Montreal!

East Montreal... semantics. Sorry for the typo.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/magnificent-montreal/1

good article that sort of sums up nicely what i <3 about this town

my friend is the guy leading the writer around

haha. yeah it's a great piece. but i want to know more about adam sachs, not adam gollner! :)

what do you want to know

(i dont know anything)

Can I move there? Do they like foreign people?

yes and yes

Spent a week in Montreal (and three days in Quebec City) for our honeymoon. Such a great place.

nice, what did u do?

I dunno, Canadian immigration people have always been the biggest hardasses to me. Sometimes I fly home with Air Canada and have a layover in Toronto and always get GRILLED. Why am I here? Well, I have a flight to catch and will be leaving in 45 minutes, so I don't really think I'm a danger to your country.

It is a VERY great place, and I only really spent something like a day and a half there. Everyone should visit.

well maybe I think you're a danger to my country adam

Well I am a bit messy sometimes.

Still, I like the idea of living in Canada. You never know.

You have to watch out for him, he likes to film things. (Wait, who am I warning against who?)

Stayed at one of those boutique hotels by the water (one with awesome fucking room service), went to a ton of restaurants, bought a ton of records, hit that Miles Davis exhibit at the art museum, saw some sights and witnessed some of the glory that was Canada Day and the boiling heat wave that followed (if it had been any other type of vacation I would have dropped you a line, Slock). Don't recognize most of the places in that article but oddly enough I ordered all three things (foie gras poutine, duck-in-a-can, and seafood platters) mentioned being at Restaurant au Pied de Cochon. Even splitting the poutine and the seafood, this was in hindsight a bit too ambitious.

My only complaint was that I couldn't seem to get the right kind of iced latte and wound up hitting starbucks more than I wanted to.

oh i coulda helped you with that

glad u had a good time and of course i understand you wouldnt exactly want to be like hey new bride, can we take some time on our honeymoon to meet some random bon vivant from the internet

but if u ever come back, lemme know!!

hey new bride, can we take some time on our honeymoon to meet some random bon vivant from the internet

Le Proposal Indecent

How big is Montreal? DO many people live in quaint Olde Worlde apartments with high ceilings above patisseries and such? And ride bicycles in elegantly faded clothes?

They definitely ride bicycles.

but if u ever come back, lemme know!!

definitely!

actually yes

Is Montreal on a river? What is the countryside like outside of Montreal?

it's IN a river

(it's an island)

Wow!

I just don't know much about Montreal. All I know is through s1ocki and rrrobyn and I think there were once some olympics there or something. It sounds nice.

there's some really nice countryside not too far away. the laurentian mountains. the eastern townships (really old settlements). vermont is like 45 minute drive.

The mix of stations in French and English was pretty awesome. Loved little details like Two And A Half Men being called "Mon Oncle Charlie." Also appreciated the French pronunciation of "Jack Donaghy"

hahaha

i love the movie titles too

for some reason the one that always stood out was BOOTY CALL which was called ALLO BABA! (exclamation mark included)

Montreal film title translations vs. Helsinki film title translations.

I love the alt. Twilight titles. So much more appropriate.

i used to enter the movie listings for my paper (worst job ever btw) and so i read all of them

o ya simon i was just chuckling about that today.... eclipse is called TWILIGHT: HESITATION

hahahaha

also came across some kind of candid camera show called something like "droll and sexy" that seemed to mostly be people being squirted with water and topless women walking out of closets in department stores.

xpost was just about to mention the posters for Twilight: Hesitation

that's actually what life is like most of the time

btw mazel tov on the whole getting hitched thing

thanks!

Haha Hesitation

o ya simon i was just chuckling about that today.... eclipse is called TWILIGHT: HESITATION

I saw one of those posters and thought, "Instant improvement."

i mean it sort of cuts to the core doesn't it

I need to see Twilight

How big is Montreal? DO many people live in quaint Olde Worlde apartments with high ceilings above patisseries and such? And ride bicycles in elegantly faded clothes?

The population of the island is ~1.5 million, the metropolitan pop. is ~3.5 million.

Can I move there? Do they like foreign people?

Do you speak French? Then, yes!
Seriously though, if you want to immigrate to Canada and plan to live in Quebec, the province (in addition to the federal government) has to approve your residency there.

I used to speak ok French, I went to school in Paris for a brief while. But it was long ago and my French is embarrassing these days. I'm sure it is all in there somewhere.

Hey I was born in 78 too! Or maybe your name is ref. to 78rpm vinyl records

xpost- I lived there for 7 years and barely spoke any French. I think it matters in the rest of Quebec but almost not at all in Montreal (unless it's a really francophone neighborhood).

it matters if you want to live there as an immigrant.

yay, 1978, xpost.

Yeah my French is embarrassingly bad... grew up in the west and haven't had the chance to take classes here but I get by quite easily. But yeah, immigrating is another issue. Have a friend here who did it though (from the USA). She had to do an interview in French, for which she studied like mad for about a month, and passed quite easily.

for some reason montreal attracts the coolest anglos from the rest of canada, and has a pretty thriving english cool kids community. a lot of the less corny bc dudes move here, loads of haligonians and nova scotians. they're a good crowd. many of my friends live fulfilling and happy lives without significant contact with francophones.

that's not to say you're not missing out, though. french girls are way cuter and often more fun and outgoing than english ones, and although quebecois culture in general is not as appealing to me they are a people who have deep reverence for the sanctity of the leisurely life. lots of drinking beer and just hanging out and cracking jokes goes on.

there are some radical-minded francophones who can be unpleasantly forceful and militant about it, but generally speaking people do appreciate any polite attempt at speaking french. you probably have a better chance of kissing french girls if you've got a bit an accent, anyways.

Reminds me of a guy in La Fontaine Park, always muttering antisemitic garbage to himself, utterly oblivious to the world around him.

No idea if this is relevant here but it also brought to mind this piece from 2014:

https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/

lol

https://www.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cf-montreal-logo-1040x572.jpg

It's all part of the globalists' geographically challenged plan to co-opt Quebec into the EU!

I did not expect to see an article about Aunt Dai in… The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/montreal-chinese-restaurant-canada-customers-aunt-dai

their website is amazing but tbrrwu i narrowly prefer cuisine szechuan on guy & sherbrooke

in re Aunt Dai & truth in advertising, used to crack me up that on one street in Addis there was a place called Excellent Restaurant, a block further you'd reach Decent Restaurant

What a fucking psycho:

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/after-man-s-death-premier-says-no-to-curfew-exception-claiming-others-would-pose-as-homeless-1.5272986

I was talking to Raphael as recently as Thursday. I'm still mourning and he dares say such a thing, I'm just so fuckin angry at him.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Note that this is the exact same argument deployed by these folks against allowing people of religious communities to wear whatever the fuck they want because "someone might some day pose as a bank robber and rob a bank dressed as a muslim."

Nowhere else is doing especially good right now, but there is a special type of infantile performance art exclusive to paleo-québécois groups like the QAC that really fucking wind me up.

or sorry the CAQ

CACK, let's just say it.

too many sour beers

I had a nice lemon sour beer from Matera tonight. Legault is a fucking ghoul

Homeless community now exempted of the curfew. Thank fuckin god.

Based Cour supérieure du Québec. You certainly can't count on the CAQ to do the right thing in this regard.