I moved to Montreal last summer and spring, after years in Seattle and Berkeley. Then I gave up and moved back to Berkeley.
Pros:
+ Bitcoin Embassy Montreal!
+ Really cheap hipster life
+ Wonderful cheap food
+ Walkable city
+ A French culture that values living, parks, & community!
+ Beautiful women, and lots of them
+ There actually is a tech scene! Woah!
+ It's different
Cons:
- Less edgy culture. Less individual extreme boundary pushing.
People move in largish herds of friends.
- Racist against people who speak English. Language racism.
- Corrupt government
- McGill and Concordia are nowhere near as good as
Berkeley and Stanford, and not even UW.
Overall, it has a culture that supports working for a startup or doing tech contracting work, but it lacks that revolutionary west-coast culture that I like to live inside of to take a stab at doing something breakthrough.
And language racism really sucks! On the upside, it's a great way for a white american male to experience being a discriminated minority.
Pros:
Cons: Overall, it has a culture that supports working for a startup or doing tech contracting work, but it lacks that revolutionary west-coast culture that I like to live inside of to take a stab at doing something breakthrough.And language racism really sucks! On the upside, it's a great way for a white american male to experience being a discriminated minority.