A friend-to-friend guide for new arrivals in Montreal: visas, neighbourhoods, the French question, winter logistics, parking bans, RAMQ wait, SAQ vs depanneur, BIXI vs car, average rents, and what I wish someone had told me first.
The Old Montreal walking route I send people on when they ask: a three-to-four-hour loop from Place d Armes to the Old Port and back, with real opening hours, real prices, and what to skip.
Where Montrealers actually drink craft beer: a working list of brewpubs and microbreweries by neighbourhood, with what to order, what to skip, and how the dépanneur cans fit in.
A Montrealer's honest list of the 15 things actually worth doing in the city, with prices in CAD, opinions on what to skip, and the bagel debate settled.
