This is by far the funniest fucking part of the podcast in a year. Something about realizing Montreal is this nightmare city, where the Fishing Hamlet from Bloodborne and Kamurocho from Yakuza merged, gives me endless joy.
You could legit just set an entire CSB game in Montreal with Yakuza fight mechanics and this deeplore taken to a truly ludicrous extreme, and it'd work.
OK so I had an experience like that, going down a dingy alley to grab milk and bread in dense ass fog with all the local drunks hanging out in what equates to Public Park No.3 from Yakuza is sure something.
From the sounds of things Montreal and the surrounding areas specifically. It's like a nation that wants to be European, but have never visited Europe and are just making guesses based on stories they hear.
Hell yeah Verdun I work in Pointe-St-Charles, my toddler's daycare is next to a crackhouse on wellington, on my way home from picking him up I was waiting for a red light at Bridge and Wellington where that car wash is. A dude straight up tried to get in my car, clung to it as I drove away, found his way to the hood of my car as I botched a u-turn, and we stood there at a standstill blocking traffic leading to Victoria Bridge for like 10 minutes until a 6' tall good samaritan told him to get the hell off
@@skunthundler To be honest it really was a freak occurrence, the area has been gentrified quite a bit in the past years and I've been in this area for 3 years, nothing remotely this bizarre has happened before. This was like a week before Xmas and our lockdown too, oh the memories
*Unknown Dealer’s Bag* : “The echoes of a party found on the corpse of an unknown dealer. Consume to gain weed. Go on, if left alone, it would only serve as weed for demons...” A White Fog Construction Gate blocks your path. You cannot cross until you have defeated an Arch-itech and retrieved their Permit.
And the Angels said “Flee Laval with your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to Montreal, lest you be stricken down and turned into a shitty Suburban house”
And lo, as a reward for protecting the lord's real estate agents from Laval, Lot received some decent housing in montreal with enough money to secure a solid year of protection.
I was doing street view of Laval, thinking "there's more than one kind of house. They're exaggerating." I started clicking on other areas of the map, but my computer froze. Or I thought it did because the neighborhoods looked so similar.
Laval ain't boring! we got: 1) Chomedy Greeks 2) Vimont Italians 3) Other suburbs 4) Centropolis 5) Centropolis 6) Centre de la nature 7) Overprices houses that can be purchased for a fraction of the price by driving 10 more minutes up north You see, Laval is the place to be
Man, homeless there have it rough. Cold as shit, being used as human experimentation, being pushed around instead of building their own permeant residence that they don't need to pay land taxes for or rent and having their need for housing exploited to get them to take the human experimentation route. ...Fuck, it is just Yakuza up there in those places huh? Least new York sends them here to Hawaii and they go in the bushes. Fair enough they could still get stabbed but we got a lot of bushes and beaches and Habitat For Humanity works a lot here. It's also easy enough to get some building material. Food is plenty in the forest or ocean and your going to be able to get water by just walking a bit to the parts of the island currently raining if the cash you have ain't enough for bottles. Though they also have free water fill up places at parks and stores now with the hand washing places do to Corona now so that's a thing.
Few things in life bring more laughter than listening to two folks local to some area you’ve never been to talk shit about their area. I have no fucking clue what they are talking about and its great
Golly, stories and talk about city life and the culture of neighborhoods is always so interesting to me. Growing up in non-incorporated suburbs this is all new.
I mean, Canada is already that with how cold it gets, how deserted it can be and all the hallucinations you can get at night with light tricks. Just add moose zombies in the cities and the game writes itself. Hell! Barely anyone knows Canda exist and ESPECIALLY the lands in the very north of Canada. Those super don't exist.
I did get the distinct honor of my friends coming to my part of the state on a foggy day and them all collectively agreeing that it's a fucked up combination of Hope County and Silent Hill. Does not help that I live within walking distance of 4 different cemetaries.
For what it's worth I found the couple square blocks around Chinatown to be nice enough when I visited a few years back. Also you can apparently see Vermont from the actual Mount... Real. Royal? It's pretty neat.
We have a project where i live and i went thourgh there once and i guy tried to sell me a gun by putting it aganist my head and saying do you want to buy this. Fucking glad that place is getting renovated
Dude, I live in Colombia. You get at 3 a.m. to a bad, hell even a regular neighborhood, you're either get out there without your clothes or get stabbed.
Hey a fellow north Philadelphian never thought I'd see one here. My area was rough but my father was very adamant about staying away from the Newkirk area.
I lived in the point for 6 years, it was fine. One dude got shot outside my window but that's all. Rent was decent, had a backyard, neighbors were chill.
The more i hear about Montreal, the more i'm pretty sure the north part of Idaho is just rural Canada but owned by the US. Also I love how this kind of conversation can be had about fucking anywhere. The area i grew up in was too small to complain about certain parts of town, so we'd shit on the other towns in the general area, since most people from the area and tourists lump 2 separate towns together anyway since they're a 5 minute drive apart, connected to the same lake, and emergency response jurisdiction overlaps pretty much the whole fucking county
You guys should talk about the Smell of Guy Concordia Metro. It's pretty pungent in in winter, and in summer, who boy. i just hold my breath as we approach until we leave
My hometown is not nearly as bad but I still give a shoutout to whatever genius thought it was a good idea to build a youth center right opposite to the designated drug pushing spot.
So as someone from Connecticut the comparison of Lavel and The West Island sounds way too similar to growing up with Bridgeport, a nightmare city that is so bad they made a joke about it on Family Guy. And Fairfield, which houses the wealthiest people in the entire country with Wayne manor level houses. Both being literally right next to each other.
Yesterday super early morning (after curfew, I'm not getting fined!) there was such a thick fog in Montreal that I thought we were in a scary video game. You could barely see in front of you.
Every time they talk about Montreal its like the rest of Canada is vindicated in disowning quebec. At least Toronto has highly specific aggro zones you can fairly easily avoid.
Speaking of old burnt down buildings. In Spruce Grove Alberta there’s a rotten old burnt building that use to be the local KFC. It’s been there for years and it’s surrounded by business and the local favourite 50’s style drive in. Right by the highway.
For context, I grew up in Iowa. So my context for anywhere north, has Vikings. Jokes aside, Iowa weather is like 8 seasons, and 5 of them is Winter doing the Demsey Roll.
Actually living in west island isn't that bad. It's just that that have a bad rep. Though the buses are fucked for people living off island. Especially when theirs no OPUS.
24:35 there was a guy that did that to my house when I was a kid, had to move out in winter. Luckily the provincial court quickly realized that the guys case was bullshit. Also apparently my parents got a public attorney that just handled shit like some fucking movie mob man
i went through this video on google maps looking at where they were talking about, and from the outside it doesnt look nearly as bad as they say it is lol.
