Utterly random Montreal brain droppings

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Originally Posted by Wigs

I've heard, but don't have data that a not insignificant amount of young people from France have discovered Montreal in the past 5-10 years as a unique alternative to Paris. While they are very different and Paris is a "world class city" multiples in size to Montreal, Paris is still stuck in their old ways.

Whereas in Montreal almost no one cares if you're openly LGBT, sport wildly different coloured hair, tattoos, piercings. People can be who they want and not what society expects of them.

When young French nationals get interviewed they usually cite France or Paris as not as accepting of people drifting from the "norm" and that Old French culture can feel stifling if not almost suffocating in comparison to Montreal, which is the creative capital of Canada and people are encouraged to discover their own path.

TL;DR There's more Liberté in Montreal than Paris.

In a way, the "zeitgeist" of Montreal is more Berlin than Paris.