Boise is spiritually part of Bilbao

the bilbao's connected to the, broken bow

Montreal is spiritually Boston

Na it's Philly.

I don't know what Montreal is, but I'm always gonna vote for Philly supremacy.

Montreal is a counterfactual for “what if the industrial northeast didn’t collapse and instead became incredibly gay and successful”. It has no spiritual sister city because all the real candidates (Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland) have all essentially collapsed.

This guy is clearly related to Gritty.

Spiritually Buffalo, they both drink a shitton of Labatt Blue

One of the first things I noticed when I moved out of upstate New York is that Labatt’s isn’t at every bar and gas station in the rest of the country. I grew up putting it in the same category as Bud or Coors, a cheap beer they have everywhere.

When I was in Boise I used to seek out the handful of places that had Labatt’s and Genesee. (I would have preferred Utica Club but of course no one has that.)

FWIW if you’re ever in DC & more specifically Adams Morgan, I’m pretty sure Grand Central still has Genesee & probably Labatt too, no idea on Utica (The founder/I’m pretty sure still the owner’s from WNY & an Ithaca alum to boot so it’s the local alumni chapter’s preferred Cortaca viewing site)

Same

(I assume we’re just listing all the other hockey towns they hate/who hate them)

Though they do both have semi-problematic relationships with the Roman Catholic Church & a hate-love (In that order) relationship with Toronto (Plus decades of enmity with Ottawa)

that’s why the bagels are so good

completely different type of bagel

I think they’re better, tbh

You're objectively right

absolutely not, no part of that entire province is NYC-like. it can be a nice place to visit, depending

I was in Montreal and NYC on the same family car trip some 40 years ago. No it the heck wasn't, at least back then. I'm guessing gentrification hit it HARD since then and a crapload of Anglophones moved in?

if you think this you've never been east of the Plateau

I live in VT so it's very easy to do day trips. Really curious if there was a decade when it "NYC-ified" or if Montreal was always such a great place for tourism and urban life. (Quebecois politics being a big asterisk on education, immigration, and services unfortunately)

More so when I lived there as far as I hear now.

Greenpoint is spiritually part of Montreal

My theory is that it's French Philly

It got me how Puerto Rican Montreal is. Or was-that observation is a couple decades old at this point.

i've always said that new york city is the montreal of america

“Inside you, there are three genders.” There genders;

I’ve never been to New Orleans but I’ve been to Montreal many times and always thought of it as “Cold New Orleans” because it’s so rowdy. But when I went last year it wasn’t as rowdy as I remembered and now I’m like “maybe it was just me and my friends who were rowdy”

I mean if you said Toronto and NYC I'd agree with you, Montreal can't even figure out what north is

It makes more sense as an answer to what is the Jewish ancestral homeland (all 3).

None of you fuckers name a French-speaking city lol

typical imperial American

Wat

Our Metro is 100% cleaner and quieter though

America is spiritually part of the commonwealth

In NYC you're allowed to speak other languages.

When I visited Montreal in 2009, I noticed that their subway would occasionally open the doors before the train had fully stopped, and I was like damn, that's hardcore! Even in the bad old '80s, I never saw that on the NYC subway.

finally found the real 6th borough

we’re just saying stuff on here today huh