Montreal!

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.

LOL I'm married and this is an entirely hypothetical situation so...

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