Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by sonnyblarney on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:11AM (#18165624)

"It’s small compared to these tier 1 cities in Western Europe"

Only London and Paris are much bigger.

Mtl is about 4 million people, it's almost the same size as Madrid or Berlin or Barca. A little smaller than Amsterdam but really bigger than most else.

But it's tier 2 size in North America, but a strong tier 2.

It's really weird how people in NA don't know about Montreal. It kills most places for culture.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by raverbashing on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:31AM (#18165750)

I agree with GP's assessment of Mtl, just wanting to make a point on the size.

Montreal metro is 4 million. But Montreal has a special dynamic, by fact of being an island. It's not as well connected as Manhattam.

So there are two "bumps", one north and one south (Montreal has its own definition of North/South, btw)

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by sonnyblarney on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:59PM (#18171694)

It's as well connected.

Also, the 'division' is not geographic, it's cultural. East Montreal is French, West is English and it's bizarre how little social crossing there is. I live among the French and they don't even know about major things happening in the West Side.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by raverbashing on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:24AM (#18175299)

I'm saying the island is not well connected with the South/North side

It will get better when they build the new bridge though

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