[Gunnair]

Never had any problems there. I found it generally friendly as it is ultimately a tourist city, and if you tried some French, you generally received a positive response.

Wouldn't want to live there though.

[Jabberwalker]

but on the South Shore? Forget it.

"... Beautiful Downtown Boucherville" as an old DJ (Ralph Lockwood) used to refer to it ...

[Jabberwalker]

I was a real shock when I spent a few days on St. Pierre, Michelon way back in the 70s. I grew up in Quebec, in the Protestant school system learning my (Parisian) French from Algerians and Sephardic Jews and not every quite understanding everything around me. Suddenly, on St. Pierre, where everyone spoke the French that I had learned, it was as if they'd opened up the curtains an let the sunlight in. I could carry on a coherent conversation without reverting to Fringlish! Magic! Gotta go to Paris, some day.

[uwish]

Quebecois and Parisian are completely different.

[Jabberwalker]

uwish uwish:

Quebecois and Parisian are completely different.

No kidding! Parisian French is what we (Protestants) were taught in Quebec for a couple of generations.

Perverse, eh?

[Count_Lothian]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

uwish uwish:

Quebecois and Parisian are completely different.

No kidding! Parisian French is what we (Protestants) were taught in Quebec for a couple of generations.

Perverse, eh?

I'm curious as to where in montreal you grew up and why did you leave.

Everyone I meet from there who is english has an interesting tale to tell..
up to you i understand privacy so no big whoop if you don;t answer on this thing…

but you have my curiosity.

[Jabberwalker]

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

uwish uwish:

Quebecois and Parisian are completely different.

No kidding! Parisian French is what we (Protestants) were taught in Quebec for a couple of generations.

Perverse, eh?

I'm curious as to where in montreal you grew up and why did you leave.

Everyone I meet from there who is english has an interesting tale to tell..
up to you i understand privacy so no big whoop if you don;t answer on this thing…

but you have my curiosity.

Grew up in the West Island ... lived "In town" for a decade ... attended university, there. I left (towards Ottawa) in the middle of a deep recession(with inflation going bananas) because there were no opportunities for either young Anglos or young any-body-else's there, at the time. I was the last one of my family to leave and pretty near the last of my classmates. My classmates parents mostly stayed as they were trapped there by their real estate (and life IS pretty good, there, if you don't have to earn a living) I have lived there for a bit, since.

(p.s. I left following a woman to Ottawa! ... no, I wasn't stalking her, ya dirty bugger.)

[Count_Lothian]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

I'm curious as to where in montreal you grew up and why did you leave.

Everyone I meet from there who is english has an interesting tale to tell..
up to you i understand privacy so no big whoop if you don;t answer on this thing…

but you have my curiosity.

Grew up in the West Island ... lived "In town" for a decade ... attended university, there. I left (towards Ottawa) in the middle of a deep recession(with inflation going bananas) because there were no opportunities for either young Anglos or young any-body-else's there, at the time. I was the last one of my family to leave and pretty near the last of my classmates. My classmates parents mostly stayed as they were trapped there by their real estate (and life IS pretty good, there, if you don't have to earn a living) I have lived there for a bit, since.

(p.s. I left following a woman to Ottawa! ... no, I wasn't stalking her, ya dirty bugger.)

oki doke this drove me bonkers, for I thought you were someone I knew..roflmao..I think you know how bonkers it drove me.

[Jabberwalker]

About 400,000 people just like me left Quebec between 1976 and about 2000. That's pretty bonkers, considering how well educated and ambitious a lot of us were/are.

[Count_Lothian]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

About 400,000 people just like me left Quebec between 1976 and about 2000. That's pretty bonkers, considering how well educated and ambitious a lot of us were/are.

So , maybe thats why I met so many of you.
Is there a hit me on the head like a dumb guy emoticon around!

[Jabberwalker]

I went to High School with an astronaut and the ex-mayor of a major city (now a provincial cabinet minister) ... as well as a veritable mountain of PhDs.

[Count_Lothian]

I went to high school in order to have sex

[Jabberwalker]

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

I went to high school in order to have sex

I went to university in order to have sex.

[Count_Lothian]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

I went to high school in order to have sex

I went to university in order to have sex.

Ah so cornporn sex is not your cuppa.

[Jabberwalker]

No, I like 20year old girls.

The problem with that is that I'm 57!