On a vraiment de quoi être fier... Letter from a visitior from Australia

Crazy Aussie. Like your shithole is better than OUR shit hole.
First things first: That area she visited is known to be a tad dodgy! Fine, blame it on the immigrants, poor road maintenance and the fact that the machines emit "carninogenic fumes" What the fuck ever!

You cannot judge one small part of town to the whole of Montreal. It's like saying that all Australians are named Bruce, drink Foster beer and drive big rigs! Montreal is far from perfect, but I wonder in what type of "utopic" society that you live in.... Get out of Parc-X and cross l"Acadie, perhaps you will feel more "at home"... I mean, you flew over 13 000 KM's and you are to lazy to get out of a 3 KM district... Pffft... East bound, little Italy, West Bound, TMR, South Bound:Mile End, North Bound: Ville St-Laurent.

I call this woman's B/S and her lazy Aussie ass.

My 2 cents.
 
Razz said:
Everyone in the world could write that, MTL and QUE won't change, it'll always stay the same, they don't care.

The best thing for you and anyone to do IS TO LEAVE QUEBEC, it might be easier said then done if you have a job and house and all, but nothing worth doing is easy. Say you lost your house and job tomorrow and found a new job, say in Manitoba, You would tell yourself "Wow, I should've left Quebec a long time ago". Once you're out of the sh*t hole, you'll realise how much of a sh*t hole it is. Or in this case, this guy was already out of one and came to a sh*t hole.
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Vas y a f@cking winnipeg .. I hope you like shoveling ... you have a nice expedition parka good for -70c ... and night life amazing over there ... after a nice skidoo ride ... spend the night buttfucking your cousin
 
Laval is bigger then Canberra, where she is from. I wouldn't take her comments seriously considering she doesn't know what it is to live in a major urban environment.
 
she is absolutely right and there is no excuses. I've personally been to Australia. including Canberra. It is not even comparable. every thing is so clean over there. people walk on the street barefoot and their feet dont even get dirty. how many of you defending Montreal and bashing Australia has ever been to Australia?
 
lord_galathon said:
I'm surprised by the amount of people defending Montreal and who don't live NOR work here.

Montreal can be beautiful, but lots of areas are terrible slums. BTW, the winter excuse? Not valid. They have the same winter (worse) in Quebec city but their roads are clean.

When's the last time you saw a road vacuum on a boulevard? Why do you think that every time we travel by car on one of these "boulevards" we run into shrapnel lifted up by the preceding vehicles? Highways are worse.

I visited Ottawa for a hockey tournament in February, middle of the winter and the roads there didn't have any debris on them, YES they had some potholes, but they don't have the GRAVEL we have all over ours, there was no rubbish everywhere.

Downtown Montreal you can't walk two blocks without some hobo harassing you for money, and it's not just change, they actually ask for 5$ now. Inflation I guess.

Wherever you go there are groups of people asking for different things, signatures (and donations) to save water for the invalid whales on the island of Whales.

And those are just the people who are either begging or doing some type of "social" work.

Walking on the sidewalks is an incredible experience, if one is not careful they WILL twist an ankle. They're uneven at best. There are holes everywhere, cracked concrete, rubbish and other detritus.

Then there's the interminable roadwork. Avenue du Parc has been "orange" since the late 1990s, Sherbrooke is a continuous inferno of roadwork and most if not all highways into and out of Montreal are fucked up.

Bicycles? GALORE! Everywhere, not in orderly fashion on a few cycling roads no, they're all over the place, like seagulls.

Lots of pedestrians are uneducated morons who don't even bother checking for cars, they just cross whatever street, wherever they are, at whatever time.

But my favorite part of working downtown is when each workday ends and I get to GET THE FUCK OUT to go home, OFF THE ABOMINABLE ISLAND of docteur fucking Moreau.

Side note about the hobos, we've starting having some in Ile Perrot now, they're like zombies, I was asked for "spare change" at the Pincourt mall a few weeks ago, by a lady in her 60s or so. WTF?
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You pretty much described almost every city in the world.

Also, on my street downtown they sweep the roads 4 times a week(twice a week per side)

Im also gonna say that typically when I read shit like this and that Australian bitch, its always people that haven't really travelled much and lack the capability to make valid comparisons.
 
Dubweiser said:
You pretty much described almost every city in the world.

Also, on my street downtown they sweep the roads 4 times a week(twice a week per side)

Im also gonna say that typically when I read shit like this and that Australian bitch, its always people that haven't really travelled much and lack the capability to make valid comparisons.
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Off the top of my head, I've visited the following cities:

-Milano
-Verona
-Paris
-Havana
-Amsterdam
-Kingston and Montigo Bay
-Monaco and Monte Carlo

Of course, Toronto, Quebec city, Miami, Philadelphia, NYC (in the 1990s before 9.11) Buffalo, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit (2004) and a few other American cities. Sadly I've not been to San Francisco, it's on my bucket list.

The only ones that come close to Montreal today in dirt and overall impression of BS are Paris (French... coincidence?) and 1970s Milano, they've cleaned it up now.

HAVANA WAS CLEANER THAN MONTREAL. Only difference? Instead of squirrels and stray cats you had chickens and the occasional goats, also it smelled worse, but the roads, where they have roads, were nicer.
 
logik23 said:
Carcinogenic smoke coming out of road working machinery? So their bulldozers emit flowers and turtle doves?
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The diesel motors on our equipment isn't properly maintained, those cats need to be changed regularly, but the Mafia companies don't need to live up to environmental standards.
 
od_man99 said:
The diesel motors on our equipment isn't properly maintained, those cats need to be changed regularly, but the Mafia companies don't need to live up to environmental standards.
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It costs about 20k for a new motor in that kind of machinery. We don't need higher expenses.
 
-Mike- said:
On peut pas dire qu'il est aller dans le plus beau spot non plus..


Comme si j'irais a Détroit pour juger de la qualité de vie des américains....
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Villeray/petite italie c'est pas mal nice comme quartier..
Jvois pas le problème.

Oui la ville est pas mal fucked up mais quand j'ai des amis d'ailleurs qui visitent Mtl pour la premiere fois, ils capotent sur montreal!
 
The worse road/street conditions I have ever seen was... Manhattan. And some big streets, too. Manhattan is hardly a hell hole. That lady could have walked around a little more and visited better places, for sure.

That said, Montreal, for the last 10-15 years sucks donkey balls. Nothing is happening that wasn't there 20 years ago. Inertia all over the place and people think it going to get better?

Puh-lease.
 
I would like to say this since i have also family in Australia ( melbourne ) that have visited me in montreal 3 years ago the first thing my uncle said to me from the airport to downtown ( around 11 pm ) what's wrong with the streets
and he said that for the 2 weeks he was here the streets in montreal are bad.
 
J'aime pas mtl mais elle exagere pas rien qu'a peu pret. De la a pas vouloir sortir le bébé pour une petite promenade, il y a quelque chose qui ne tourne pas rond dans sa tête.
 
Moi j'adore ma ville, je suis née ici, je vis ici et j'y travaille, malgré que c'est dla marde souvent, j'habiterais nulpart d'autre.
 
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