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Speaking of weather, I used to post on a Canadian centric forum and Quebecers would complain loudly anytime a heatwave went their way. Having to walk around in muggy upper 80s/lower 90s is not fun stuff. Seattle gets heatwaves, but at least they're usually dry.
Montreal is the prettier setting most of the year, but when the weather is right you gotta give it to Seattle
Food: Montreal
Culture:Montreal
Nightlife/Entertainment: Montreal
Economy: Seattle
Scenery: Seattle
Urbanity:Montreal
Tourism: Montreal
Climate: Montreal
Shopping: Meh
QOL: Tie
COL: Montreal
Brighter Future: Montreal
Prefer to live: Montreal
Prefer to visit: Montreal
I'd probably give Montreal food, culture, nightlife, cost of living and urbanity. And probably the rest to Seattle (except for tourism, not sure what that means that isn't already covered in the other categories).
I like both cities a lot, but if forced to choose to live in one would pick Seattle based on the economy & climate. Montreal is COLD, and I grew up in New England.
That said, Montreal does have a charm & coziness that you would never find stateside (or in non-French Canada, for that matter).
Memory Lane: when I was a teenager in the mid 90's we would go up there for weekends ("Mom, we're going skiiing in Vermont with so and so's parents"), and it was this amazing den of vice. Rue St. Catherine was the seediest main thoroughfare I've ever seen, and it was wonderful. You could find trouble anywhere you looked for it, in the best possible way. I went back a few years ago with my wife and couldn't believe it. Everything has been cleaned up (well, except for the most famous of Rue St. Catherine establishments that shall remain nameless). I didn't see hordes of drunk 16-year-old kids from the Boston suburbs, so I'm guessing that was by design. Ah, Montreal.
Speaking of weather, I used to post on a Canadian centric forum and Quebecers would complain loudly anytime a heatwave went their way. Having to walk around in muggy upper 80s/lower 90s is not fun stuff. Seattle gets heatwaves, but at least they're usually dry.
Montreal is the prettier setting most of the year, but when the weather is right you gotta give it to Seattle
Do most people in Montreal have AC? That’s what makes heat more unbearable in Seattle - most people don’t have it. And yes- normally it’s a dry heat here in the summer which will cool off somewhat at night except when there’s smoke, which sort of acts as a heat blanket.
Is it better to have a lot of hills so you're always on or near one, or one big hill?
For the most part I’d say the hips present in both Seattle and Montreal are not really large enough to have some recreational value. Mont Royal is generally a very nice park though.
Nobody is taking a hiking trip to a 300 foot hill covered in 0.2 acre plots of duplexes or whatever
For all of the flack that Mount Royal seems to be getting here (and I get it -- it's a hill, and not so much a mountain, and absolutely does NOT compare to the mountains of Washington State) one thing that does stand out about it, is the views you can get once you hike to its lookout spots...
Speaking of weather, I used to post on a Canadian centric forum and Quebecers would complain loudly anytime a heatwave went their way.
The same people who complain about the cold and snow in the winter!
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