aeon said:Micksandy said:I have lived in Quebec for four years now....the idiots that live here.....take it in the butt constantly by the government and do nothing about it. Highest taxes....worst roads...worst healthcare....laziest people in the world....
I am moving to T.O. which I don't necessarily like but to make a life here is impossible. I moved from Nova Scotia to Montreal because I remembered visiting here some time ago and enjoyed it. The culture....the old buildings...the fun lifestyle.
Word to the wise.....if you like a place....don't move there.
I despise quebec now....whiners that have nothing to do other than protest everyday and the cops partition the streets and block the streets for hours (only time you can find a cop) so people can't get home in the traffic so a bunch of students can protest their tuition. Try being from another country where those out of country students are paying 10 times as much to take the same courses and never bitch about it. Happy to just have an education. Never enough. The habs are the only NHL team to have to pay to play. They have to pay the Bell Centre annually...huge amounts of money...to play there. The Olympic Stadium committe and the city of Montreal passed down an architect from the U.S. to build the stadium in order to give it to a frenchman in Quebec and was an architectural nightmare. It was just finished being paid off and will be torn down soon. Contractors that are normally hired through the Quebec usual practice of nepotism.....are screwing the system (example....building a metro....many are paid by the truckload of dirt that they are leaving the site with in order to dump....they are coming in and out of the site with the same truckload and multiplying their $$...btw...that is from a friend that works on the site that says it is common practice).
Healthcare.....hospitals, save two, are ratty and covered in dust, cracks in the plaster....etc. My girlfriend was diagnosed with MS and had to spend a week laying on a gurney in a high traffic area hallway of the hospital with people puking and coughing all around her....and a kid with cancer laying on a gurney across from her....poor kid had to spend some precious days laying in a hallway.
So, anyone that says that Quebec is charming is full of crap.....it is "quaint stupidity". This place is one of the last places to do business in all of North America because businesses hire based on knowing french rather than skill or education. You can have a master's degree and be passed up by some redneck that only speaks french with little education.
Prince Edward Island (a fact) spends more money on their police and crime control than all of quebec. Little tiny P.E.I.
Anyone that wants to praise Quebec.....either has never spent any real time here or has spend every moment here and doesnt know any better.
I live in quebec/montreal, and i can tell you it is the best place, i ever seen in the world, why?? because it is the only place, where people speaks english and french, mix with multicultural, just like toronto is( smaller yes).
Worst road, yes, higher taxes, yes, but to live in quebec, it cost you about half of the money than the rest of canada,schools are cheaper, rent are cheaper than most of canada, lazy, my ass, this is an opinion based on nothing at all.
What the hell you guys have to say about those who protest?? why english peoples has problem with that?? protesting is a basic right in democracy .
You are disillusioned.....Quebec has the highest taxes in all of North America....and then Tremblay wants to tax the public more to pay for the roads that we already pay too much to fix. The ignorance here is insane....I went to Calgary to visit friends and it was nice to see road signs and establishment signs that didnt basically threaten you. Any service provider or company that provides a service only does so when it is convenient for the employee....certainly not that "can do" attitude. You know it to be true. Either that or you have not been to other places. This place is ridiculous! Where does that 30% of my income go to???
the language police??
I worked at an establishment where a couple came in and when I didnt know what Cote Levees meant......they threatened to call the Alliance Francaise!! WTF!? Everything is backwards here and to a large degree.....third world in its approach to healthcare or services. Christ! most businesses in downtown "world class" Montreal only accept cash. We have pretty old buildings and is the "redlight" district of Canada and the "smoking section" of Canada but what else have you got? I could regale story after story and it would never be enough. My father is packing up his two companies and leaving for Ontario. I decided to leave also. this place is retarded and the people that live here don't know any better. I couldnt give a shit about language....that doesnt even enter into the basis of what I am saying....it is the "oops its 5pm....time to get out of here" type of mentality.....leaving work behind regardless of what is on the table or on the line......
You can't get anything from any service unless you are not inconveniencing the employee.
quebec, does indeed, suck. too bad....I was really liking this place in the first year...but then I realized that there is no life here.
too bad that protesting is a basic right of democracy...
so is not being stuck in traffic for four hours while the protesters throw rocks at the police like we live in Belfast.
what right do those people have? I say give them a field out in the west island or on the south shore or north laval to protest all they want....they can scream their heads off and not disrupt daily life.
Trucker magazine says that Montreal roads are the worst in North America. They should know. T.O. has 14 lane roads...the most you see in Montreal is 8. Great city engineering! Brilliant!!
No wonder why traffic always sucks and noone has any idea on how to fix it or the ambition to do so. No ambition anywhere in this city other than buying sharp suits and sunglasses.
