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According to Icepop it's expensive. :sweat:Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
How come it's so cheap?
In my opinion everything in Montréal is crazy-cheap! It's all relative I suppose, but Montréal is known to have the cheapest cost of living of any major city in North America.... So I guess I am "right". ;)
where I live, the rent is about $1000 Australian, which is roughly $900 Canadian.
After I've studied, I'm thinking of moving somewhere, and Canada is the place I think I might go. I'm asking about the music scene because I plan on being a part time musician, so the more lively the better :) .
Can you get by in montreal without any knowledge of french?
I think it's bilingual but Sggg would have to say, or icepop. Isn't it illegal to make a right hand turn on a red light in Quebec?
Yeh, you'll have no problem. I don't speak French that well. I can read/write fairly well and I can talk about "simple things" but I can't really have a deep conversation with it. Regardless though, I hardly ever use French and I live in one of the most Francophone areas of the city. Almost everyone speaks English... and on the occasions when someone doesn't its not that big of a deal. :)Quote:
Originally posted by arjue
Can you get by in montreal without any knowledge of french?
Not anymore. Now it's only on the Island of Montréal.Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
Isn't it illegal to make a right hand turn on a red light in Quebec?
I do.Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
You don't drink beer with a fine dinner.
Sounds like homo food to me...Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
if you go in to a restaurant and order their shrimp and lobster soppressata with radish salad and basil oil, then ask for a beer, you'd look like a fool.
You don't know what you're talking about. You're not going to chug MGD at La Tour D'Argent, no, and no, you probably wouldn't order beer there, in general.Quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
Biggest piece of shit yet. Ask your parents, ask your boss, ask your neighbours. Adults drink beer, but beer is not palitable. You don't drink beer with a fine dinner.
It has nothing to do with me shaving. It's common sense, if you go in to a restaurant and order their shrimp and lobster soppressata with radish salad and basil oil, then ask for a beer, you'd look like a fool.
Again, my point wasn't to downgrade beer, but the, AGAIN, if you wanted to drink something with taste, beer isn't the option.
However, there are many, many beers that are 'tasteful' in the sense of being both both richly flavorful and aesthetically wise. You can drink some white wines, Alsatians, German rieslings, with many asian foods, but often beer is far more appropriate and is a better accompaniment. A Pilsner Urquell will match good curries at least as well as a wine.
There are a many beers with flavors as nuanced as a majority of the wines any of us can afford to drink on a regular basis. Anchor makes a few of them, Budvar, Pilsner Urquell, I dunno, it's foolish even trying to list all the beers that are at least as suitable as table wine for a "fine dinner".
If you have to choose between great wine and great beer to drink with most foods, yes, you'll choose great wine. However, remember that it's very rare that you get a chance to drink truly great wine.
Also, if you're going to pull the snobbish aesthete thing in the future, dismiss quality levels, not entire food/beverage types. IE, "People who drink Miller Lite are idiots" or "Men should never drink sweet cocktails" is okay, but "Beer is never appropriate with fine food" or "Frying is an inferior cooking technique" is dumb. You won't know enough, really, ever, to dismiss an entire category of drink - I may hate vodka or something like that, but I know that it's appropriate at times.
Plus, once you move from pablum into the realm of strongly, deeply flavored foods and beverages (the difference between Boone's and Le Chateau Yquem, Natty Light and Anchor Liberty Ale, a Chicken McNugget and real fried chicken), then basically any combination is appropriate.
Tricky business, being stuck-up, I know.
I'd be all for that, but I'm already coming to Montreal (Aug 15-18) to watch the Expos; I will have no money after that (Beer and such).Quote:
Originally posted by icepop
Um, so who's up for a TNL cross-Canada roadtrip? :p
About Beer: I don't particularly like the taste of beer. I'd prefer a fruity drink (read into that 88 and no CDN show for you ;)). Beer is an aquired taste, though. For instance, if I have to order beer it's either Strongbow or Keiths.
I don't drink much either - but when I do I also prefer something fruity or girly. :p
Arjue, another thing to mention about the cost of living in Montréal is that you definitely won't need to have a car and all of the expenses that go along with it. There is excellent mass transportation with the Métro and the busses. We don't have a car and never need one. :)
Brisco, go Expos! Who are they playing?
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San Fransico!
88: Check your PMs.
Ha! you fa...Quote:
Originally posted by Brisco Bold
About Beer: I don't particularly like the taste of beer. I'd prefer a fruity drink
...tastic person.Quote:
Originally posted by Brisco Bold
read into that 88 and no CDN show for you