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[dzuunmod]

Vincent heard the results of a poll over the weekend which said that if given the opportunity, 30 per cent of French Canadians/quebecois (not sure which it was) would choose to switch their mother tongue to English. That said, how about you?

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[dzuunmod]

I assume the accomodations he's talking about are in the neighbourhood most people call the McGill Ghetto - just east of the campus. It's a nice, typical Montreal neighbourhood in some respects. Old homes and duplexes and triplexes and narrow streets. It's not a bad area in that it's right next to where you'd be working and it's pretty handy to all sorts of nightlife on St-Laurent Blvd. The downside is that it's populated mostly by current McGill students. Many of them are young Americans and *ahem* Ontarians who aren't used to being allowed to drink, and so the partying can get to be a little much at times.

During the summer, living near McGill is a joy, but during the school year, there's lots of noise complaints about loud music and partying. The apartments themselves are perfectly nice, though.

As for the language thing, it can be a bit of a downer if you don't have a job. If you're out of work in Montreal and your French skills aren't up to snuff, you're screwed. But if you have a job that doesn't require French, you can get by very easily in Montreal without speaking the language. The only time that it might come to be an issue is if you have to deal with the government. Usually, government employees are bilingual and willing to switch to English but there are some who're unilingual/bitchy.