so i recently filmed a video where i asked people in montreal what's one thing you love about the
city what's one thing you hate about the city and i thought the video turned out pretty cool i hope
you watched it but one comment i got was i asked too many tourists i went to old montreal and a
lot of people i spoke to were fresh in the city so today i'm going to try again and i'm going
to go out of my way to find montrealers i hope you like it let's get right to it uh what's your
name lila lila what's something you love about montreal something i love about montreal is that
you can travel not very far the like 10 minutes 15 minutes on a bike or a few metro stops
and you arrive in a completely different neighborhood with a completely different
energy and different opportunities um
there aren't too many things that i don't like about it to be quite honest um sometimes people
walk in the bike path and that really frustrates me but that's not so bad all things considered
what's your name my name is henry henry what's something you love about montreal i love the women
of the women of montreal they're beautiful yeah awesome and is there something you hate
about well you have to say the weather i really hate the weather in in winter yeah
good stuff pretty much it okay to the point i love it and what was your name gabriel gabriel
what do you love about montreal i love the people everyone's so creative so lovely everyone's kind
they're so open to any kind of discussion or anything so it's really nice being here
yeah and how about the hate side of it oh something you hate about my child yeah i'd
say like henry the weather like when gets to enter it's the worst like getting around the metro the
bus i'd say uh just so bad and people are really depressed i feel like and then so the mood is
really off and like everyone's in their own head and like they're doing their own stuff but when it
comes to summer like everyone everyone's surviving oh yeah everyone's vibing everyone going to each
other like it's really nice yep awesome appreciate it thanks guys what's your name my name is maerie
myerson maieri zoo from madagascar yeah exactly and what's one thing you love about montreal what
i love about montreal i think it's the diverse diversity sorry about the people the food and
all thinking you can find here but and what i hate about it i think it's going to be the construction
the winter and the prices uh that are getting higher every every year like
that's awesome thank you bro cool thank you have a nice one oh what's your name dan yeah yeah i do
i do a youtube channel oh yeah what do you have in the box i'm very curious now a poutine putin nice
that's me the new travel okay okay thank you very much have a great day what's your name jenna jenna
what's one thing you love about montreal uh i love the nightlife the city nightlife
do you have something you love are still thinking i'm still thinking okay
jenna is there something you hate about montreal the construction
okay you stole mine really yeah i was about to say the construction actually a lot of people answer
construction is there something else something else you hate oh sometimes like people are rude
sometimes the people here aren't nice like strangers not strangers
we put up with it you know did you grow up in montreal yeah yeah
i don't know it's just a fun place to be there's a lot of stuff going on
good vibes yeah exactly it's easier to find something i hate about it what's something you
hate about montreal um i don't know i feel like i don't want to answer french because that's a bad
answer it's just the there's a lot of stuff that the government could work on okay like um i mean
i don't want to speak for you maybe it's hard as an english speaker it's kind of what you're saying
there's like tension there you know definitely especially in like schools but also now in public
places there's a lot more french that's making it harder to live here if you speak english primarily
well what i like about montreal yeah well everything i mean the streets that are closed
summers uh the culture tourists uh everything around uh all the different kind of people
and what i don't like about montreal winters that's it they're too easy only winter yeah
only winter really because summertime it's it's it's paradise really even if the road some of
the roads are black i know it's not gonna last for like thousands of years so in a few years
everything is going to be fixed and and when it's fixed it's very beautiful so we have to be patient
just entering into the park let's see if i can talk to some people here people are usually in
a good mood we're in the park maybe they won't be annoyed by this guy with a camera going up to him
i don't know oh man there's so many people this is kind of intimidating believe it or
not i do not like approaching strangers this has not come easily to me uh sometimes i just
look at someone i'm like oh i want to say it but then i check it out at last second i'm gonna try
i'm gonna try it for youtube what's your name my name is patrick patrick yeah patrick what's
one thing you love about montreal honestly it's all the parks and the greenery there's a ton of
trees everywhere and uh where i live in ndg all the streets are lined with trees and i
really love that about the city i feel like a lot more cities could use more greenery um so
yeah that's one thing i i love about montreal we got a nice nice greenery around us right now
of the park one thing i hate about montreal would be the lack of transportation to the west island
there's a lot of stuff on the west island parks beautiful parks and even beaches that you can go
visit but it's kind of hard to get to so i kind of wish there was a bit more access around there
that's pretty much it i mean i love montreal i've lived there my whole life but it's just been
you know something that like trying to visit friends and stuff like that it always takes
forever so appreciate it man what's your name larry larry larry what's one thing
you love about montreal i like the diversity i love the outdoors activities the festivals
uh all the urban and the culture also everything that's artistic they're really open to that so i
love that cool are you by the way are you munchau born raised i'm born here oh that's awesome
so you must have something you hate what do you hate about montreal um
i mean i think it's temporary like right now the the parking not the parking but the constructions
the renovations yeah yeah yeah but you know i understand the the backhand behind it i think
the city that took time too much time to start doing it so now everybody started to do it all
at the same time oh because i'm new to montreal so it wasn't always like this it looks like it's
all happening now it's like all the mayors in the past years they just didn't bother doing all the
work so now she just had everything on her table and she decided to do all at the same time which
people were really frustrated so they made a complaint so then two years ago she decided
to slow down so she stretched it out a little but it's pretty frustrating when you're driving
downtown and you know all the streets are closed and stuff but uh i mean the city itself there's
nothing much i hear about it to be honest pretty happy over here pretty good life
i love the variety of like different types of people and different atmospheres that exist so
even between the boroughs and the neighborhoods but also that like you can afford to live here
kind of so that you can see all of these different pathways of life pathways of life
that's an interesting way to think about it like montreal has all the different pathways
now the tough question is there something you hate about montreal
yeah well i would say obviously it's stuff like the treatment of the homeless population and the
disability and the disabled population is abysmal like i go to mcgill and i have pretty bad like
chronic asthma and i have to go walk up a mountain to go to class every day and i can't imagine like
if you were in a wheelchair for example even in the shuttle if you have to cross mctavish your
wheelchair will tip over or roll like there's no foreseeable way to like safely get to classes that
are at the top and then all of the metro stations in the downtown core so like at water peel mcgill
uh even up on the orange line almost up to bear you can don't have
elevators or accessible uh anything like that and then the city doesn't have bathrooms so
for the house population then there's a ton of issues like that so the way that they treat like
um non-normative like what they consider non-normative populations i think is a bit uh
too old-fashioned for my liking what's something that you love about montreal um i think i like the
how active the activists are in the city you see them do a variety of different
things like protests they're there's stuff happening all the time everywhere people
they're angry and they want their voices heard graffiti is one of the things i see all the time
for actually the climate change that's currently happening right now people are pissed about it
people want their voices heard on the flip side what's something you hate about montreal
i feel like they need to invest more in their transportation system
it does suck like it's good for canada it's great for a large city but
trying to get to the south shore or like point clear or something it's impossible
right now i know they're working on the light rail which is nice but at the moment that's
probably the thing i hate the most about the city is that
it's a city but it's really condensed to
the mountain that was a good one you know we're getting some interesting thoughts here
um yeah i think something when you're talking about the homeless population or the
disabled populations that's the kind of thing that you don't really notice when
you're a tourist in a city but when you live there you start to pay more attention to so
we're definitely getting some interesting answers today let's let's see if i can get one or two more
do you need time to think or you think i usually can't think of anything before i say it
so okay i i dig it okay so wait okay so one thing that i love about montreal
is the fun and the people oh that's two okay nah you can you can vibe you
can say montreal is fun i love montreal i love one thing about montreal and that's
it's so fun there's people i meet people all the time such as yourself
you know it attracts a lot of like interesting characters so that's what i love about montreal
okay what i what i dislike about montreal first thing that comes to my mind
is [ __ ] there's like nothing coming to my mind there's a lot of things that i don't like
about montreal i can't think of them right the construction construction there we go it's always
under construction not that i drive i literally don't even drive and just like walk i like ride
a bike but uh it's frustrating so you are from france originally yeah i am and how long have you
been in montreal uh i've been in montreal for four years four years yeah what's one thing you love
about montreal um the community yeah it's people yeah yeah what about the people what makes them
special to you um their spirit there i feel like i don't know um i'm connecting to another level with
people here i guess yeah yeah on the other side is there something you hate or dislike about the city
um the construction maybe yeah you're so mad to give the same answers oh my god
that was funny so she was canadian and she gave her answer and she said wait a minute
my partner will answer too he's from france and then he came out and he asked me okay what or
he asked her what was her answer and she's like i can't say you're gonna give the same answer
so he didn't hear her answer and then he ended up giving the same answer so uh
but hey i think we got a good variety of answers today if you enjoyed this be sure
to check out part one and two this is my third time making a video like this