Why does everyone love Montreal?

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by flipv

I think Montreal is an overrated provincial backwater that many of you elevate because your cultural bandwidth is so narrow you barely know what's out there.

You have a very high opinion of your fellow forumers, don't you?

[north 42]

What a tool!

[flipv]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

You have a very high opinion of your fellow forumers, don't you?

How low can you go? Opinion/respect is earned.

[Razor]

Originally Posted by flipv

Montreal just isn't special, sorry. Why am I supposed to think it is? Because bagels? LOL

I know you're stuck in Ottawa (my condolences, 4 years of my life were quite enough), and are likely glad you can experience something more 'exotic' 150km down the road, but that's exactly why I'm laughing at you. That's as far as your cultural bandwidth goes.

mmmm

Yes I'm stuck in Ottawa with my belly quite full and a fairly decent life, so I'll take my misfortune.

I'm trying to come up with a timeline of your own personal story, and correct me if I'm too far off will you?

You had a government job in Belgrade (Don't most people work in government in Eastern Europe).
You have some sort of degree..Maybe a banking or economics obtained via a free education system.

A terrible war broke out forcing you to come to Canada as a refugee.
First you came to Montreal, but there was large language barrier to overcome, and at the same time you became disgruntled after learning that the credentials you worked so hard to obtain in your homeland weren't recognized, so unfortunately some up-grading a re-testing were required.

You drove cab for awhile to make ends meet, and at some point made a move to Ottawa thinking that perhaps a smaller city would help in your transition. Besides, a lot of your fellow countrymen lived here in Ottawa already.
Again, you just couldn't make headway here because people failed to recognize how special and superior you were because you once had government position, and that you are one of the privileged holding a University degree from Belgrade. People should recognize you for it, but they just don't..It frustrates you to no end.

Subsequently, you move to Toronto and alas, you found your home..A bank hires you as an entry level financial advisor at 35 hours a week (salary), and you are just thankful that you don't have to drive a cab anymore..Damn you Montreal!..Damn you Ottawa!

It really is a familiar story

[flipv]

Originally Posted by Razor

mmmm

Yes I'm stuck in Ottawa with my belly quite full and a fairly decent life, so I'll take my misfortune.

I'm trying to come up with a timeline of your own personal story, and correct me if I'm too far off will you?

You had a government job in Belgrade (Don't most people work in government in Eastern Europe).
You have some sort of degree..Maybe a banking or economics obtained via a free education system.

A terrible war broke out forcing you to come to Canada as a refugee.
First you came to Montreal, but there was large language barrier to overcome, and at the same time you became disgruntled after learning that the credentials you worked so hard to obtain in your homeland weren't recognized, so unfortunately some up-grading a re-testing were required.

You drove cab for awhile to make ends meet, and at some point made a move to Ottawa thinking that perhaps a smaller city would help in your transition. Besides, a lot of your fellow countrymen lived here in Ottawa already.
Again, you just couldn't make headway here because people failed to recognize how special and superior you were because you once had government position, and that you are one of the privileged holding a University degree from Belgrade. People should recognize you for it, but they just don't..It frustrates you to no end.

Subsequently, you move to Toronto and alas, you found your home..A bank hires you as an entry level financial advisor at 35 hours a week (salary), and you are just thankful that you don't have to drive a cab anymore..Damn you Montreal!..Damn you Ottawa!

It really is a familiar story

Let me help your narrative. I was born in the late 80s. Otherwise very creative. It's sad you have such a Pavlovian response to government jobs. Did you lose yours in the Harper cuts?

[Razor]

^ Okay, so that wasn't your story then, but rather your parents..You were merely shuffled along in toe with them, but like most impressionable children felt their anger and frustration..

[flipv]

Originally Posted by Razor

^ Okay, so that wasn't your story then, but rather your parents..You were merely shuffled along in toe with them, but like most impressionable children felt their anger and frustration..

Lol whatever makes you sleep at night.

I hope you find a job soon. Maybe reapply your skills elsewhere? I heard Ottawa has a decent tech sector. Jobs for life in the government don't exist anymore.

[Razor]

Originally Posted by north 42

What a tool!

Yes..Shame on me for engaging this simpleton..I'm bored I guess..His offerings on here are immature and from the troll 101 book of cliches ..His attempts are cute I suppose, and he just makes me chuckle..s'all ..Perhaps I should just find a cat and a lasar pointer.

[mistercorporate]

Originally Posted by flipv

Montreal just isn't special, sorry. Why am I supposed to think it is? Because bagels? LOL

I know you're stuck in Ottawa (my condolences, 4 years of my life were quite enough), and are likely glad you can experience something more 'exotic' 150km down the road, but that's exactly why I'm laughing at you. That's as far as your cultural bandwidth goes.

Dude, just because you don't have the qualities that would allow you to make the most and enjoy the experience of cities like Ottawa, Montreal or even other towns, doesn't mean that they are obectively lower quality cities or experiences than what you find in Europe. North America isn't just a land of opportunity, its cities offer a wealth of social and lifestyle possibilities. In my personal opinion (as someone who has lived, travelled and worked in some of Europe's granddest cities), the only area where Europe has us beat is in architecture, as they've had a massive head start. You're entitled to your opinion and your taste, but the way you assert yourself as if your opinions are fact, make you seem quite ignorant and deluded. To a confident and charismatic man, all the world is full of opportunity and pleasure, some of the funnest, most exotic, socially mature and exhilarating places I've visited were small provincial backwaters that make Ottawa seem like a sprawling and sophisticated metropolis. It is you who needs to get out more and open your eyes, experience places beyond just their surface douche-baggy accoutrements.

[mistercorporate]

Originally Posted by flipv

How low can you go? Opinion/respect is earned.

So one doesn't automatically get respect until they prove themselves? Okay, I'll bite. Since I don't have to respect you, since you haven't demostrated any capacities "worthy" of respect, let me state that Serbians have a reputation for being narrow minded and simple minded. It's as if sophistication goes out the window the moment you go East of Austria. I saw it a lot in London, all these Eastern European manual labourers would talk about how culturally superior to blah blah blah ethnic group (they had a sense of "European pride", as if the accomplishments of the UK and France were a reflection of their own cultures abilities), yet who was civil, happy, wealthy, and international? Who was ignorant, insecure, broke and provincial? I'll let you reflect on that.

Yes, we get you think you're an alpha male because of your knuckle-dragging un-PC commentary, but you really are fulfilling the stereotype with your simple minded and intolerant viewpoints.

[flipv]

Originally Posted by mistercorporate

Dude, just because you don't have the qualities that would allow you to make the most and enjoy the experience of cities like Ottawa, Montreal or even other towns, doesn't mean that they are obectively lower quality cities or experiences than what you find in Europe. North America isn't just a land of opportunity, its cities offer a wealth of social and lifestyle possibilities. In my personal opinion (as someone who has lived, travelled and worked in some of Europe's granddest cities), the only area where Europe has us beat is in architecture, as they've had a massive head start. You're entitled to your opinion and your taste, but the way you assert yourself as if your opinions are fact, make you seem quite ignorant and deluded. To a confident and charismatic man, all the world is full of opportunity and pleasure, some of the funnest, most exotic, socially mature and exhilarating places I've visited were small provincial backwaters that make Ottawa seem like a sprawling and sophisticated metropolis. It is you who needs to get out more and open your eyes, experience places beyond just their surface douche-baggy accoutrements.

You? The guy who spends all his time bragging about his money and success is going to lecture me on being confident and charismatic? you're not successful if ya gotta brag.

Those provincial backwaters in Europe have more soul and history on a sidewalk than the entire Canadian urban area x20. The fact that some of you think Montreal can toe to toe with great cultural centres of humanity is laughable and delusional. Canadian cities (lesser so American) aren't known for their unique senses of place - they are known as lands of opportunity.

Delusional SSP forumers strike again.

[flipv]

Originally Posted by mistercorporate

So one doesn't automatically get respect until they prove themselves? Okay, I'll bite. Since I don't have to respect you, since you haven't demostrated any capacities "worthy" of respect, let me state that Serbians have a reputation for being narrow minded and simple minded. It's as if sophistication goes out the window the moment you go East of Austria. I saw it a lot in London, all these Eastern European manual labourers would talk about how culturally superior to blah blah blah ethnic group (they had a sense of "European pride", as if the accomplishments of the UK and France were a reflection of their own cultures abilities), yet who was civil, happy, wealthy, and international? Who was ignorant, insecure, broke and provincial? I'll let you reflect on that.

Yes, we get you think you're an alpha male because of your knuckle-dragging un-PC commentary, but you really are fulfilling the stereotype with your simple minded and intolerant viewpoints.

Isn't there some success forum you should be attending? Because, you know, successful people need to attend webinars in order to be more successful.

I am just very bored this morning and having fun trolling a bunch of thin skinned Canadians obsessing over the most asinine details.

[mistercorporate]

Originally Posted by flipv

You? The guy who spends all his time bragging about his money and success is going to lecture me on being confident and charismatic? you're not successful if ya gotta brag.

Those provincial backwaters in Europe have more soul and history on a sidewalk than the entire Canadian urban area x20. The fact that some of you think Montreal can toe to toe with great cultural centres of humanity is laughable and delusional. Canadian cities (lesser so American) aren't known for their unique senses of place - they are known as lands of opportunity.

Delusional SSP forumers strike again.

I don't brag dumbass, people ask me and I answer, simple as that. I don't think people would care about you or your life beyond trying to find out how you became such a bitter nutjob, but I think we have the measure of you now. Just another simple minded insecure East-block reject with the usual sterotypical qualities. The fact you couldn't hack it in Eastern Europe speaks volumes (since you clearly didn't come here for the lifestyle or culture), I have relatives who moved to places like Croatia for the fantastic economic opportunities it provides and these are educated Brits!

[flipv]

Originally Posted by mistercorporate

I don't brag dumbass, people ask me and I answer, simple as that. I don't think people would care about you or your life beyond trying to find out how you became such a bitter nutjob, but I think we have the measure of you now. Just another simple minded insecure East-block reject with the usual sterotypical qualities. The fact you couldn't hack it in Eastern Europe speaks volumes (since you clearly didn't come here for the lifestyle or culture), I have relatives who moved to places like Croatia for the fantastic economic opportunities it provides and these are educated Brits!

I love when morons try to figure out what I'm about and my background - all while being trolled as thin skinned divas who get upset when someone disagrees with them.

Get over yourself. We all know you're likely some unemployed proletariat trying to pretend you're something to complete strangers on an online forum. When one has to brag about his money and success on a skyscraper forum to other strangers (most teens) you gotta think what's going through their head

[mistercorporate]

Originally Posted by flipv

Isn't there some success forum you should be attending? Because, you know, successful people need to attend webinars in order to be more successful.

I am just very bored this morning and having fun trolling a bunch of thin skinned Canadians obsessing over the most asinine details.

Webinars? WTF are you talking about, anyway successful people tend to be hungry for knowledge and search for it wherever it is and by whichever medium it's provided. Most modern MBA programs use webinars, internal discussion forums and video conferencing along with the usual lectures, especially universities like Harvard (which is trending more towards online delivery of content). Something which I'm quite sure you would have no idea about.

[mistercorporate]

Originally Posted by flipv

I love when morons try to figure out what I'm about and my background - all while being trolled as thin skinned divas who get upset when someone disagrees with them.

Get over yourself. We all know you're likely some unemployed proletariat trying to pretend you're something to complete strangers on an online forum. When one has to brag about his money and success on a skyscraper forum to other strangers (most teens) you gotta think what's going through their head

Anyway, keep doing you comrade and happy new year It's no fun debating with "the help", don't you have some toilet to unblock? Get back to work son!

Goodbyyyyeee!

[flipv]

Originally Posted by mistercorporate

Anyway, keep doing you comrade and happy new year It's no fun debating with "the help", don't you have some toilet to unblock? Get back to work son!

Goodbyyyyeee!

Lolol! If only you knew. But unlike you, I don't brag about my situation - as braggable as it is for my age.

I hope you find peace, and a good job. You don't have to lie to strangers.

[Razor]

Originally Posted by mistercorporate

let me state that Serbians have a reputation for being narrow minded and simple minded. It's as if sophistication goes out the window the moment you go East of Austria..

A reflecton of this can also be seen in those dull suits their sports stars wear. The solid colour dark gray or navy with those conservative ties.

Every rookie from those Slavic countries making the NHL needs to acquire a fashion advisor when they accept that jersey and team hat on draft day.It's like they are taking their cues from the old Yugoslavian basket ball team photo when that country was still together.

3 striped adidas are also passé nowadays too..I hope you aren't donning that get up FlipV?? You will lose points if it's a coordinated top and bottom track suit.

[flipv]

Originally Posted by Razor

A reflecton of this can also be seen in those dull suits their sports stars wear. The solid colour dark gray or navy with those conservative ties.

Every rookie from those Slavic countries making the NHL needs to acquire a fashion advisor when they accept that jersey and team hat on draft day.It's like they are taking their cues from the old Yugoslavian basket ball team photo when that country was still together.

3 striped adidas are also passé nowadays too..I hope you aren't donning that get up FlipV?? You will lose points if it's a coordinated top and bottom track suit.

You know, just to illustrate how fucked some of you are: it goes from me saying Montreal isn't special and I prefer European cities to Slavs are unsophisticated plumbers. And way to paint what? 250 million people?

You need your head checked - saying anything like that about another culture or race should get you banned.

[cyeg66]

Originally Posted by flipv

You? The guy who spends... .....backwaters in Europe have more soul and history on a sidewalk than the entire Canadian urban area x20......

Very factual commentary. Please tell us more. I'm enjoying learning a great deal about you and your vast, factual knowledge of that big o' world.....