It is not that I want to star a city vs. city war, but one thing what people do not realize is that Montreal is VERY dense and a lot of the pictures we see just don't do it just. If you look @ the photo below, the city isn't just highly developed around the downtown core, but 3 floor residential projects tend to stretch across the entire city. Look more @ the right, because the left shows Westmount which is a super posh neighbourhood.