Montreal!

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

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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"