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Montreal - city of cafes, cafes, shops of all sorts and from all over the world. Montreal - city of festivals coming from Jazz Festival to Comedy Festival to several film festivals.

It wasn'testosterone always individuals. My parents arrived in 1955. Not a single cafe, not a single teas house, not a single pub or wine club. Not only wasn'big t there a single terrace where one could sit, have a cup of coffee and enjoy looking close to, it was actually illegal for a restaurant to have the outdoor space. There wasn'n even a pizza place - not that my parents themselves knew about pizza at that time.

What had been available? Taverns that were for men only. Woolworth'utes lunch counters. Steak dining places and smoked beef places. Quick coffee. Strange places called A and W.

One year later - 1956. The Hungarian revolution. Then the Communist crackdown and the flight of thousands and thousands of Hungarians.

That ended up being ab muscles little beginning of change for Montreal - because a few of the refugees ended up in Montreal. 1 popped the first cafe, Cafe Prague - a place where 1 could hang out over a espresso, even play chess. Other Hungarians opened tiny restaurants with inexpensive European cooking - the Mazurka (still close to, and still because good while actually) on Prince Arthur Street, PamPam's on Stanley, and several others. Smaller changes, but very important.

The 1960s. The hippie era, the revitalization with the downtown regions (the shift away through the suburbs), the war in Vietnam leading to a great influx of draft dodgers and Vietnam war veterans. Often, there had been Expo 67, a world exposition - which left Montreal with La Ronde, still a very popular amusement park which keeps receiving brand new thrills, new rides year after year.

Back to the 1960s. Prince Arthur (property already to the Mazurka - cheap and delicious supper place) became house to much more and more dining establishments - Greek, Vietnamese - and often the center of every single one kinds of alternative boutiques (comfy Birkenstock sandals, used apparel, Indian imports).

Soon there were an area called The Plateau - more and much more consuming places, boutiques, nightspots, clubs.

An important law was actually finally changed - one could have a good outdoor terrace. Montrealers and visitors loved the chance to sit outside, people watch, eat, enjoy.

The 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and on the present.

The changes kept arriving, a lot of in the same direction. Just about all toward Montreal, The western world devoid of the jetlag - and far more. Because more and much more Europeans were returning, loving Montreal'utes cosmopolitan atmosphere, the multi-cultural diversity, and their own pleasant bilingualism.

Often, Montreal stayed pretty well unchanged in one particular important way. It was actually one particular with the safest metropolitan areas in North America in the 1950s - and that is unchanged. It will be still one of the safest towns, where one particular can walk almost everywhere at any time of night or evening.

What will there be today? There are museums, festivals, conferences - and so many ongoing things. Montreal provides end up getting a city of villages - with a village being a little area with lots of eating places, shops, nightlife. The Plateau. The Quartier Latin - or in English, the Latin Quarter. Mile Conclusion. The Saint Denis area. The Golden Mile - which is the old downtown area. Outdated Montreal. The Monkland Village.

And furthermore the Gay Village. In terminology of valuing range, Montreal were proud to host the first gay Olympics in 2006 - and participants (who wore tags finding out them) were warmly welcomed by Montrealers.

When for Montreal, city of villages, even the suburbs are developing villages. So, for example, the suburb, Pierrefonds, has the Pierrefonds Village.

Montreal also offers hundreds of malls for those who like malls, but a lot more and a lot more Montrealers are heading for their favorite villages - though the malls are extremely encouraged, certain during the leading and coldest times.

Montreal additionally has a great excellent public travel system (including a metro) and miles of indoor connections, specially downtown.

There'ersus a lot else, of course -

this kind of as, in the summer, weekly fireworks displays coming from countries around the world that attract hundreds of thousands of people;

4 large universities, a couple of English and only two French;

a mountain in the midsection in the city, Mont Royal, that seems to have stayed undeveloped as gives miles of walking, biking and in winter, cross-land winter sports;

the Lachine Canal, a revitalized area which once again provides miles of walking and roller-blading almost all just how coming from Earlier Montreal outward to Lachine, LaSalle and Dorval, with dining places in some parts across the way;

Park Lafontaine right between the Plateau and the Latin Quarter, with it's small lake where 1 can go rowing, it's petting zoo, and its performances in the summer months (ballet, music).

The list goes on and on. Concerts, theatre, ballet, opera, touring Broadway shows.

Montreal is another big arts cash. It'utes an important center of special negative effects for videos - and offers a film industry of it's individual. Montreal has the highest attention of artists in Canada - graphic artists, fashion developers, musicians coming from jazz to alternative to pop, as well as visual artists.

People come for business opportunities, to produce businesses locally, and to see about import or export possibilities.

As well as not far coming from Montreal may be the Quebec countryside, the Eastern Townships (l'Estrie) to the east, the Laurentians to the north, and the Monteregie to the southern.

People choose Montreal for a lot of kinds of causes. Pals coming from all around the US border drive upwards for a weekend to stock up on their favourite herbal teas, in addition to to consume a little bit of the nightlife. Other folks - primarily one particular-time Montrealers - fly in from as far as LA or even The european union for their most loved smoked beef sandwich at Schwartz' - which were open up when my parents came to Montreal, and is truly still thriving today. Then there's hockey season. Nearly all like the reasonable prices.

For the past couple of years, we have been doing nearby vacation house rentals - you can see our site at holiday-trip-rentals-plus.com - and have found the answers to "What brings you the following?" since varied since the people.

What most helps make Montreal attractive? Different people will offer different answers. I'm one who grew upwards there and chose not to depart through the height of the separatist movement, though We are much more English-speaking than French-speaking, and though many English-speaking people left. But question all of us, what can make Montreal so attractive to us? I locate it hard to pinpoint what helps Montreal special to us.

It'ersus a largely helpful city. That's important to us. I love the friendliness of the neighborhoods. Montreal is actually furthermore a single with the safest metropolitan areas. Also important.

So much is truly happening right here, through mainstream (big pop concerts) to alternative (tiny cafes with spoken term readings), coming from outdoor (the lengthy eco-friendly stretches along the Lachine canal) to indoor (malls, museums, and so much else). That is truly a single in the most critical things for us. Something for everyone.

For many of us, it's even far more. Montreal, European union without having the jetlag. It's home.

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