[kool maudit]

sorry for the edit, it's just that i woke up and realized i had expressed myself retardedly, both here and maybe a bit at the bar before that. to sum up, though, it took being out of montreal for a while to really appreciate how effortlessly metropolitan this city is. it's a city of a like two million (i know metro is 4,000,000, but i dont care about the 450) that you can really use like it's a big capital: cabs everywhere, cafe, bar and restaurant options in every neighbourhood at all hours, good intrinsic fashion and comportment... it's not perfect, but it's a CITY. having spent some time in some of canada's smaller centres (ottawa and halifax) lately, i just realized what an enormous gap there is, not really in terms of infrastructure or offerings, but more in the expectations of their inhabitants, what sort of lives people lead, and what they expect their city to provide for them.