You want to move out ? Why don't you go to Sidney, Australia
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darkestfenix
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Wtf are you talking about? Everything written there resembles montreal (except the part about rents because here were building condos like were preparing for a planetary colonisation in Montreal and its 'burbs)
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bridges and tunnels falling apart and have failed
Gangs running public construction
freezing fucking temperatures
french people with inferiority complexes
regressive mentality
minimum 8 hour wait times in hospitals
waiting lists for specialized procedures/tests
lack of GPs
TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX buttfuck no lube TAX
Imported cars? What imported cars?
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I can describe Quebec by copy/pasting that guys list, remove 2 points and add another 50 points.
Fuck them with there +10°C coldest temperature, their beaches and 10 times better lifestyle. Wtf do we have here?
There isnt a single positive thing to say about this province. The aussies can't say the same.
So YES, I believe we live in shithole here in Quebec and the Aussie's have it better.
ADD TO THAT LIST:
bridges and tunnels falling apart and have failed
Gangs running public construction
freezing fucking temperatures
french people with inferiority complexes
regressive mentality
minimum 8 hour wait times in hospitals
waiting lists for specialized procedures/tests
lack of GPs
TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX buttfuck no lube TAX
Imported cars? What imported cars?
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I can describe Quebec by copy/pasting that guys list, remove 2 points and add another 50 points.
Fuck them with there +10°C coldest temperature, their beaches and 10 times better lifestyle. Wtf do we have here?
There isnt a single positive thing to say about this province. The aussies can't say the same.
So YES, I believe we live in shithole here in Quebec and the Aussie's have it better.
lorida
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I'm not convinced about that Australia rant/list. Agreed, things are expensive, but jobs are mostly abundant because the youth is so laid back and lazy. They just want to surf and drink beer.
All I know, is that if I transfer to Sydney with the firm I presently work for, my salary would double. And I'd work less. Win, win.
All I know, is that if I transfer to Sydney with the firm I presently work for, my salary would double. And I'd work less. Win, win.
newschooler
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lol I love this guy's blog:
Yep sounds like montreal!
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The badge you are most likely to see in front of you in traffic is Toyota. The sign of functional retardation. Toyota symbolizes what is wrong with the world today. People who are so devoid of emotion that they go out and buy the automotive equivalent of white goods to ferry themselves between work and their mortgage. The drivers are more often than not old or asian, and absolutely clueless. Following closely in behaviour behind Toyota are Honda, Daewoo and Kia drivers. You'll find yourself stuck behind these floaters in traffic, so take note of:
Zero situational awareness. I had thought it impossible to miss the buzz of 50 motorcycles passing through. You can hear us coming like a phalanx of locusts; traffic parts for us like the seas for Moses. We had some clueless moron just turn onto a major thoroughfare in the middle of a 50 bike stream cutting some unfortunate rider off and scuttling the bikes behind. He had put himself in the midst of a yelling, revving, furious lynch mob. Astounding!
Yep sounds like montreal!
Attorney
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Lol go say that to the hundreds of MDs working at McDonald's because there are simply too many med schools for the amount of residency spots available.
Gotta agree with the first post though, Quebec is a true shithole compared to what aussies consider a "shithole" lol
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catharsis3k
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lol, have you been outside Montreal ? Why do you think Sydney is expensive ? How about California ? Because people WANT TO LIVE THERE. They don't have insanely huge immigration programs where they try to bait ( & switch ) every East-European / African to come, like they do in Quebec.
Beautiful scenery ? Where ? Quebec has no mountains - despite being called Mt-Tremblant, trust me, it's not a mountain. Quebec has no access to any ocean. There are no nice beaches and the weather is crap. Windy and cold and gray.
Nature ? Go to any of the 'lake beaches' in the summer and you get eaten alive by black flies. There are no nice forests with nice big century old trees ( not sure if because of climate or deforestation )
Great Skiing ? lol. You name a slope that takes more than 1 minute to ski/board. And since there are really no mountains, the scenery during that 1 minute is crap.
Montreal probably has a good night life when compared to Toronto where bars close at 2 and restaurants at 10. But in most of the civilized world you can eat a meal at a nice restaurant even after midnight, party until 8AM and drive legally on the highway at 130km/h.
Really the only thing that Quebec has going for itself is cheap education and real estate. But as soon as somebody has decent money, they move away right away. No wonder most of the famous Quebecers/Canadians now live in the US.
And yes, I've already left Quebec and now live elsewhere but I still come to visit my family who unfortunately can't follow me...yet.
logik23
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You seem to be comparing each individual point to the best in the world.
We don't have Miami's beaches, Whistler's mountains, Germany's highways, Gabon's cheap real estate, NYC's sky scrapers, but we have a great mix of it all.
What other city has everything that we have, but better? Vancouver and Toronto are traffic nightmares and you can't afford any place to live, Calgary and Edmonton have no water, Ottawa has no skiing, Winnipeg and Regina are -60 in the winter and it's all natives and all other Canadian cities are irrelevant.
Compare to any US big city and crime
is massive and universities cost tens of thousands per semester.
Compare to Europe and there are no jobs.
We have it pretty sweet here. Best on the planet? No. A shithole? Not even close.
We don't have Miami's beaches, Whistler's mountains, Germany's highways, Gabon's cheap real estate, NYC's sky scrapers, but we have a great mix of it all.
What other city has everything that we have, but better? Vancouver and Toronto are traffic nightmares and you can't afford any place to live, Calgary and Edmonton have no water, Ottawa has no skiing, Winnipeg and Regina are -60 in the winter and it's all natives and all other Canadian cities are irrelevant.
Compare to any US big city and crime
is massive and universities cost tens of thousands per semester.
Compare to Europe and there are no jobs.
We have it pretty sweet here. Best on the planet? No. A shithole? Not even close.
catharsis3k
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Dood, you embarrassed yourself when you included Ottawa in there. Unless of course, Ottawa is some sort of ideal for you.
Go travel some more and stop aiming to just get by.
catharsis3k
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And yeah....what shit scenery...
Lol @ doctored pictures. As it happens I'm a huge outdoors fan and really love mountains. Quebec has no mature pine tree forests or any other sort of nice looking trees. 99% looks like this which is Foret Boreale/Laurentienne ( sorry if I have the name wrong )
4wd_turbo
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Where this shot was taken?And yeah....what shit scenery...
logik23
Legacy Member
Lol @ doctored pictures. As it happens I'm a huge outdoors fan and really love mountains. Quebec has no mature pine tree forests or any other sort of nice looking trees. 99% looks like this which is Foret Boreale/Laurentienne ( sorry if I have the name wrong )
So please tell me, where do you live now? I'm assuming this place has only positives? Or is better than Quebec in every conceivable way because if it's not, it's worst than a "shithole."
darkestfenix
Well-known member
I hate the great outdoors, i dont like snow (and even if i did i rather live 365 days without it and choose to go on a skitrip when i miss it), affordable estate/food is not a problem for someone who is well off, aussies have sceneries of their own, affordable university for 4 years in return for 40 years of pure buttfucking tax every paycheck,
Anything else?
od_man99
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Montreal.
Darkfenix is a wordsmith and he summed it up, but this is what I see.
My dad, came here in 1963 to do a phd, he loved Montreal, he worked in foreign exchange and talks about what he defines "the prosperity years". My uncle was a lead hydro-engineer and worked on huge hydro programs. They made money and settled here. They both agree that things started going sour in the early 80s. Business left, the government grew to new levels and the industrial base started suffering blow back.
Unlike what many here think,my folks were staunch militants for a separated Quebec in the early 80s, but as the movement evolved in a leftist pro-socialist one party system, they saw what was coming. Then came the stagnation years. For almost a decade people lived in a lymbo, was Quebec going to separate or not. This further hurt the economy and translated in more stagnation.
In 1996 another referendum hurt confidence and didnt accomplish the seperation goal. Meanwhile Quebec was dumping on international debt and destroying relations with its neighbors.
The big government mafia system took years to build. The French built it to protect themselves from the English taken over and the English built to protect their assets from the French taken over.
Before you knew you we got stuck with a province if zombies, people that are completely disenchanted with politics and making a difference. The same folk that do 80km/h in the left lane, ppl that don't care about others.
Now the province is in a state of ruin, corruption scandal over corruption scandal.
The new generation doesn't care about this province, hell they don't even know it's history.
Older folks cling to the idea of a functional socialist Quebec but in reality it doesn't exist.
It's an autocratic broken system that needs am overhaul, like a 1990 Honda dx motor with 5000000 miles, you can keep throwing money into it but it'll never run right again if you don't rebuild it.
Darkfenix is a wordsmith and he summed it up, but this is what I see.
My dad, came here in 1963 to do a phd, he loved Montreal, he worked in foreign exchange and talks about what he defines "the prosperity years". My uncle was a lead hydro-engineer and worked on huge hydro programs. They made money and settled here. They both agree that things started going sour in the early 80s. Business left, the government grew to new levels and the industrial base started suffering blow back.
Unlike what many here think,my folks were staunch militants for a separated Quebec in the early 80s, but as the movement evolved in a leftist pro-socialist one party system, they saw what was coming. Then came the stagnation years. For almost a decade people lived in a lymbo, was Quebec going to separate or not. This further hurt the economy and translated in more stagnation.
In 1996 another referendum hurt confidence and didnt accomplish the seperation goal. Meanwhile Quebec was dumping on international debt and destroying relations with its neighbors.
The big government mafia system took years to build. The French built it to protect themselves from the English taken over and the English built to protect their assets from the French taken over.
Before you knew you we got stuck with a province if zombies, people that are completely disenchanted with politics and making a difference. The same folk that do 80km/h in the left lane, ppl that don't care about others.
Now the province is in a state of ruin, corruption scandal over corruption scandal.
The new generation doesn't care about this province, hell they don't even know it's history.
Older folks cling to the idea of a functional socialist Quebec but in reality it doesn't exist.
It's an autocratic broken system that needs am overhaul, like a 1990 Honda dx motor with 5000000 miles, you can keep throwing money into it but it'll never run right again if you don't rebuild it.