the_almighty_smack said
its still better than Boston

 

atleast Montreal is considered an alpha city while boston hasent mattered since the 1700's

 

and Montreal's main dish the Poutine is much better than Boston's bowl of cum clam chowder dish

 

and pat realy this is how you spent your Friday night??

No, you're definitely butthurt smackey. It took about 2 minutes to find online, another 10 to read it and post it here. That's hardly spending a night on it. But no matter what I did, it beats getting together with other grown adults and playing gangsta dress up party with water guns. 

I don't eat seafood, never had Boston clam chowder. Neither have you, you're too scared to come to America. Only you would get so offended by the insults aimed at a food dish, you're really quite pathetic smackey. And look how mad I made you? You never post this much, glad my intended effect was received as I intended it to be.

Here's the thing, say what you will about Boston, I don't care, I'm not ridiculously attached to my hometown like you are. But that article was written by a Montrealer like yourself. Deal with the burn smackey, deal with it. All you Montrealers struggle to convince the world how great and important you are, when all you are is shit. Nobody here is buying it smackey, the truth is here, and the truth hurts. Your streets eat the cars for Christ's sake!! And you call Boston racist? You have language police. You truly live in a gutter smackey. Canada has some great cities, Montreal is a pile of shit though, as your own countrymen proclaim. If I'm going to Canada, I'm going to a real city, some place special. Like Toronto. Montreal, Christ. Referring to it as the cum stain of Canada is too nice an expression apparently.

the_almighty_smack said

“Still Canada's Best City After All These Years”

Reviewed 15 August 2013

Economically, Montreal has seen better days, however, the uniqueness and charm that have always made Montreal a world class city are still intact. 
The rivalry between Toronto and Montreal is legendary, and Toronto long ago surpassed Montreal as the economic and financial powerhouse of Canada. But in my opinion Montreal still tops Toronto by a landslide as Canada's greatest city. Others close by are Vancouver, St. John's, Halifax, and Quebec City all of which have a taste of Europe especially Quebec City and even St. John's. 
So what makes Montreal so special as opposed to most other Canadian or North American cities? In a word it's "character". Obviously its frenchness is THE major component of its unique flavour - from the layout of the streets, to the signage, to the french passion for cooking, eating out, enjoying life, or people-watching.
From side street to thoroughfare, from major intersection to old Montreal (a must see), there's nothing comparable to it in Canada (except Quebec City) and the United States - except perhaps New Orleans, San Francisco or New York. Even then you would be hard pressed to find a City with as many restaurants, bars, night clubs, attractive people, shops, churches, museums in virtually every area of the downtown core, not to mention 200plus year old Old Montreal - which is world class.
Recently we stayed at the Sofitel Montreal, a higher end joint, with a higher end price, for two nights. I ave also stayed at the "W" Hotel in Montreal (nicer and more $$) and some of the budget hotels. Oh yes, I also stayed at the Hotel Nelligan in Old Montreal when it first opened, and it was first rate. 
Make sure you visit the following: Notre Dame Basilica, St. Joseph's Oratory, Mount Royal (half mountain! half park!), the Olympic Stadium, the Botanical gardens, the Fairmount Bagel factory, and just about anything "recommended" in the Trip Advisor guide to Montreal. Or just explore the City on foot - and the subway of course.
WHere do you eat? Well take your pick! You could eat at a different restaurant for each meal, every day for a year and likely still not touch half of them in Montreal! You name it, it's here - from Sushi to french, and all points in between. You can buy crepes right on Rue St. Catherine! and Poutine galore. I could eat all day. This trip we didn't eat at too many high end restaurants, but we did have dinner at "Le Pois Penche" on Maisonneuve Ouest, and the Vieux-Port Steakhouse in old Montreal both of which (especially the latter) I found to be scrumptous. On a previous trip I have eaten at Gibbys - which is probably world class, or pretty close to it. If you want a memorable meal in old Montreal that's the place...
For the more adventurous, and for something you would perhaps not expect to find in Montreal, try out the Jet boating on the Lachine Rapids. Beware - you will get totally soaked from head to toe, no matter what. And remember, the St. Lawrence Seaway was constructed to get around these rapids - for a darned good reason! The jet boating here is far better than in Niagara, or in the other places I have done it. I guarantee you will be amazed and have a great time. Check it out on Utube first and you will see what I mean.
If you like amusement parks, La Ronde is a riot, although I have not been there in 10 or 15 years. I hear it is even better now. The subway system seems easy to use, and it is very well laid out. The cars are on rubber tires so even that is quieter and smoother than most cities! The people are generally very polite and english is spoken throughout the City, in most cases. I've never had a problem, and I try to throw in some french when I can.
I can't say enough about how much I enjoyed my recent trip to Montreal, and the various sites we took in such as the Museum of Fine Art and Notre Dame. I have been to Montreal approximately 10 times over the years (..often for the spectacular Jazzfest) and I simply love it every time. It has a "joix de vivre" that renders Toronto and southern Ontario (where I live) completely boring!

 

 

 

patjoyce said

Montreal Sucks and Everyone Knows It

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• The land of no opportunities; a city the world forgot.

  Everyone from this once glorious, waste of a cosmopolitan metropolis likes to boast about how there's so much culture here and so many interesting things to do –– but it's all a lie. The only seeming reason why there are unending festivals all year is because people are miserably bored and all they can afford to do is party on weekends to drown their sorrows in booze and drugs. Meanwhile, they're coping with the fact that if they moved to Toronto, they'd make twice as much money and enjoy the same overall cultural joys. Montreal used to be the centre of Canada long ago, but compared to its Western neighbour (which has slowly been luring away multi-national corporation HQs since the 1990s), it has seen little growth in the past fifty years –– save for the golden heydays of 1960 - 1974, when the city was a shining North American jewel and a top destination for worldly travellers.

  

  

  

  The city is home to a rich, booming arts scene. I guess when all other prospects for industry are dismal, you might as well slap a fresh coat of paint over the deepening surface cracks and pretend that everything is rosey. Cheap rent will make any city attractive to people who want to dive into their art without having to work on the side. Bedbugs are just something you'll have to live with. Even on paper, this city is a disaster. Of the 22 metropolises in North America with a centralized population of over 2 million, Montreal is the poorest and has half of the Canadian average entrepeneurship per capita. This is primarily because city and province regulations, as well as its taxing system, seem to be intentionally designed to scare away businesses and investors. Montreal's top income earners pay 48.22% personal tax. Yes, Toronto pays almost as much (at 47.22%), but in Montreal that number just went up by 1.75% and kicks in at only $100,000 annual income. This means that almost every skilled professional falls in the top tax tier. It also means that they're easily deterred from living here.

  "I grew up being a socialist and I have problems with it because I grew up in Canada [and] I’ve spent a lot of time in Scandinavia, where I believe countries legislate out creativity. They cut off the tall trees. Everyone’s a C-minus. I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical. Thanks, Canada."

  Vice co-founder and ex-Montrealer Shane Smith, who left Montreal in 1998 for Brooklyn, taking Vice with him and never looking back.

   

  Inadequate Infrastructure

  Seriously: the infrastructure here is decrepit and is only getting worse. Spending to keep people safe seems to be low on the city's priority list, with Montreal barely being able to maintain Canada's busiest domestic bridge. You could be walking to class minding your own business when:

  

  These scenes are generally followed by a flock of idiots who swarm the abyss trying to get a closer look. Also present: local blogs and news stations thinking this will be the story that warrants their existence. Astonishingly, the above image was taken in the middle of a university campus (Concordia) at one end of the city's main shopping strip (Ste-Catherine St.). The incident was mere weeks apart from another, where a man (also minding his own business) stumbled into a scene that could have come straight out of Looney Tunes: a ton of metal –– literally a sheet of metal weighing a ton –– fell on him. Just another day in Montreal. You could also be driving on your way home to the suburbs when this happens:

  

  Whoops; the roads have a bit of an appetite. They're probably just upset because they don't seem to have been repaved in a while. Construction here likes to cut corners in order for exorbitant public-work contracts to come sooner. It's not borderline criminal; it is actually criminal behaviour. There are corrupt politicians who give away contracts to advance their careers and save a buck; Montreal's two previous mayors were canned after blatantly admitting to kick-back allegations. 

  

  Say what you will about Toronto's crackhead mayor Rob Ford, but to be honest, you know a city is on the up-and-up when a complete clown can run a booming megapolis with gusto. Meanwhile, the mob-infested construction industry here is responsible for naming Canada the country with the most corrupt industries in the world. It's all your damn fault, Montreal. You should probably stage a protest about it. You really love to stick it to the man.

   

  Civil Unrest

  

  Honestly, there are so many protests here that people stuck in traffic have stopped caring. The protesters fail to understand that nobody knows what they're protesting. Is it tuition, is it Plan-Nord, is it the Charter of Values, who knows any more? This brings us to the unavoidable topic of theCharter of Values. Claiming it wants to be a secular state, this province actually plans on firing all public sector employees who wish to wear a religious symbol. Meanwhile, it promote projects like this:

  

  The issue here isn't that the government is spending $210,000 to restore a church; this is a gorgeous historic building that should be preserved, and this project will also create jobs. Rather, the issue at hand is that the above sign translates to "Our religious heritage is sacred to us." So really, how secular do you want to be, Québec? The province is actually restoring the church so that new converted Catholics can burn down their synagogues and start attending mass.

  

  Have you tried finding a family doctor in this city? Expect a minimum two-year wait. Even going to the hospital can be a struggle if you live in the wrong neighbourhood for your language of preference. It goes both ways on that one (French and English can be dis-serviced) and they don't let you visit a regular doctor outside of your borough. I don't mind that all my medical services take place in French now –– I speak French well enough –– but the fact that I live equally close to an English-speaking hospital and have been refused service there is extremely upsetting.

  

  Don't start talking about the police here; they'll arrest you for sitting under a tree and they like tothreaten to tie homeless men to poles in extreme cold weather. If you're having some post-party McDicks's, they might even punch you in the face. I once had a police officer start writing me a ticket for J-walking, but when I switched back to speaking French, he said, "Oh, I thought you were only English. Just don't do it in front of an officer again." He was literally going to fine me until he found out that I could speak French. This brings us to the language issues in this messed-up province.

   

  Stifling Language Issues and Profiling

  #Pastagate was a thing. They are so strict about the use of French here that when an Italian lounge used "Pasta" in lieu of "pâtes alimentales," they faced a fine. This story propelled language issues into the national spotlight. Establishments in areas where you'd be hard-pressed to find a francophone customer have to hire French-speaking employees because if the language police come in, the business will be heavily fined. Language police are a thing here. How fascist is it that the government puts such an extreme emphasis on policing what language you choose to use? And in their eyes, it's for the greater good of the state. 

  

  Of any major city, this is where I've experienced the most continuous racism. In Toronto, and even in New York, people don't try to guess what neighbourhood you live in like they do in Montreal. Maybe that's because there are minorities living everywhere in those cities. Any city in the world you'll have people ask, "Where are you from?" hoping to learn about your background; that's just a universal condition that comes with being coloured. In Montreal, however, they like to know which neighbourhood you live in. If you look remotely coloured, there are times where people will act genuinely surprised if you don't say that you're from Saint-Michel or Montreal-Nord. This has never happened to me in New York. Nobody anywhere in NYC has ever suggested that I should live in a specific neighbourhood; people are free to live wherever they want. Here in Montreal, a third of the population is said to be a visible minority, but you could never tell from walking the downtown streets. It's literally like the city has ghettoized everyone to the outer boroughs in order to maintain a pristine condition for white people and tourists.

  The sad truth is that despite the diversity of cultures here (mostly attributed to the debatably cheap and debatably prominent educational system at the university level), the city does not offer enough to sustain interest once one's studies are complete. In this light, the tuition riots seemed to have been barely about tuition at all. Instead, they were a lashing-out by local youth who knew that getting a job after their degree meant years of unpaid internships and no secure employment in sight. Not only do the majority of graduates from outside of Montreal end up leaving the city, but those born and raised in Montreal see little choice but to pack it in and go down the 401, or risk suffering unstable, low-paying jobs while being taxed to death –– taxes that go to pay for this guy's yacht.

   

  Big City, Small Town Mentality

  

  And then, you have that which les Montréalais hold in the highest honour: les Canadiens. The team that has been nothing but mediocre for years is still an extreme source of pride in a sport that is probably fourth most popular of the Big Four. Sure, they are better than the Maple Leafs, but they're not top notch. This year, however, they're having a decent season so maybe we can hope for some kind of crowning comeback. If 1993 was any barometer, it will cost the city money it doesn't have. Let's ignore the fact that Montreal's football team comes and goes like a slideshow, or that we couldn't keep a major-league baseball team firmly embedded in the hearts and minds of citizens (we're talking about the Montreal Expos –– if the name gives you any indication as to when they were conceived). We like to forget that the Allouettes don't even use the stadium anymore because the roof has been broken for years and fails to actually open. But we do have a team with animalistic, two-faced fans who will beat you up in a bar when your favourite team is victorious. Almost any day of the week, you'll see tourists and locals alike wearing Bruins or Leafs memorabilia being verbally harassed with language that they certainly wouldn't use in front of their mothers. Actually, never mind: their Québécois mothers can probably hold their own in a swear-off. At least Youppi is adorable.

  

  I was on the metro the other day politely discussing school with friends when two elderly women began to make comments about the "stupid English that have infested [their] city" and how they"wish Québec would return to being exclusively for the French." They were shocked when four out of the five of us responded in French and told them to keep their opinions to themselves or at least lower their volume so we didn't need to hear it. It would be fine if incidents like this were localized, but in this city, they happen every day. 

  

  Speaking of the metro, I actually enjoy that it's blistering hot in the winter months. Too bad this means that during the summer all you can smell is armpit, as there isn't enough anti-antiperspirant in the world to tame the sweat after spending five minutes underground. I suppose the metro system makes sense, except for the fact that people don't seem to grasp the idea of letting people get off the train before you board. Nearly every day, I almost get tackled getting off the metro at Berri-UQAM. I was once pushed back onto the train and forced to ride to the next stop because one not-so-gentle man rushed the doors as soon as they opened. The doors aren't going to close on you, so calm down. How is it that everyone politely lines up for the bus but tries to turn the subway platform into a mosh pit? 

  

   

  Delusions of Grandeur

  The metro and its very pleasant train system connects the sprawling neighbourhoods to one another, which is undoubtedly needed as traffic in this city is a nightmare at best. What's funny is how all boroughs think that they are better than the next, as in any city. But in actuality, they're not any better. The girls in LaSalle think they're somehow classier than the girls from St-Laurent, who think they're better than the girls from Saint Leo, who think they're a more colorful bunch than the chicks from the West-Island. They all "go hard" with equal amounts of no class at all. I won't get started on the exceptionally tacky, unfathomably horny bunch that flood in from off-island.

  

  It's no wonder that Montreal is considered one of the porn capitals of the world. There's talent hiding in every corner of every bar and there's more than enough people with little to no other job opportunities. When in doubt, you might as well open up a stripclub on the corner because there will be no shortage of dancers, and no shortage of customers looking to warm up or ask for the back room treatment.

  

  I secretly like the winter here, which is only because you're somewhat close to ski hills and if you can get out of the city, it's fine. Don't sugar coat it, though –– winter blows huge chunks. The cold wind can make it feel like someone is throwing razor blades at your face while giving you a lobotomy. It's never a question of, "Will I fall on the way to work this morning?" but rather, "How many times will I fall on my way to work today?" 

  

  I suppose there are some diamonds in the rough. Keep partying strong Montreal, and keep convincing yourself that the laid-back, high-energy vibe of the city is actually productive and good for the city as a whole. But if I get invited to one more after-party on the basis of "Arcade Fire is hosting" and then have to endure three hours of the the most hipster-pretentious conversations imaginable, I might be provoked to violence. So there it is. You can whine about it if you want but we're all stuck here, just trying making the best of the city we call home.

   

   

 

the_almighty_smack said
Montreal 4th best city with quality of living in North America

 

8th best city for tourism in the world

 

the second happiest place to live on earth

 

your state has the cheapest beer at 10.99 a 12 pack and your states national dish is a lumpy bowl of cum also your state is ranked the number 1 state for child molesters.

 

and you spend your friday nights alone researching my city and making posts about it

 

your one sad fat bald guy pat

Delusions of Grandeur

the_almighty_smack said

Not The Most Attractive Bunch I've Ever Seen

 

Bostonians are an ugly bunch. Let's be honest. Since I've lived here I find it rare to see an attractive girl walking down the street. I'll admit that I'm a bit biased after living in California but Boston really has some ugly people.
The only exception to this rule is Cambridge. And that is only because of all the college girls and let's face it, most of them are from someplace else. 
I'm in my late 30's but most of the people I have met here are much younger than me and they are TORE UP! I mean missing teeth, premature wrinkles, bad skin, you name it. I don't know if it's because most people here abuse alcohol and drugs or what. What I do know is if you are looking for a beauty queen, look elsewhere.
I thought it was just me but recently I went to a Adam Carolla show at the Boston House of Blues. I was looking at the photos online and some people posted the same thing in the comments section. Not the most attractive people I've ever seen.

 

must be from their diets of cheap beer and lumpy bowls of cum

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was written by a guy from California. I admit Boston sucks, I'm not butthurt when someone insults it. Big deal. He's wrong though, Cambridge is the worst place to find good looking women. He's delusional. They're are some hot bitches in Boston, that's crazy. Plenty of scary looking too, but guess what, that's everywhere. I saw plenty of ugly bitches in Montreal when I went and I was drunk. Some hot ones too, it was just like everywhere else.

 

This is sad though, this is what you post up? Of course, the guy from California doesn't like Boston, or Massachusetts. It's the complete fucking opposite. Duh. That article about Montreal was written by a Montrealer. Someone from your beloved shithole who wasn't scared to speak the truth. God bless him.

His name is Maxwell Turner and he writes a blog and lives in Montreal. Google Maxwell Turner Montreal and there's your proof. 

Once again, proving you wrong is a pleasure.