Wow, that's really good to know. Montreal really looked nice when I looked at some of the places online. Thanks very much for the reply. But isn't GTA really bad right now? I don't want to step foot in GTA lol.
Is To Wise To Move To Montreal?
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I want to live in a VERY liberal non-american city. There are some great places in europe too (but expensive lets forget that for now)... Plus I am a city boy, I don't like the suburbs. I dont want to have to take my car to take a shit...I like walking or biking.
Therefore there is only Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, I could probably enjoy all 3. But Montreal has the lowest cost of living of the 3 and is the prettiest imho. Yes GTA and Vancouver are too expensive but Montreal is slowly catching up.
a side not with the insane greedy rent increases
just because they can nobody to check them
many people who are renters and descent people they don't advertise
or they would be swarmed
so find a neighbourhood you like and do a lot of walking
and by word of mouth you can find good deals everywhere.
Not really, recently there was more people leaving Ontario for Quebec than the other way around.
Un nombre record d’Ontariens ont déménagé au Québec
Un total de 7085 se sont installés dans la Belle Province lors du deuxième trimestre de 2022, une première en 32 ans.
Why? Housing costs, mostly.
I would be cautious to buy into the language laws hysteria because it's just that : hysteria.
I am very affected by the language laws as an anglophone in Quebec. So I'm speaking from experience. Also I said home provinces, lots of people have family taking them in.Not really, recently there was more people leaving Ontario for Quebec than the other way around.
Un nombre record d’Ontariens ont déménagé au Québec
Un total de 7085 se sont installés dans la Belle Province lors du deuxième trimestre de 2022, une première en 32 ans.www.ledevoir.com
Why? Housing costs, mostly.
I would be cautious to buy into the language laws hysteria because it's just that : hysteria.
I'd be curious to hear how you're actually affected at all beyond the realm of perception.
And I'm not sure I understand what you mean in your 2nd sentence. Maybe you can't read French but the article pointed out that more people actually left Ontario for Quebec so no, Anglos are not "leaving in droves" right now. That's a gross exaggeration.
I'm not really into discussing how I'm affected to someone talking to me with that tone, you seem pretty dedicated to debate my actual lived experience, not into it. Take care.
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if you don't like to be challenged on your experiences; don't mention them.
I really doubt the Office de la langue française is harrassing you to make sure you talk French to your clients.
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If you have retired or are close to retirement the access to medical care should be of primary concern. If you move to Canada, you may lose Part B of your Medicare. You will still have Part A, but this only covers hospitals in the US I believe. If you have an emergency and are admitted to a Canadian hospital you would pay the full price unless your private insurance in the US covers international care. However, if you are Canadian by birth or manage to obtain the residence permit (i.e., officially emigrate to Canada), then you will have access to medical care in Canada on par with other population.
when you say 'east coast' do you mean east coast of canada or us? i thought you were already canadian
I assumed he meant the Maritime provinces. Now I am confused.when you say 'east coast' do you mean east coast of canada or us? i thought you were already canadian
He hasn't changed anything. It's a bill proposal, nothing's been done yet. Hold your horses lol it's not going through. No way it's going to happen.
Quebec tenants won't let lease transfers go without a fight ⋆ The Breach
“Tenants are a massive, massive population. If you get them pissed off, they have an impact.”
breachmedia.ca
His housing minister is a realtor and investor with lots of conflict of interests.
Quebec's ethics commissioner launches probe into housing minister
Quebec housing minister lobbied by real-estate business partner
Quebec housing minister met with another former business partner at lobbying event
Reported real estate flipping has opposition blasting Quebec housing minister
Watch the pushback... It's already started. People are pissed.
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Whixh government started pulling government out of social housing? Hint: it was a Conservative government. Specifically Mulroney. It's not like the housing situation is a sudden phenomenon. It's a long time coming and blaming Trudeau as the sole culprit is just convenient for you. But the reality is far far more complex than that.
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By the way, I'm reading this book (The tenant class) about the crisis. Fascinating. This is the author discussing it.
This probably deserves its own thread..
This probably deserves its own thread..
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I am against social housing because it benefits a select few. Single people also need affordable housing, not just families with 4+ children or refugees. Social housing means taking money away from single people to redistribute it to the preferred group that the government thinks deserves the subsidized housing. This means ultimately more taxes. You cannot tax a nation into prosperity. That is like being in a bucket and trying to lift yourself in the bucket, it cannot work. This would not even be necessary if the government stopped with its mass immigration policy.
Funny you mention Mulroney, he is the second worst prime minister after Trudeau. He is a big time globalist. He was the one that started the immigration investor program. In a nutshell this allowed rich people (mainly from Hong Kong) to buy immigration papers by lending $400,000 to the government which is in 1986 currency values and have a net worth of $800,000 in 1986 values. The program was terminated in 2014. Guess why Vancouver has the most highest rents and most expensive housing market? Thanks to Mulroney. The government purposely brought rich people to make money and those rich people used real estate as an investment portfolio.
Here is the link to the program -> https://www.exeo.ca/blog/invest/canada-immigrant-investor-program-what-happened/
Mulroney also was the one that privatized our only pharmaceutical producing company and it got sold to some company in France. So when covid happened Canada was not able to produce its own vaccines.
Here is the link -> https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/11/08/Canada-Public-Lab-Life-Saving-Drugs/
Mulroney also started the GST and he started the North American Free Trade agreement which enabled the outsourcing of work. Before most things were made in Canada, USA, Japan then after Mulroney things were being made in China. Although the cost of production went down significantly and the quality went down, prices went up.
And lastly Mulroney is worse then Trudeau for this, he said Canada should bring in 1 million immigrants per year. He is mad. Multiple people would be sharing studio apartments just to make ends meet. Rents would be so high and so will the cost of houses. Reality is only 8% of immigrants settle out of the big cities. The population is needed in the northern sparsely populated regions, not in the big cities like Toronto or Montreal. Mulroney is a madman. I do not talk about him because he is long gone, not because it is convenient. Currently Trudeau is in power. So you see whether it be a Liberal or a Conservative, they are all the same.
Increasing immigration to boost population? Not so fast.
Influential voices are calling for a boost in migration. But in a post-pandemic economy, will the stage be set for newcomers to flourish?
policyoptions.irpp.org
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Sorry, when I said the East Coast I meant the Maritime provinceswhen you say 'east coast' do you mean east coast of canada or us? i thought you were already canadian
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Maybe he should consider moving to Russia. Ha!Ha!
How about a shoutout for the women of Montreal? The working women here and the women you see on the street every day, in summer anyway. From all over the world. My private time with a québécoise ~25 years older than most of the women here is the most intense & sensual I have ever experienced. So good I wondered if she was a professional in another life. An attractive mature woman that knows her body & how to use it is SAF (Sexy As F…) and the weekend doesn’t cost $6000. They’re intelligent & make their own money.
I could post pictures of a dozen local woman that would do more than turn your head on the street. I’m not saying it’s easy.
You can complain that rents have gone up buy they are 1/3 of NYC or Boston. As for the politics here, the CAQ seems whacked and shortsighted. The French thing makes it interesting. It sucks for business but I’m trying to learn it. Fix the damn roads. They’re worse than the Bronx. I don’t know enough to understand the intense Trudeau hatred but Trump is looking for votes should you want to move south. Hoping Canada doesn’t go full on Autocracy like the GOP is pushing. I got used to Democracy and like it.
I could post pictures of a dozen local woman that would do more than turn your head on the street. I’m not saying it’s easy.
You can complain that rents have gone up buy they are 1/3 of NYC or Boston. As for the politics here, the CAQ seems whacked and shortsighted. The French thing makes it interesting. It sucks for business but I’m trying to learn it. Fix the damn roads. They’re worse than the Bronx. I don’t know enough to understand the intense Trudeau hatred but Trump is looking for votes should you want to move south. Hoping Canada doesn’t go full on Autocracy like the GOP is pushing. I got used to Democracy and like it.
For many many years, I have thought about moving to Montreal.
And it came down to 2 things blocking for me. Job & speaking French.
Requirements of speaking french: Having hung out with SPs and having other hobbies in Montreal, I have made friends. However, it is still very difficult for me to hang out with them and really "belong" to Montreal because everyone defaults to French in their everyday conversations. They always have to switch to English for me, so I would never be a true Montrealer unless I got fluent in French. I'm sure if I ever moved, I would get fluent, but it would take a lot of time. Since you already speak fluent French, I don't see that being a problem.
Now for problem number two, job: Very few high paying jobs in Montreal, and they simply pay so much less than everywhere else. When looking into moving here, I have spoken to colleagues and contacts. If I were to transfer to Montreal with the same job, I would have to take a 50% salary cut, and I'm told my bonus cut would be well into the 6 figures, so that is a hard NO. Even with the adjusted cost of living factored in, it is a huge loss. If you make about the same in Montreal vs where you are from, and adjusted for cost of living is similar, then this is not a problem either.
If neither of those are a problem, I would move to Montreal in a heartbeat.
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