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4. People. The people here look a lot like New Yorkers. There's a lot Italian-looking, or general southern Europe/Mediterranean-looking people here, with a healthy admixture of Middle Eastern-looking people, a decent amount of Asians and what I presume are Hatians and/or Africans of some sort. And an OK amount of more northerly European-looking people. If I didn't know better I'd swear I was in Manhattan's Upper West Side, or something. The only difference from New York is that there aren't many Indians/Pakistanis (which is also a big difference from other Canadian cities I've been to). I saw a few of them, but not too many.
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I wonder how many of the Italian looking people are Italian-Montrealers and how many are people originally from Morroco, Algeria, Tunisia, and other North African countries.
There’s a lot of West Africans and Central Africans in Montreal now too. Quebec’s Francophone immigration requirements could very well be the reason why Canada wins the World Cup one day.
Montreal is definitely my favourite city to visit in Canada, I’m just not sure I could ever handle actually living there since my French is quite poor. The good thing is, now, Canadians who went to high school elsewhere in Canada now qualify for free intensive French classes… which wasn’t the case before.
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