Why I moved to Montreal

It's not that our Québec health care is of bad quality; it's the waiting time for services that's bad. My wife had appendicitis (she had no idea what caused her pain), and we waited well over half a day at a hospital 'Urgence' before diagnosis and a plan of action. In the end, she was successfully operated, and back home two days later. She really liked the doctors and hospital staff; but they were chronically overworked.

Good choice. Montreal is an incredible city. I live in Central Florida but i spend my summers in Montreal.

I really loved your video. I'm moving in August to Montreal and this video produced a lot of feelings on me. Everybody says winter, taxes, etc but you are the one that makes the experience worth it. Thank you!

I live in Boston and after only 2 days in Montreal I feel like I'm in love!

Better than living in Montreal (which I consider to be the best city in the world), is to live in Burlington, Vermont (2 hour drive from Montreal). That way I get to enjoy the best city life for a weekend or week, and then come back home to beautiful Vermont for a chill comfy life. Winter in Vermont is also way less harsh than Montreal winter! We drive to Montreal almost every month…and we have an electric car, so it’s super cheap :)

Juliano ’Montreal m ennuie’ means of course I’m bored with Montréal. BUT ’je m ennuie de Montréal ’ is perfectly correct and similar to ’French French (so to speak) and is well used in that case Perfect use no particularism Good Luck on your new life journey.

I'm from Vancouver and after a short trip to Montreal a few months ago, I felt in love with the city and its brilliant culture, people, and especially art. Now I'm learning Frances and getting ready to move in a few months, minimum for a year! thanks for your great video, my friend!

Je suis né à Montréal il y a 60 ans de cela. J’ai fait plusieurs voyages à l’étranger, Europe, Asie, USA, Caraïbes, Afrique du Nord, etc. Montréal a des défauts mais je n’imagine pas vivre ailleurs. Tu mentionnes à la fin de la vidéo que tu aimes l’hiver. Il faut faire des activités. Le ski, le patin, la marche en forêt sont magnifiques activités. La plus belle saison est l’automne lorsque la température est plus tempérée, la couleur des feuilles changes pour aller du jaune au rouge vif. C’est l’occasion de rentrer à la maison et de cuisiner des plats réconfortants. C’est aussi l’occasion de vivre plus lentement et sereinement et puis on apprécie l’arrivée du printemps. L’été est magnifique à Montréal. Mon activité favorite est le vélo, en ville ou à la campagne. Tu mentionnes aussi que Montréal est un melting-pot de gens qui proviennent de partout dans le monde. Tous ces gens sont venus ici pour les mêmes raisons c’est à dire la qualité de vie et la possibilité de s’épanouir comme être humain.

I love winter ❤ it's a cozy season

Also, thanks for your video, I have been living in France for the last four years and I miss Montreal. I may try to go this summer, so vibrant! I don't miss so much the snow though, but I live in the Alps, if I miss the snow, I can climb a mountain and I can still do snowboarding although snowboard is not as popular here and the lifts not always snowboard-frienfly. I sometimes weirdly miss the post-snowstorm shoveling ambiance where you get to say hello to your neighbour for the first time since October and the calming effect of being surrounded by so much snow, like if nature took over the city, and it is quieter. Plus it is a good exercise.

I moved to Montreal October 2022. Still struggling with the language and integrating. It's been a bit of a struggle making new connections due to language barrier + working from home. Having said that, I feel like Ive had a lot of personal growth since moving here.

Regarding language barrier, I would like to say that there are many people in Quebec that are far to be fluent in English. I am 48 years old and come from the East of Montreal. In school we had English classes starting in Grade 4 only (9-10 years old) and it was one hour per week... which I believe that was similar for the learning of French in other Canadian provinces. It has improved now, with the kids starting English in Grade 1 (6 years old) but it is still only one hour per week. In other words, to learn English, you cannot rely on school, you need to make additional efforts. So all of those who can be conversional in English did put this extra effort. My English teacher from the HEC told me about research from their linguistic department showing that when people in Quebec meet and have different language backgrounds ( English and French) , the conversation is switched to English in 90% of the cases. I am mentioning this because although it is true that some people may pretend not to speak English when they do (a friend of mine would fit that category) some of them, may indeed not speak a lot of English and be shy about it (plenty of them in the east of Montreal) but most of French Quebecois are happy to switch to English if they think their English is better than the French of the person in front of them. I saw a lot of videos recently of people visiting Montreal not speaking French and mentioning how friendly people are. Even though French is the only official language in Quebec, how many of us had to have meetings in English in Québec with 20 French speakers in the room and only one coworker who speak English? And 5, 10 years later, the meetings are still in English because that one person apparently has not improved. So yes, there are frustrations. Speaking of health system, I never had to wait more than 6 hours (which is already too long), but the trick is to go to English hospitals. Same thing if you need to see a specialist, go on the English side, you will wait less. I know that because I have a sick child who needed to see many different specialists and the wait time was always twice longer on the French sector. The government spending per capita is higher on the English side. This is also true for universities. And then, we have a pretty bad commission de la langue française who will focus on a pasta-gate that nobody really care about while nothing is done to correct far more important institutional problems. Anglo-saxons are privileged. Many of them are so privileged that they are not even aware that although Canada has two official languages, Québec only has one, it is French. Only one province in Canada has a bilingual status: New Brunswick. The privilege is to be able to spend your life in a place where you do not speak the official language without being aware of it! I heard once an American living in Montreal saying that his basic human rights were not respected in Quebec as he could not send his kid to a publicly-founded school in the language of his choice. Who else in the world would think that this is a human right?

Winter time in Montreal is actually great, but there are two problems with it : 1) It's 1-2 months too long. By March/April, it gets really depressing. 2) You usually have 1-2 weeks where temperature drops way too low. -25 Celcius just isn't fun. But for most of it, it's great. It's beautiful, kids have a lot of fun doing snowmen, snowball fights, sliding, skating, etc. Montreal's great nightlife is best during winter. There's a surprising amount of events/activities, both inside and outside.

Hello, toujours intéressant de voir les raisons qui font qu'une personne qui maîtrise parfaitement la langue anglaise s'installe à Montréal. Par contre petite remarque, le québécois peut être dur à saisir pour un français mais le "Je m'ennuie de Montréal" c'est parfaitement français (de France) et pas forcément une nuance québécoise. Après on peut dire que c'est du vieux français ou français soutenu mais par exemple on peut prendre le cas pour un échange épistolaire entre deux amoureux, si l'un écrit à l'autre "Je m'ennuie de vous" c'est une formulation souvent lue et relue et normalement on comprend très bien qu'elle veut dire à l'autre "Vous me manquez." en français courant et pas "Vous m'ennuyez". De ce fait pour moi, quand une personne dit "Je m'ennuie de Montréal" je comprends parfaitement qu'elle veut dire que "Montréal lui manque" et je suis pourtant français.

I live Toronto I love Toronto I love fall and winter once you live about 3 years you will love the change. I also love love Montreal . Canada is beautiful place to live I have lived in USA for 15 years in every way I prefere Canada. I always want to live in Montreal for few months but I dont speak french. I work in medical field may be I can take that advantage thank you for sharing. It is amaizing you have lived in Europe , but after you moved around you chose Montreal. I always want to owen a property some wher in Europe as retirement . Where would you live after you retire ? & why will you choose the place ? Be blessed

Hi Thanks gor sharing this great video and information. Just wondering, where were u Born ? What's your nationality ? Your homeland ?

There is more Doctor per capita in Quebec than in Ontario The Quebec "Joie de vivre" means that Doctors and nurse Work less hours Yeah ! ! ! Also Quebec doctors restrict the amount and level of care Other health care workers can render Yeah ! ! !

Snowboard 🏂 ❤

Sérieusement, avec toutes les différences régionales en France et des autres pays francophones comme la Suisse ou la Belgique, tu n'as jamais pensé que le français au Québec serait différent de la France?

There's also the igloofest in the winter