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Seattle is massively overpriced. The only thing it has going for it is good tech jobs and beautiful natural setting with access to good skiing and mountains.
Montreal is a bargain for Canada too. The French-speaking part significantly limits housing demand among English-only speakers since the job market in Montreal is terrible for English-only speakers.
Last edited by JMT; 01-03-2022 at 05:49 AM..
Reason: Please keep this about just Seattle and Montreal.
Montreal is going to run away with this because its an old, cosmopolitan, historic city. It’s importance relative to Canada if also way larger than Seattle’s to the US.
Ofcourse, Seattle wins its fair share of categories. It’s hard comparison because the cities are so different and I would debate that those differences are want make each city what they are today. Montreal for it’s culture, urbanity, and history. Seattle for its economy and scenery.
Quebec lags Canada for education level and that has to have a lot of influence in any Seattle vs Montreal comparison. Seattle is a center for intellectual property creation. I’ve done quite a bit of tech business with Quebec companies. There are big provincial subsidies that make it a bargain to offshore tech there. There’s a lot of French-speaking talent but it’s underutilized.
That said, Montreal is a very established major first world city. McGill is a world class university that’s always in the top-25 to top-30 globally. I’d expect the University of Washington to pass it in a couple of decades but Seattle is so new to the intellectual property game that it hasn’t happened yet. It doesn’t have the enormous gap of 30 years ago. I think you can say that about a lot of Seattle infrastructure. It hasn’t quite caught up to the enormous wealth generated by tech.
Last edited by JMT; 01-03-2022 at 05:50 AM..
Reason: Please keep this about just Seattle and Montreal.
Seattle is massively overpriced. The only thing it has going for it is good tech jobs and beautiful natural setting with access to good skiing and mountains.
I've seen you in other threads - why are you constantly negative about Seattle? By American standards its a bustling, relatively urban city with lots of fun neighborhoods, good food and bars, a cool unique local culture, etc.
As I said in a previous post, I think Montreal is on a different level in terms of city amenities, but Seattle offers a ton as well.
Seattle is massively overpriced. The only thing it has going for it is good tech jobs and beautiful natural setting with access to good skiing and mountains.
You forgot salt water access. You can spring ski and go sailing the same day.
Prefer Seattle as a place to live. Montreal is too cold and difficult for anglophones. As a tourist Montreal of course is significantly more interesting as it's quite a bit different from the rest of Northern America.
Food: Montreal
Culture: Montreal
Nightlife/Entertainment: Montrealllll
Economy: Seattle
Scenery: Seattle
Urbanity: Montreal
Tourism: Montreal
Climate: Seattle
Shopping: Montreal
QOL: Montreal
COL: Montreal
Brighter Future: Montreal
Prefer to live: Montreal
Montreal hands down. I like Seattle a lot, but it really can't compare to Montreal... which reminds me of a European City. Seattle wins for scenery. But other that, Montreal you kill it.
I agree with this. Seattle's economy and scenery would be the only advantages imo.
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