Startups in Montréal
I moved to Montreal last summer and spring, after years in Seattle and Berkeley.  Then I gave up and moved back to Berkeley.<p>Pros:<p><pre><code>    + Bitcoin Embassy Montreal!
    + Really cheap hipster life
      + Wonderful cheap food
      + Walkable city
      + A French culture that values living, parks, &amp; community!
    + Beautiful women, and lots of them
    + There actually is a tech scene!  Woah!
    + It&#x27;s different
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Cons:<p><pre><code>    - Less edgy culture.  Less individual extreme boundary pushing.
      People move in largish herds of friends.
    - Racist against people who speak English.  Language racism.
    - Corrupt government
    - McGill and Concordia are nowhere near as good as
      Berkeley and Stanford, and not even UW.
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Overall, it has a culture that supports working for a startup or doing tech contracting work, but it lacks that revolutionary west-coast culture that I like to live inside of to take a stab at doing something breakthrough.<p>And language racism really sucks!  On the upside, it&#x27;s a great way for a white american male to experience being a discriminated minority.