Driving to Montreal and Ottawa this summer

[Kemeticsoul]

And have never been to Canada. I hear Montreal is one of the best cities in North America, is this true? I've heard they have some of the best looking women in the world, again, is this hype or true? I'm not a single man, but we all love looking at beautiful faces.

How is Ottawa?

I've been told the people in Canada are way nicer than Americans. It would be nice to experience manners and decorum instead of rude New Yorkers.

I've always got along with our cousins from the North, so I'm excited to see the differences in culture.

I will learn French if I love Montreal.

Any and all advice welcome!!!

 

[Krallang]

Canadian beer sucks so bring your own.

Also the Canadian border guards know where all the best weed is so be sure to ask them where you can buy some.

 

[Kemeticsoul]

Canadian beer sucks so bring your own.

Also the Canadian border guards know where all the best weed is so be sure to ask them where you can buy some.

1. I love Canadian beer.

2. I wish I were going when it's officially legal in Canada. Be that as it may, I'm going to smoke my face off without the paranoia of getting a ticket or losing my job.

 

[HelloJapan]

Dude, both are great cities imo. Montreal is the more obvious pick, but I really dig Ottawa as well. The girls in Montreal are sooooooo hot, and fun.

Welcome to Canada and have a blast!

 

[Loiosh]

And have never been to Canada. I hear Montreal is one of the best cities in North America, is this true?

Yes, to visit. To live in, no.

I've heard they have some of the best looking women in the world, again, is this hype or true? I'm not a single man, but we all love looking at beautiful faces.

Absolutely true.

How is Ottawa?

Nice place to spend a day or two. Not that exciting, but historic.

I've been told the people in Canada are way nicer than Americans. It would be nice to experience manners and decorum instead of rude New Yorkers./QUOTE]

Compared to the reputation of New Yorkers, sure. Compared to average Americans, no. Personally, I find the people in Ottawa nicer than the people in Montreal in the same way the plain girl is almost always nicer than the smoking hot girl.

I've always got along with our cousins from the North, so I'm excited to see the differences in culture.

I will learn French if I love Montreal.

Any and all advice welcome!!!

Ottawa is basically am American city.

Beware the construction in Montreal, for the next five years, the entire city is being rebuilt, poorly. Two of the three ways to my suburb have been closed for those years, the people in charge should be gutted like hogs. Also, the level of corruption in Montreal construction is unbelievable, makes Tony Soprano look like Gandhi.

 

[choke you]

I've partied in Montreal a few times and went to a couple UFC's there. Definitely a good time.

 

[Kick_@ss_Seabass]

Women in Montreal are indeed gorgeous. The you need to consider tight now is the amount of construction going on. Streets are blocked and there is traffic 24/7.

Stay down town and walk or take the metro. St-Catherine street and St-Laurent street have all you need. St-Denis is being re-done so it's shitty at the moment, but you can still access the stores and restaurants.

As for Ottawa, the downtown is awesome. Lots of historical sites to visit around too.

Have fun.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Visited both in early April with my wife and our infant son. Great places. If you've got it in you, also check out Quebec City. It's beautiful too.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

i go once a year minimum to montreal, though @Loiosh refuses to meet up and drink beer with me

the beer is great, women are great. i love being in a city you can walk in.

 

[EvilDDS]

Both are very nice. Where are you driving from?

 

[Kemeticsoul]

Thanks all for the replies. Makes me even more excited to see and explore.

Supposedly there's more women inhabitants in and around Montreal. Damn. Damn. Too bad I wasn't visiting a decade earlier .....



http://notable.ca/beautiful-women-many-single-why-montreal/

 

[Kemeticsoul]

Both are very nice. Where are you driving from?

Albany, NY

 

[Kemeticsoul]

Yes, to visit. To live in, no.




Absolutely true.




Nice place to spend a day or two. Not that exciting, but historic.

Is Ottawa a better family city ? Why not to live in Montreal? Not ever going to leave the USA, just curious.

 

[Loiosh]

Is Ottawa a better family city ? Why not to live in Montreal? Not ever going to leave the USA, just curious.

Is Ottawa better? Depends on what you want. If you want a reasonable wage and the opportunity to get an English education for your children, yes. I love Montreal but this city has serious problems.

Montreal should be the economic capital of Canada, it had the largest port in the country and ALL of the history. In the seventies, the language problems came to a head, and with the terrorism (FLQ) and the threat of separation, virtually all big business moved to Toronto.

Right now my huge gripe with Montreal is the insane amount of construction. The infrastructure is collapsing so they're fixing it all at the same damned time, and the corruption is so bad you know it's going to cost all the money and be no damned good. They've been building an overpass near where I live for two years. They build the same thing in Ottawa over a weekend.

You rarely hear "Montreal or Ottawa", Toronto is always the other option. Ottawa is tiny.

 

[EvilDDS]

Didn't realize the construction was that bad right now in Montreal. Just googled an article and came across this funny picture, of this guy having lunch on a patio of a restaurant

 

[Kemeticsoul]

Is Ottawa better? Depends on what you want. If you want a reasonable wage and the opportunity to get an English education for your children, yes. I love Montreal but this city has serious problems.

Montreal should be the economic capital of Canada, it had the largest port in the country and ALL of the history. In the seventies, the language problems came to a head, and with the terrorism (FLQ) and the threat of separation, virtually all big business moved to Toronto.

Right now my huge gripe with Montreal is the insane amount of construction. The infrastructure is collapsing so they're fixing it all at the same damned time, and the corruption is so bad you know it's going to cost all the money and be no damned good. They've been building an overpass near where I live for two years. They build the same thing in Ottawa over a weekend.

You rarely hear "Montreal or Ottawa", Toronto is always the other option. Ottawa is tiny.

Hmmm interesting. Thanks for the insight.

Ottawa is appealing because geographically it looks like a beautiful place, not too big, not too small. It's clean too, from the stuff I read. I guess I'll just have to wait until I visit to see.

The construction business going on in Montreal seems like a true clusterfuck.

 

[Kemeticsoul]

Didn't realize the construction was that bad right now in Montreal. Just googled an article and came across this funny picture, of this guy having lunch on a patio of a restaurant

Damn.

 

[bref]

Be sure to hit up the strip clubs in Montreal. It's also a great food city so bring an appetite.

 

[2DUM2TAP]

As far as cities go they are pretty good. Montreal is my favourite city in Canada in the summer.

If I had my choice of anything to do at any time in Canada it would be to rent a cottage in the Muskokas in the summer with a boat.

That is literally the definition of heaven on earth.

 

[Loiosh]

Didn't realize the construction was that bad right now in Montreal. Just googled an article and came across this funny picture, of this guy having lunch on a patio of a restaurant

This city has to be the absolute worst for construction.

A few years ago they tore up Blvd. St. Laurent for months, which put several restaurants out of business. When they were finished, it looked awesome, but guess what? Hydro Quebec had to do work under the streets so they came back, tore up all the new stuff they'd just put in, and the street was a nightmare for several more months. I cannot begin to imagine the millions of tax dollars that just went up in smoke.

I live in Notre Dame de Grace, and there are two main ways to get there, both of which are under construction. There should be a third way... There's a street that goes from the Trans Canada directly to my neighborhood... But the street doesn't ACTUALLY go to my neighborhood because another, wealthier neighborhood has it blocked so they don't have to deal with all that traffic. The street ends, and the city has been talking about extending it for FORTY YEARS. The current construction is going to last for FIVE DAMNED YEARS and should never have been started without extending that street. Seriously, the only two ways to get home are going to be a nightmare for five years.

When they built the Olympic stadium back in '76, the corruption was so bad we ended up paying one hundred times market value for concrete. Cement trucks would come and go and log loads when they were in fact empty; the stadium cost a billion dollars. The media proved it, and nobody went to prison. I have no doubt it's just as bad now.

There's a portion of the 15 called the Decarie Trench. One year we had a torrential downpour and it flooded, it was so bad an elderly man drowned in his car. They spent a king's ransom fixing the irrigation, swearing it could never happen again, and the very next year, it happened again.