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It was amazing! Definitely the artsiest city I’ve ever been to and I’ve been to 19 countries. I loved the poutine and the bagels. It definitely felt vaguely European especially with everyone speaking French haha. Hopefully someday I will go to QC too

:) And here’s the amazing thing: Montréal is like the halfway house between anglo North America and the rest of Québec. When I first moved to Mtl in 2007, I thought it was basically just like Europe. Then in 2011, the first time I visited Québec City, I realised that Montréal is only halfway there - in QC City, you get the real deal. Québec City is basically a very good compromise between Europe and North America. Montréal is more of a big, cosmopolitan, admittedly very artsy city with a strong flavour of Québec. Also, Mtl is functionally bilingual, which is the only part of the province of QC which is - the rest of it, with very occasional exceptions in the Eastern Townships, 100% French. Even QC City is now up to 98% native French-speaking. It’s pretty cool! Here, they think that Mtl is completely anglophone (English-speaking), and when I gently point out that it’s honestly about half and half, they think I’m crazy - they’re just not used to hearing English on the streets at all, beacuse you don’t here, unless it’s tourists in the Old City. Definitely come here sometime - it’s incredibly beautiful!