QC like 3 hours from Montreal. Wouldn’t go unless you have a specific reason. If I had to make a pie chart of where to spend time, 30% Toronto, 70% Montreal - St Lawrence Street.
^ Whatsyourgovt - LinkedIn says it’s your birthday! Wooop woop. Also - agreed. Vancouver’s awesome. Mountains, oceans, and lots of outdoorsy activities. Office hours tend to be on the earlier side to parallel NYC/Toronto - this means you have time to get out and do something at the end of a work day.
I live in Quebec City, the old Quebec City is amazing and has some of the most beautiful spots in Canada. The problem is that it’s quite small and you can pretty much see everything worthy in a day or 2. It’s perfect for a relax romantic weekend but it has no nightlife, so don’t go there if you want to party (Montreal is perfect for that)
You don’t have to speak french to visit, almost everyone under 50 speaks english decently, especially in customer services.
^Whats up persistent! thanks for the shout out - and i knew you would agree with me on vancouver. I’ll add to that list cleanliness (both air and streets), best sashimi, and great people.
The only association for me is Hockey and Niagara Falls. However, regarding high European background I would expect to see more interest for European football by Canadians.
We have some of the best supported MLS franchises and the best team in the league (never thought I’d say that) that pulls in max capacity (30k) a game. There are streets long World Cup parties in parts of Toronto… it’d say it’s better supported in Toronto per capita than most American cities.
Cold but seems favorable place to immigrate for many. I visited Ontario but didn’t like it so much. No coffee bars with terrace on each corner, just Indian selling Hot Dog. Couldn’t smoke everywhere. Alcohol was more expensive than in my place. Good meal was expensive as well.
Although each has it’s biased slant, all pretty much say one thing in common: Canada primarily admits people who will most likely be productive members of society (highly-skilled workers and entrepreneurs/investors), while the US primarily admits relatives of people who are already here regardless of how likely they are to be financially stable once they get here. Not surprisingly, Canadians in general view immigration as a good thing, Americans not so much.
Read the articles. Even the article in liberal NPR says: “Canada knows what it wants: high-skilled workers and business entrepreneurs like Thomas. As such, Canada assigns points to prospective newcomers for job skills, education and language proficiency.” Do they let in a small proportion of “poor” immigrants? Of course, but they are the minority.