Truth is most of Canada is a backwater redneck zone. Quebec rural areas are like Alabama level rednecks. If you like fishing, skidooing, boating, or drinking rural quebec is fun.
The cities are economic zones where people make money.
Canada does not have much to offer outside of outdoor activities and redneck acitivities. its mostly boring af.
There are a bunch of comfy towns up 138 in the Charlevoix region. The Saguenay fjords are cool to see. Gaspe has interesting geography. You need to make sure your French is good because they hate anglos
>You need to make sure your French is good because they hate anglos
I don't think this will help much. Their French is fricking incomprehensible, ESPECIALLY in the countryside. I'm at least a C1 in French and could hardly understand them at all when they talk at full speed among themselves.
The problem is their French is so riddled with Quebec slang that literally no one else uses, to the point where it makes following along difficult. It isn't just new words, they also use contractions of other, more common words as common parts of speech which makes everything confusing.
You could probably get used to it if you really wanted to make a go of living there. But as a tourist, my God, was it fricking exasperating.
Yeah this is true. I literally speak it has a first language but I have cousins in extremely rural parts and I have no fricking idea what they are saying sometimes. They use extremely dialect heavy words and just stuff that doesn’t even exist anymore in other regions. When I speak in French I sometimes have to speak a more “standard” way of speaking for people who aren’t used to it.
Yes. Juat say Bonjour and Merci and we'll like you.
Je pense qu'on va rester la nuit à Trois Rivières entre Montréal et Québec. Mais ma français n'est pas le mieux, il y a six années que j'ai parlé en français donc j'ai oublié un peu (ma grande mère Louisianaise parlait français comme langue maternelle avant de sa mort et elle m'a enseigné un peu). À Montréal et Gatineau au passé je n'ai jamais eu un expérience mal. Je suis un peu nerveux de visiter le Québec rural à cause de mes abilités en français, et ma blonde sera avec moi et elle ne parle pas beaucoup de français, dont je vais être là seul qui peut communiquer.
Un petit question pour vous: comment s'appelle un "medium double double" à Tim Hortons en Quebec?
Your french is very good man, you'll do well, people will figure you're a tourist and either switch to english or talk slow. Also Tims is shit, McDs coffee is much better.
Mont Tremblant and the Laurentians are fun if you like the outdoors.
Took a road trip down past Sept Iles, if you want to feel like you've reached the end of the world go down there. Cheap, hotel, camping and whale watching.
I'd like to check out the Magdalens but it seems pretty small.
They’re decently populated but incredibly remote it’s not really easy to get to them and it’s extremely French. A lot of people don’t even speak English there.
going to montreal for four days and have a day or two extra to kill afterwards, should I look for somewhere else to go in quebec or hit vermont/upstate NY? probably going to hit niagara on the way home anyways too
Hit burlington it’s only 2 hours from montreal. You can also do QC. Don’t do Niagara it’s too out of the way, you can do QC, Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Placid. Those are some good combos
Go to main and visit Acadia
Not really
Truth is most of Canada is a backwater redneck zone. Quebec rural areas are like Alabama level rednecks. If you like fishing, skidooing, boating, or drinking rural quebec is fun.
The cities are economic zones where people make money.
Canada does not have much to offer outside of outdoor activities and redneck acitivities. its mostly boring af.
Its still way better than ontario
Theres more interesting shit to do in either of Montreal/QC than the whole province of Ontario
There are a bunch of comfy towns up 138 in the Charlevoix region. The Saguenay fjords are cool to see. Gaspe has interesting geography. You need to make sure your French is good because they hate anglos
what if i'm a burger, is that better than being an anglo canadian
Yes. Juat say Bonjour and Merci and we'll like you.
thanks
lmao, no. they'll make you after your first bahn-jewer and treat you with derision everywhere you go
>You need to make sure your French is good because they hate anglos
I don't think this will help much. Their French is fricking incomprehensible, ESPECIALLY in the countryside. I'm at least a C1 in French and could hardly understand them at all when they talk at full speed among themselves.
The problem is their French is so riddled with Quebec slang that literally no one else uses, to the point where it makes following along difficult. It isn't just new words, they also use contractions of other, more common words as common parts of speech which makes everything confusing.
You could probably get used to it if you really wanted to make a go of living there. But as a tourist, my God, was it fricking exasperating.
I speak fluent French and they kept switching to bad English when I spoke to them. Pissed me off.
Yeah this is true. I literally speak it has a first language but I have cousins in extremely rural parts and I have no fricking idea what they are saying sometimes. They use extremely dialect heavy words and just stuff that doesn’t even exist anymore in other regions. When I speak in French I sometimes have to speak a more “standard” way of speaking for people who aren’t used to it.
Trois-Rivieres et Gaspe sont bon villes
Je pense qu'on va rester la nuit à Trois Rivières entre Montréal et Québec. Mais ma français n'est pas le mieux, il y a six années que j'ai parlé en français donc j'ai oublié un peu (ma grande mère Louisianaise parlait français comme langue maternelle avant de sa mort et elle m'a enseigné un peu). À Montréal et Gatineau au passé je n'ai jamais eu un expérience mal. Je suis un peu nerveux de visiter le Québec rural à cause de mes abilités en français, et ma blonde sera avec moi et elle ne parle pas beaucoup de français, dont je vais être là seul qui peut communiquer.
Un petit question pour vous: comment s'appelle un "medium double double" à Tim Hortons en Quebec?
Your french is very good man, you'll do well, people will figure you're a tourist and either switch to english or talk slow. Also Tims is shit, McDs coffee is much better.
I'm a bit of a sperg even in English so I'm nervous lol
Mont Tremblant and the Laurentians are fun if you like the outdoors.
Took a road trip down past Sept Iles, if you want to feel like you've reached the end of the world go down there. Cheap, hotel, camping and whale watching.
can see the magdalen islands before they wash away
>took a road trip down past Sept Iles
did you go to any of the newfie towns?
I'd like to check out the Magdalens but it seems pretty small.
They’re decently populated but incredibly remote it’s not really easy to get to them and it’s extremely French. A lot of people don’t even speak English there.
going to montreal for four days and have a day or two extra to kill afterwards, should I look for somewhere else to go in quebec or hit vermont/upstate NY? probably going to hit niagara on the way home anyways too
Quebec city is pretty cool for a day.
Hit burlington it’s only 2 hours from montreal. You can also do QC. Don’t do Niagara it’s too out of the way, you can do QC, Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Placid. Those are some good combos
Niagara is on the drive back to my Midwestern shithole, my wife wants to stop since she’s never seen it so I figure why not
The Saguenay river valley and Lac saint Jean is very beautiful
lots of fjords
Is it true there’s alot of cute prosties in rural Quebec that work in truck stops?