about montreal is that living through winter is key to summer bliss and key to serious love of this place. also: metaphor for life.

i always wondered if there was a trick ie. finding a job that spent half the year anywhere but here. my bosses at my old job used to basically spend all winter in the dominican republic. but then again they spent the rest of the year never, ever leaving DDO. kind of defeats the purpose of mtl summers.

I think Si1ver Door is opening a cafe or something actually. Or maybe I'm thinking of a different seekrit party hideout.

last time i was there a very high girl talked my ear off abt how i should buy a coffee because they make it sooooooooo good there (it was like 4am) and i was like "maybe next time :S"

so it is very possible that that's teh cafe place.

Is the DDC house beer Kriek (i.e. belgium style cherry beer)? cause that would be awesome.

i didn't even know about si1ver do0r and it is already non-existent? MTLFAIL. so bad at being in the know. i'm still all the way back at e4stern bl0c vis a vis mile-end party jamz.

gah so many scummy nights at the door. Kinda hate that place

i've had some wonderful nights there but i know what ya mean

someone offer me a job in montreal

I'm qualified

Is the DDC house beer Kriek (i.e. belgium style cherry beer)?

The site says "German inspired sour wheat beer," I don't think it's a Kriek style but from the sound of that it's not that far off! You should really really really check it out before they run out.

OMG I still have dreams about DDC.

But basically, no one's ever hiring for anything in Mtl, right?

My favourite thing in Montreal was Rrrobyn.

I've been here for what seems like forever. The food is still appalling (tourist trap brochetteries, rudeness bistros, overpriced fast food, casse-croûte straight out of Naked Lunch, Asian fusion nouilleries, the worst pizza of any major city in North America) in any of the areas that are "Montreal" enough to warrant living in. The food's good enough in some outer areas where the immigrants of colour have been granted restaurant licenses to cook their smelly ethnic foods, but you might as well live in Ontario and get a decent job at that rate since a Montreal suburb is just as ugly if not uglier than anywhere else and the food in Toronto is world class. Go ahead, live in Verdun. Have a hot dog. Tant pis. Or, live somewhere even shittier and, une fois par semaine, vas-t'en au quartier Chinois to enjoy the privilege of paying $8.00 for mediocre Pho. Bagels are good though, so is La Banquise (which hasn't poisoned me yet).

Any of the charmingly local nouveau cuisine has a kind of reactionary political context that I don't feel comfortable eating. Go ahead, eat duck and rabbit while your city collapses around your ears. Historical shit, right? Let's continue to harken to a semi-mythical vie de bûcheron. That's going to help a lot, bros. But the tourists love it so I guess you're getting paid, Picard.

The omnipresent corruption and incompetence can wear a bit thin. But, whatever.

Still not sure I'd want to live anywhere else.

maybe you're more of a toronto guy?

Not so much, but there is nothing I enjoy more than winding up Montrealers about their shitty restaurants.

...Whether it's the 1970s throwback "casual dining" or the extortionate, xenophobic "fine dining", fields of salmon is your guide to Montreal's culinary scene.