Just to be clear : July 1st isn't mandatory at all. For historical reasons it just means many leases are dated and renew on July 1st. It's also been embraced because it creates a day where the market is wide open with lots of available apartments, in a game of "musical chairs". If you're happy with your place, you have no obligation to leave it on July 1st.
The fact that lease renewals typically need to be confirmed in around February (at least in MTL) it can be a bit of a headache, where you need to commit to moving before you've located a new apartment.
I had no idea the fact that most leases renew on July 1st was a unique thing about Quebec. Moving day logistics aside, it's pretty convenient to have a few months in the year (April-June) where there are so many options available when selecting a new place to rent.
What is the status of landlines in the US and Canada? In Norway it is passé. Only grannies has them. The phonecompanies will not maintain the copperwires unless there is a serious PR backlash.
@@Espen.Johannesen About the same for residential use here. As a 911 dispatcher, I think it's great that older people still use them because it's so much easier to know where they are when they have a medical problem. I might actually decide to get a landline for myself when I get older for that reason.
The notion of disconnecting and reconnecting wires to accommodate a subscriber move is almost as comically archaic as gathering wood to cook. The device I am typing this comment on is capable of maintaining a video call while moving at highway speeds.
It is genuinely interesting though. Many moving companies in neighbouring Ontario and New Brunswick actually relocate to Québec for a week, so if you live in Ontario or New Brunswick, moving also becomes more expensive around that week.
2:25 it reminds me that Hydro-Québec, the state-owned electrical company, cannot cut your electricity during winter if you don't pay it. They will cut it in April if you didn't have a agreement with them or something like that. But, before that, Hydro-Québec is required to keep the electricity on
As a former Montrealer, I can personally attest to this logistical nightmare. Also, some less-than-scrupulous moving companies are not above a little last-minute rate-hike extortion, because it's not like you can easily find another mover.
I always managed to avoid July 1st, skirting around it and being ready to offer money to other tenants (either incoming or outgoing) to do so. I had a real nightmare: arriving to your place and finding out the old tenant is not packed up yet...
I had a company extort me AFTER moving. They started by booking too many customers, so they got to our place 4 hours late. Then, once the job was almost done, they said they wouldn't move the rest of the stuff upstairs until they got paid in cash! And then they said there was a premium to be paid and if we didn't, things could get physical... I've often wondered if it was a mafia thing. Sounds like something the Montréal mafia would do for sure.
@@JFHeroux I heard about this July 1st "thang" and moving companies from all over would descend on Montreal from as far away as NB and Manitoba. I was in the moving game in BC for a decade. Loved the industry. But like any "easy entry" industry it attracts the sketchy "cash" types. Street rules. I had huge customer repeats so avoided that idiocy, but the lower mainland used to move LOTS.
The logistics of moving 7% of Montreal, sounds like something that other channel would do. Edit: This comment is now about bricks. Did you know the average lifespan of a brick is around 100 years? Certainly lasts longer than the jokes on this channel.
@@thefareplayer2254 I think calling ourselves ''Quebecois'' is pathetic.It is the name the British gave us. We actually are the real ''Canadians'', it is the rest of the country that is not .Louix XIV called us ''French Canadians''.
It has little to do with "separatism" but it has some national reasons. Since people don't celebrate the 1st of July (they will rather celebrate the St-John on June 24), it's a convenient day off.
It's not THAT much of a coincidence, the 1st of July is a Federal holiday but it isn't celebrated in Quebec (people will rather celebrate the St-John on June 24), so it's a convenient day off of without major activities.
Coincidentally tomorrow if you walk around the Plateau and Westmount you will have a pick of expensive discarded items. Couple years ago I got a Technics SL-1200, Gamecube, pair of 200$/each speakers and an iPhone 4 box with 125 Ecstasy pills.
Even my mom doesn't have a landline anymore. If you have a cellphone on you at all times, the landline is redundant even if it's only $10 extra with a cable subscription.
My Dad has a landline still and will never get rid of it because he refuses to learn how to use his brick cellphone he's been paying the bill on for nearly 20 years, and yet has never made a single call on it. Crazy level of willful ignorance and being too obdurate to learn.
I only have a landline because it makes the internet $20 cheaper. Without the landline, I’d pay 180. With it, I pay 160. I am charged 10$ for the landline.
ugh barely the prices went up between 10 and 18% depending of what you’re looking for... and thats with the exodus of last year so like landlords are feasting on us rn@@devonwanner8457
"Should we say Montreal the French way or the English way?" "Let's just split it down the middle. English first." "Has nothing to do with Canada Day, it's just a coincidence" Quebec separatists: *Or is it?*
@@oliviersavard8676 Ah, je vois que tu utilises la bonne vieille technique de "tu peux pas avoir de gueule de bois quand t'arrêtes pas de boire". Un classique.
As a Montrealer, I have to say that I don’t believe it’s entirely unrelated why moving day and Canada day happen at the same time! While I’m sure the original reason for it is entirely unrelated, as explained in the video, I’m certain that a reason that it maintained popularity is BECAUSE it’s on Canada day. In Quebec, we don’t really celebrate Canada day that much. We have St-Jean day (essentially “Quebec day”) on June 24th, only a week earlier so usually Canada day doesn’t get much hype. That means that July 1st is also a good time to move because most people don’t have to work on July 1st and it’s also a holiday that most of us don’t care about missing! Also, in terms of the logistical nightmare that is moving day, other places that are affected are animal shelters! Tons of people can’t/don’t keep their pets with them when they move, which means that animal shelters get flooded!
These days activating, deactivating and moving subscriber addresses for landlines is done through software so it's just a few mouse clicks for phone company staff.
@@gabbismith It's about Quebec French being weird and also maybe their language police stamping out EVIL English words 😂 You can probably use your *téléphone intelligent* to find a UA-cam video about Quebec French vs French French.
@@The98597thMark On dit rarement "téléphone intelligent", à la place on dit juste "cell". (oui "on" est utilisé à la 1ière personne du pluriel au Québec, qu'est-c'tu vas en faire?)
That's not wholly a Quebec thing, but rather a Francophone Congress thing. They're a group of Francophone populations around the world who vote on language standards that aren't really binding to anyone, but attempt to prevent the language dying (it is). Quebec is a member "nation" and tends to stick to the stuffy grammar decided at the Congress. A good example of their direct handiwork is compact discs. In English, it becomes CD, but the Francophone Congress consider "le CD" with the English pronunciation "see dee" to be an atrocity. Instead, it is "une disque-compact" and when abbreviated as une DC is pronounced all Froggy, "day say".
Davis, California is similar. It's a college town with some weird laws about building new housing, and too many old people who don't like the fact that it's a college town (even though the university has been there since 1908), but the school is obligated to accept as many students as the UC system tells them to, so there are too many students and not quite enough housing. (there are only enough dorms for freshmen, so 75% or more of undergrads live off campus in normal adult apartments) everyone's leases are september 1st through august 31st, and that's if you're lucky. some places don't try to do a 24 hour turnaround and make the leases start anywhere from the 3rd to the 10th. so everyone who's moving that year is going to be homeless for at least one night. you have to start looking in january and sign a lease in february or march to get anything decent, and if you need to rent a uhaul you have to reserve it months in advance or get one from an hour away.
I’m living in an equivalent type of town in the UK but competition’s high and landlords want to scam everyone out of as much as possible, so our moving day is like Quebec’s - July 1st. Mainly freshers have accommodation on campus, then have to move out after, and final year students don’t want to be paying for a lease for the 3 months of summer after they’ve finished their degree. A lot of people would like to get a lease starting on September 1st (so they don’t have to pay for the preceding summer, when most people move back in with parents anyway) but there are so few most people can’t get them. If you want a place to live in for September to July of second year, you gotta start looking November-December of Freshers, cos a lot of places are gone by January, and you gotta be willing to pay rent from July even if you’re not going to use the room. I know people who were living with parents for the summer and had to take expensive trains across the country on July 1st so they could pick up their keys from the landlord and do the mandatory moving in fire safety checks, then take the train straight back to their parents’ place and stay there till September
I'm a landlord in Ontario. I can't even imagine cleaning a single rental unit, let alone several, on a single day. My tenants deserve to move into a clean and well kept place. I need to make repairs after even the best tenants leave. I almost always have to repaint (at a minimum) if it's a longer lease. I was vaguely aware of moving day, but this is nuts.
Depends if whether or not the repairs are big or small. My uncle is a landlord and I help him out from time to time, and there have been occasions where we repaired some small things (faucet that slowly drips, handrail that needs its screws tightened, etc.) a week or 2 after the new tenants move in. So far, no tenants have expressed any displeasure about this. There's also the fact that my uncle informs them of the timing of the small repairs well before they sign the lease.
@@ThePooper3000 For sure, I can clean a unit in a day or less normally. But then I'll probably have to paint and find whatever weirdness the old tenant has left for me. Without fail every single tenant has left at least one weird thing that becomes my responsibility. It's a good business, I don't mind, but I want to make sure my newbies have an actual home. I just don't want a new tenant moving into a scuzzy place. I just can't imagine an old tenant moving out, and then moving a new tenant in on the same day. Especially if every single other rental is doing it at the same time. I couldn't even hire someone to help.
@@TheTransitmtl that sounds great but I never trust tenants to do the cleaning. It’s never thorough enough. I also want to inspect the place after they leave. This determines if they get their deposit back or not. 9 times out of 10 they do not because something is broken. I also almost always replace the carpet. There is no way I’d want every one moving on the same day.
While these days any date could be set as the renewal date on Quebec's standardized residential lease, if the date is unspecified than the law defaults to July 1st as the renewal date. Another Quebec specific holiday you may want to do a video on is the "Construction Holiday." Its two sets of two week long periods where most construction projects shut-down completely to allow workers a paid break / vacation period. The Winter Construction Holiday occurs on two weeks that Christmas and New Year Day fall on, and the Summer Construction Holiday occurs during the last week of July and the first week of August.
The summer construction holiday was moved to the last two full weeks of July a few years ago. It doesn't go into August anymore. For example, the 2021 construction holiday is from July 19th to the 30th.
I'm from Quebec and the main reason things are like this is that Quebec day is on June 24th. 2 straight weeks of partying is a bit much so we just the 2nd week for moving day.
Boston has a very similar problem come September 1, as a huge percentage of the leases in the area correspond (ish) to the academic calendar. Every moving truck in 4 states sells out, old furniture litters the sidewalks, first-timers who ignore roadsigns get moving trucks stuck under bridges on Storrow Drive. Fun for all!
This type of thing also happens in the greater Boston area, but on September 1. The reason for that is that Boston has an enormous amount of college students who move in right as the school year is starting in late August/early September. Early September is locally called "Allston Christmas" because of the tremendous amount of stuff that departing students leave by the curb in the Allston neighborhood and surrounding areas, much of which gets claimed by locals and incoming students before the trash collectors come. And good luck to anyone trying to rent a moving truck within 100 miles of Boston that weekend.
There is something missing in the video. Nowadays, it's rather custom than law to move on the first of July. The reason everyone does it is that it's a national holiday, Canada day, that absolutely no one gives a flying fuck about, since the Québec National Holiday, Saint-Jean Baptiste, is about a week earlier (24th of June), and that's the occasion on which Québécois have a big party. Therefore, you know long in advance you won't have to work that day.
Having moved out on July 1st and other dates, it's so easier to move on July 1st since every single one of my friends have the day off, no matter which week day it is, and pizza+beer is sure to rally all of them.
Quebec is also the only province with a civil code, which is based on the French Code Napoléon (Napoleonic Code). The rest of Canada uses Common law. In early pre-Confederation Canada, Quebec was also referred as 'Lower Canada', while future Ontario was referred to a 'Upper Canada'.
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear jos
Another factor to consider - Quebec has a provincial holiday on June 24th which is their big patriotic holiday. Exactly a week later they have a federal holiday (Canada Day) that most Quebecers don’t care about - and so it’s a good time to move.
Hopefully your move went well? My family moved on the 30th and we had an unusual heat wave here in Vancouver the few days right before. Temps got past 40 degrees.
Why am I so shocked that you’re accurately presenting the real reason why moving day is July 1st and that this day is NOT mandatory? So many infotainment and actual information outlets regularly get it wrong. Thank you for not making me roll my eyes and providing accurate information.
Was planning to move from Toronto to montreal so I went last weekend to look at apartments. Lots of downtown 1br in the $1.4-1.5k range (500 sqft) near the métro whereas it’s around $2k here in downtown Toronto.
My college town has a similar thing where leases are over by default on May 31st. That's 2 weeks after the semester is over so there usually isn't any issue with moving out on time unless youre taking summer classes
You really didn’t need to call me out with that line about a well-indexed Magic the Gathering collection. I was actually planning to sort some new cards I got last week into my well-indexed Magic the Gathering collection today and this video just reminded me of that
I wonder how many other cities have a similar issue. This is also the case for Boston where rental leases tend to end on Aug 31. It becomes super stressful to try to book moving trucks around that date, and a lot of people dump furniture on the street
@@oksowhat It's two-part One because of the absurdity of having a landline in the age of the smartphone, and (two) because of this, you can sarcastically wearily put a small number like "7" right next to all the big numbers like the moving population of 115,000
Lol I was walking around Quebec City on Canada's Day today and I saw a total of 1 Canadian flag. It was a tiny plastic flag being waved by a small Asian boy in front of the Parliament.
It reminds me an awful lot of "Couch day" in Boston when all the college kid's leases would expire (because they signed them the same month, when the fall semester started), and there would be discarded furniture along every single side street, because kids moving out wouldn't be able to move their couches and shit. I had a roomate who would go out with a gang of his buddies every year and just nab every decent couch they could find. One week our suite was wall to wall couches. I had to climb over three couches to get to my room. I got to keep two of the couches at least, and also nabbed myself a nice armchair (that my roommates threw out on me).
I created my own holiday called "Canamerica night" from the sunset at St.Johns Newfoundland to sunrise in Victoria British Columbia where the differences between Canada and America become nonexistent and it's a nighttime merger of Canada Day and Independence Day.
There is something not mentioned in the video, a side effect that is also very much a hassle. The law regulating the rental contracts mentions that if it lasts at least 12 months, the owner may send the renewal notice as soon as 6 months before the end of the contract. In most cases, that means January 1st; most tenants receive it in January, with 30 days to respond to it. Not responding means automatic renewal with the contract modifications accepted. This means that, for someone who's contract is ending on June 30th, year X, they need to decide in February of year X where they will be in June of year X+1, almost 18 months later. And you just cannot break those contracts (there are no 1-month or 3-month notices), meaning if you have to move, you are still responsible for the rent unless the owner agrees to sublet directly to him (no reason for the owner to do so, except being nice), while you also have to pay for your new lodging (when you can find one off-season).
1:03 "old france but with a spritely different accent" and the phrase fin de semain pops up which translates to end of week, which is what french canadians call the weekend oppose to france who calls it "le weekend" just with a france french accent.
Great pronunciation of "régime seigneurial!" Your prononciation of Montreal sounds like a mix between the English and French pronunciations though, both of them are correct, just pick one! 😉👍
Former resident of Montreal here. Also September 1st is the second moving day crunch of the city, usually around University ghettos (e.g. McGill's). Another reason of these crunches is most landlords only rent in one-year leases blocks, and very rarely go on monthly afterwards, like other provinces. Hence, once the one-year lease expire, they renew for another year, and this date is usually July 1st (or Sept 1st). Any accommodation changes at dates other than these two are often actually sublets. Happy Canada days to all of my fellow Canadians!
I am from quebec and my parents often tell me that Canada day is moving day, that apartment leases start on July 1st. I always thought that it`s super strange
It's interesting that it's in July, I've only experienced something similar to it in my old university town, the weekend after the graduation ceremonies, typically two weeks after the last classes end, and the weekend before registrations opened for the year usually had the same dates year-on-year, so when all the old students left, and when the new first year's arrived were the busiest times for all the lease renewels and second hand furniture stores in the city, all the hotels, restaurants too and the bookstores two weeks after that. Interestingly, those weekends also saw the local grocery stores make more sales than Christmas week.
How does this work logistically? I'm a property manager. If someone gives me notice on June 10th that they will move out June 30, we do their move-out stuff, and the unit is vacated. But someone else can't just move in that afternoon. We do a whole bunch of maintenance on the unit, probably replacing a bunch of fixtures, flooring, maybe doors and cabinets, maybe resurfacing the counters or shower. The vendors who do the work often need the unit to themselves, for example the resurfacing is nasty to breathe and nobody can work in there during that part, the flooring has to happen before cabinetry and if you're smart you do the painting before flooring. Then there's all the finish stuff like appliances, window shades, outlet covers, etc. If someone lived in the unit for like 10 years the turn could take over a week at best. Especially since all the vendors cram so much work into the same few days every year. If it's a newly remodeled unit and the last tenant left after just 1 year, and all you have is some minor maintenance repairs and a paint touch-up, you still need a unit clean and carpet clean. I really don't see how you could expect someone to move out of a unit and do all that and move the next person in same-day. So best-case scenario where it's minor work done in-house, you're scheduling the new move-in on 7/2 or 7/3. But you have to hurry, because both the outgoing and incoming tenants have all their stuff in a moving truck and they're staying in a hotel. I'll tell you, syncing up leases on a particular month is a nightmare. When a new building does a lease-up, often next year there's a ton of simultaneous move-outs. So community managers using an analysis system will often offer 11-month or 10-month leases at the same monthly rate to spread out the chaos.
BRO THANK YOU COR TBIS.. I legit almost moved this month to Montreal lol.. I live like 30 min from there and haven’t been able to find a place until September. This makes so much sense now
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 I think you should refresh your references about Detroit, it's been 4 centuries since there was any sociocultural french presence in there, same thing for Quebec in 3 centuries.
Just to be clear : July 1st isn't mandatory at all. For historical reasons it just means many leases are dated and renew on July 1st. It's also been embraced because it creates a day where the market is wide open with lots of available apartments, in a game of "musical chairs". If you're happy with your place, you have no obligation to leave it on July 1st.
This is the missing link of what I needed to understand after watching the video. Thanks!
Okay, what if circumstances require you to move to Quebec on (say) 7/15? You're pretty well screwed for a year, right?
@@bcubed72 not at all. There are plenty of leases that start and end throughout the year
This happens in Maryland too. Probably everywhere in the US and Canada
The fact that lease renewals typically need to be confirmed in around February (at least in MTL) it can be a bit of a headache, where you need to commit to moving before you've located a new apartment.
I had no idea the fact that most leases renew on July 1st was a unique thing about Quebec. Moving day logistics aside, it's pretty convenient to have a few months in the year (April-June) where there are so many options available when selecting a new place to rent.
I feel like a schmuck for signing my lease in January... though with BC weather getting evicted in July rather than January would be a death sentence!
I feel like in most places, people would get upset at how that restricts their movement to a few months of the year. Americans would riot again
I mean, there’s availability across the year, but most leases are on the 1st of July.
J'adore ta chaine Bismuth
Yeah, when I read the title of the video, I was like "And that's surprising?"
"and reconnecting nearly 7 different landlines." Best phone joke ever.
What is the status of landlines in the US and Canada?
In Norway it is passé.
Only grannies has them.
The phonecompanies will not maintain the copperwires unless there is a serious PR backlash.
@@Espen.Johannesen About the same for residential use here. As a 911 dispatcher, I think it's great that older people still use them because it's so much easier to know where they are when they have a medical problem. I might actually decide to get a landline for myself when I get older for that reason.
The notion of disconnecting and reconnecting wires to accommodate a subscriber move is almost as comically archaic as gathering wood to cook. The device I am typing this comment on is capable of maintaining a video call while moving at highway speeds.
Came to the comments for this. It took me a second to process what HAI had just said and I was reeling afterwards lol
Thankyou Eric I almost missed that. m
Next video on Wendover Productions:
The Logistics of Moving 7% of Montreal
It is genuinely interesting though. Many moving companies in neighbouring Ontario and New Brunswick actually relocate to Québec for a week, so if you live in Ontario or New Brunswick, moving also becomes more expensive around that week.
...via cargo aircraft
Planes?
2:25 it reminds me that Hydro-Québec, the state-owned electrical company, cannot cut your electricity during winter if you don't pay it. They will cut it in April if you didn't have a agreement with them or something like that. But, before that, Hydro-Québec is required to keep the electricity on
As a former Montrealer, I can personally attest to this logistical nightmare. Also, some less-than-scrupulous moving companies are not above a little last-minute rate-hike extortion, because it's not like you can easily find another mover.
I always managed to avoid July 1st, skirting around it and being ready to offer money to other tenants (either incoming or outgoing) to do so. I had a real nightmare: arriving to your place and finding out the old tenant is not packed up yet...
I had a company extort me AFTER moving. They started by booking too many customers, so they got to our place 4 hours late. Then, once the job was almost done, they said they wouldn't move the rest of the stuff upstairs until they got paid in cash! And then they said there was a premium to be paid and if we didn't, things could get physical...
I've often wondered if it was a mafia thing. Sounds like something the Montréal mafia would do for sure.
@@JFHeroux I heard about this July 1st "thang" and moving companies from all over would descend on Montreal from as far away as NB and Manitoba. I was in the moving game in BC for a decade. Loved the industry. But like any "easy entry" industry it attracts the sketchy "cash" types. Street rules. I had huge customer repeats so avoided that idiocy, but the lower mainland used to move LOTS.
I thought you said Montrealogist
The logistics of moving 7% of Montreal, sounds like something that other channel would do.
Edit: This comment is now about bricks. Did you know the average lifespan of a brick is around 100 years? Certainly lasts longer than the jokes on this channel.
You mean that Sam is not the guy from the other channel? (joking)
@@weebishusername9288 I’m reporting them for that and the pfp
@@novacentorium4943 I second this
*oh no*
Uhhh this comment is about bricks!
@Opecuted I found it
It's the one that's about to crash into your house hehehe *vrooooooom*
I laughed so hard at that landlines joke
I don't get it
@@Lidoi1 very few people use landlines anymore.
Me too. Although I'll admit I was shocked the number was so high. LOL!!!
They said something like 7 landlines would have to be changed after saying around 115,000 people were moving .
I loved it too 😊
2 videos about canada in a row. Being a canadian, this is pretty epic.
Hate to break it to you but it is...
@Heberth R. U sure about that?
@Heberth R. it literally fucking is
@Heberth R. Then what is it? France's son?
5 Catholic churches have been burned down in a row so far up there, what are you guys doing to stop it?
In Quebec, we joke that we move the first of july so that we can politely refuse when a friend invite you to celebrate canada's birthday.
So polite. How Canadian.
It's beer and pizza either way. The difference is just whether you'll be carrying a couch or not.
Because Quebecois aren't really "Canadian," are they?
@@thefareplayer2254 I think calling ourselves ''Quebecois'' is pathetic.It is the name the British gave us.
We actually are the real ''Canadians'', it is the rest of the country that is not .Louix XIV called us ''French Canadians''.
@@rpoutine3271 En plus on celebre un pays fonder sur le meutre de millier de metis dans louest Candien Yoohoo!
This is the most media attention Canada has ever received including inside Canada
Yup
🤣🤣🤣
Canada have been all over the world news lately with the hot weather and cultural genocide...
@@OlivierBL That got dark fast.
Besides the residential schools?
Hot Take: Quebec intentionally does it on July 1st as a low-key separatist symbol.
It has little to do with "separatism" but it has some national reasons. Since people don't celebrate the 1st of July (they will rather celebrate the St-John on June 24), it's a convenient day off.
That's.... Kind of true, somehow.
It was a Liberal (federalist, pro-canadian) government who has moved Quebec's Moving Day from May 1st to July 1st.
More like, the fact it's a paid holiday gives people a whole day off to move
Yes go on Quebec bashing!!!
The coincidence is eerie!
Am helping out a friend move and Montreal's a mess
The coincidence is Erie!
The coincidence is eri!
It's not THAT much of a coincidence, the 1st of July is a Federal holiday but it isn't celebrated in Quebec (people will rather celebrate the St-John on June 24), so it's a convenient day off of without major activities.
Coincidentally tomorrow if you walk around the Plateau and Westmount you will have a pick of expensive discarded items. Couple years ago I got a Technics SL-1200, Gamecube, pair of 200$/each speakers and an iPhone 4 box with 125 Ecstasy pills.
I see we have very similar names
alright quebecois here, I'm actually impressed at your pronunciation of régime seigneurial.
Why are you Quebecois
Yeah it really wasn’t as bad as you would’ve expected
@@gnosis2871 What sort of question is this?
@@gnosis2871 I'm just speculating here but maybe because he/she lives there
That nearly 7 landlines figure seems generous.
Underrated joke
Even my mom doesn't have a landline anymore. If you have a cellphone on you at all times, the landline is redundant even if it's only $10 extra with a cable subscription.
My Dad has a landline still and will never get rid of it because he refuses to learn how to use his brick cellphone he's been paying the bill on for nearly 20 years, and yet has never made a single call on it. Crazy level of willful ignorance and being too obdurate to learn.
I only have a landline because it makes the internet $20 cheaper. Without the landline, I’d pay 180. With it, I pay 160. I am charged 10$ for the landline.
@@redfailhawk 180 in wich currency? I recently replaced my old copper line with a shiny new glass fiber
"a giant unnecessary extension of France."
General Wolfe: *Ah I see you're a man of culture as well*
Even more moving here then usual due to last year's moving day being a little less movey then usual.
Than*
I heard it was a renters market this year
ugh barely the prices went up between 10 and 18% depending of what you’re looking for... and thats with the exodus of last year so like landlords are feasting on us rn@@devonwanner8457
I actually didn't expect you to pronounce "Régime seigneurial" this well
i know right, he got a lot of stuff wrong on a previous video so it seems he's leveled up his pronouncing skills
also hello fellow yugioh fan
Canadian government:
It's Canada Day! Be proud of your country-
Wait, why is everyone moving instead of celebrating...
Guys?
As someone from Montreal, hearing “appartments are fairly affordable” makes me wanna eat my pancreas.
Oh please go rent a studio apartment in Los Angeles and then you can complain
Ben Hinman has a point... You can also try NYC for that too.
@@justyourlocalbernana1823 but for Canada it’s is actually very expensive. It will always seem cheap compared to the us because of conversion rate
@@eye2eye899 Compared to Toronto, Montreal is dirt cheap. Its so bad here that Barrie now has more expensive housing than Montreal.
Try living in Vancouver or Victoria. Mtl is quite cheap in comparison.
"Should we say Montreal the French way or the English way?"
"Let's just split it down the middle. English first."
"Has nothing to do with Canada Day, it's just a coincidence"
Quebec separatists: *Or is it?*
Wow, I feel called out by the opener for watching this exactly a year after it's original publication. DAMN YOU SAM!
Canadians love Canada, Quebec loves déménagement
No lies detected
(Also, we're usually still wasted from the celebrations of June 24th, our national holiday, so we take the time off to move)
@@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine quand tu te défonces les autres jours aussi
@@oliviersavard8676 Ah, je vois que tu utilises la bonne vieille technique de "tu peux pas avoir de gueule de bois quand t'arrêtes pas de boire". Un classique.
I moved apartments today, feel like 8 people in my small street were moving too which is pretty intense. I love the 1st of July here
As a Montrealer, I have to say that I don’t believe it’s entirely unrelated why moving day and Canada day happen at the same time! While I’m sure the original reason for it is entirely unrelated, as explained in the video, I’m certain that a reason that it maintained popularity is BECAUSE it’s on Canada day. In Quebec, we don’t really celebrate Canada day that much. We have St-Jean day (essentially “Quebec day”) on June 24th, only a week earlier so usually Canada day doesn’t get much hype. That means that July 1st is also a good time to move because most people don’t have to work on July 1st and it’s also a holiday that most of us don’t care about missing!
Also, in terms of the logistical nightmare that is moving day, other places that are affected are animal shelters! Tons of people can’t/don’t keep their pets with them when they move, which means that animal shelters get flooded!
Happy Half-As-Anniversary to this video!
“Reconnecting nearly seven different landlines”
It took me a while to get that 😂
I'm still not 100% certain whether it was a mistake or a snarky joke. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
I dont get it
@@eetuthereindeer6671 they only reconnected seven land lines because nobody uses land lines anymore except for those seven people
@@NoodleProductions ahhh got it :D thank you
These days activating, deactivating and moving subscriber addresses for landlines is done through software so it's just a few mouse clicks for phone company staff.
Happy Half-as-Anniversary!
Rerouting hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail, $10 million in cleanup costs, and reconnecting almost seven different landlines. LOL
The tradition says that the person who moves must provide pizza for all the helpers, I work in a pizza shop and we were sold out by 19h30 on july 1st
The _fin de semaine_ crack was sublime, thank you for that one.
can you explain it to me? i don’t get it 😭
@@gabbismith It's about Quebec French being weird and also maybe their language police stamping out EVIL English words 😂 You can probably use your *téléphone intelligent* to find a UA-cam video about Quebec French vs French French.
@@gabbismith To be clear, in French French, it's just "le weekend".
@@The98597thMark On dit rarement "téléphone intelligent", à la place on dit juste "cell". (oui "on" est utilisé à la 1ière personne du pluriel au Québec, qu'est-c'tu vas en faire?)
That's not wholly a Quebec thing, but rather a Francophone Congress thing. They're a group of Francophone populations around the world who vote on language standards that aren't really binding to anyone, but attempt to prevent the language dying (it is). Quebec is a member "nation" and tends to stick to the stuffy grammar decided at the Congress.
A good example of their direct handiwork is compact discs. In English, it becomes CD, but the Francophone Congress consider "le CD" with the English pronunciation "see dee" to be an atrocity. Instead, it is "une disque-compact" and when abbreviated as une DC is pronounced all Froggy, "day say".
Davis, California is similar. It's a college town with some weird laws about building new housing, and too many old people who don't like the fact that it's a college town (even though the university has been there since 1908), but the school is obligated to accept as many students as the UC system tells them to, so there are too many students and not quite enough housing. (there are only enough dorms for freshmen, so 75% or more of undergrads live off campus in normal adult apartments) everyone's leases are september 1st through august 31st, and that's if you're lucky. some places don't try to do a 24 hour turnaround and make the leases start anywhere from the 3rd to the 10th. so everyone who's moving that year is going to be homeless for at least one night. you have to start looking in january and sign a lease in february or march to get anything decent, and if you need to rent a uhaul you have to reserve it months in advance or get one from an hour away.
I’m living in an equivalent type of town in the UK but competition’s high and landlords want to scam everyone out of as much as possible, so our moving day is like Quebec’s - July 1st. Mainly freshers have accommodation on campus, then have to move out after, and final year students don’t want to be paying for a lease for the 3 months of summer after they’ve finished their degree. A lot of people would like to get a lease starting on September 1st (so they don’t have to pay for the preceding summer, when most people move back in with parents anyway) but there are so few most people can’t get them. If you want a place to live in for September to July of second year, you gotta start looking November-December of Freshers, cos a lot of places are gone by January, and you gotta be willing to pay rent from July even if you’re not going to use the room. I know people who were living with parents for the summer and had to take expensive trains across the country on July 1st so they could pick up their keys from the landlord and do the mandatory moving in fire safety checks, then take the train straight back to their parents’ place and stay there till September
I'm a landlord in Ontario. I can't even imagine cleaning a single rental unit, let alone several, on a single day. My tenants deserve to move into a clean and well kept place. I need to make repairs after even the best tenants leave. I almost always have to repaint (at a minimum) if it's a longer lease.
I was vaguely aware of moving day, but this is nuts.
Depends if whether or not the repairs are big or small. My uncle is a landlord and I help him out from time to time, and there have been occasions where we repaired some small things (faucet that slowly drips, handrail that needs its screws tightened, etc.) a week or 2 after the new tenants move in.
So far, no tenants have expressed any displeasure about this. There's also the fact that my uncle informs them of the timing of the small repairs well before they sign the lease.
@@ThePooper3000 For sure, I can clean a unit in a day or less normally. But then I'll probably have to paint and find whatever weirdness the old tenant has left for me.
Without fail every single tenant has left at least one weird thing that becomes my responsibility. It's a good business, I don't mind, but I want to make sure my newbies have an actual home.
I just don't want a new tenant moving into a scuzzy place.
I just can't imagine an old tenant moving out, and then moving a new tenant in on the same day.
Especially if every single other rental is doing it at the same time. I couldn't even hire someone to help.
In Quebec tenants are responsible for the cleaning. As for painting landlord doesnt have to paint he can just pay for the new paint
In all lease that I had, I was responsible for the cleaning and the painting.
@@TheTransitmtl that sounds great but I never trust tenants to do the cleaning. It’s never thorough enough. I also want to inspect the place after they leave. This determines if they get their deposit back or not. 9 times out of 10 they do not because something is broken. I also almost always replace the carpet. There is no way I’d want every one moving on the same day.
While these days any date could be set as the renewal date on Quebec's standardized residential lease, if the date is unspecified than the law defaults to July 1st as the renewal date.
Another Quebec specific holiday you may want to do a video on is the "Construction Holiday." Its two sets of two week long periods where most construction projects shut-down completely to allow workers a paid break / vacation period. The Winter Construction Holiday occurs on two weeks that Christmas and New Year Day fall on, and the Summer Construction Holiday occurs during the last week of July and the first week of August.
The summer construction holiday was moved to the last two full weeks of July a few years ago. It doesn't go into August anymore. For example, the 2021 construction holiday is from July 19th to the 30th.
Here in Germany, every time an old WW2-Bomb is found, its moving day.
🤣🤣🤣💀
I'm from Quebec and the main reason things are like this is that Quebec day is on June 24th. 2 straight weeks of partying is a bit much so we just the 2nd week for moving day.
Suggested this just 1 hour before the chaos begins.
Boston has a very similar problem come September 1, as a huge percentage of the leases in the area correspond (ish) to the academic calendar. Every moving truck in 4 states sells out, old furniture litters the sidewalks, first-timers who ignore roadsigns get moving trucks stuck under bridges on Storrow Drive. Fun for all!
My dad explained all of this to me as he is from Quebec. He has told me so many stories of him moving with his friends helping him out
Don't forget the pizza! (as your dad)
Beer and pizza 🤘
This type of thing also happens in the greater Boston area, but on September 1. The reason for that is that Boston has an enormous amount of college students who move in right as the school year is starting in late August/early September. Early September is locally called "Allston Christmas" because of the tremendous amount of stuff that departing students leave by the curb in the Allston neighborhood and surrounding areas, much of which gets claimed by locals and incoming students before the trash collectors come. And good luck to anyone trying to rent a moving truck within 100 miles of Boston that weekend.
There is something missing in the video. Nowadays, it's rather custom than law to move on the first of July. The reason everyone does it is that it's a national holiday, Canada day, that absolutely no one gives a flying fuck about, since the Québec National Holiday, Saint-Jean Baptiste, is about a week earlier (24th of June), and that's the occasion on which Québécois have a big party. Therefore, you know long in advance you won't have to work that day.
No one in the west gives a fuck about Canada day either. Canada ends at the Ontario borders....and quite frankly they can have it.
Having moved out on July 1st and other dates, it's so easier to move on July 1st since every single one of my friends have the day off, no matter which week day it is, and pizza+beer is sure to rally all of them.
@@bowriver1 . Oh shut up. Plenty of us are proud Canadians who care about this country.
@@rebecca4680 bet you are in Ontario
@@bowriver1 Yeah, out west we cancelled Canada Day.
Quebec is also the only province with a civil code, which is based on the French Code Napoléon (Napoleonic Code). The rest of Canada uses Common law.
In early pre-Confederation Canada, Quebec was also referred as 'Lower Canada', while future Ontario was referred to a 'Upper Canada'.
Second Canadian episode in a row!
I love that you updated the title
And to think it took them 5 years to explain this to me in school
NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear jos
@@AxxLAfriku this is what schizophrenia looks like
@@AxxLAfriku who are you again?
Another factor to consider - Quebec has a provincial holiday on June 24th which is their big patriotic holiday. Exactly a week later they have a federal holiday (Canada Day) that most Quebecers don’t care about - and so it’s a good time to move.
And here I thought it was a an extra long weekend so moving on this day caused the least amount disruption to normal life
I'm from Quebec and I have to say that your prononciation of Régime Seigneuriale is pretty good.
I’m moving today, it’s 39* today (July 1st) in Calgary, and it sucks.
That is insane
Celsius ;-)
Hopefully your move went well? My family moved on the 30th and we had an unusual heat wave here in Vancouver the few days right before. Temps got past 40 degrees.
i’m from Alberta but call Montreal home for quite a while now. two HAI videos about my homelands has been a fun stress relief for moving day!
bruh i'm moving today
Dire « Bruh » est _normie_ !
Saying Bruh is normie!
Why am I so shocked that you’re accurately presenting the real reason why moving day is July 1st and that this day is NOT mandatory? So many infotainment and actual information outlets regularly get it wrong. Thank you for not making me roll my eyes and providing accurate information.
Keep up the content on Canada, Sam. As a Canadian, I love it!
Happy Canada Day.
@@paraskep5080 Thanks!
Canada > Usoa
happy half as anniversary!
Sam: “apartements are relatively affordable”
Not in downtown...
no its not haha
@@DyslexicMitochondria Hey bro i watch ur videoss. Love ur channeI
Compared to Toronto? Or even worse Vancouver? Montreal rents are a dream
Montreal has the cheapest real estate of major cities in Canada. It’s not cheap, but it’s a dream compared to Toronto.
Was planning to move from Toronto to montreal so I went last weekend to look at apartments. Lots of downtown 1br in the $1.4-1.5k range (500 sqft) near the métro whereas it’s around $2k here in downtown Toronto.
My college town has a similar thing where leases are over by default on May 31st. That's 2 weeks after the semester is over so there usually isn't any issue with moving out on time unless youre taking summer classes
You’ve now done two Canada videos in a row. Congratulations. You now qualify for temporary residence in Canada (outside of Quebec and BC).
What happens in Quebec and BC
@@chappers666770 Québec exige que vous connaissiez le français. And BC is overcrowded, obscenely expensive, and half of it is on fire.
@@ChaoticAphrodite lmao k
You really didn’t need to call me out with that line about a well-indexed Magic the Gathering collection. I was actually planning to sort some new cards I got last week into my well-indexed Magic the Gathering collection today and this video just reminded me of that
My whole life I have carefully negotiated my leases to avoid it to end on July 1. I saved soooo much money.
I wonder how many other cities have a similar issue.
This is also the case for Boston where rental leases tend to end on Aug 31. It becomes super stressful to try to book moving trucks around that date, and a lot of people dump furniture on the street
Nearly 7 different land lines!! I died
can you explain this from heven or hell
@@oksowhat Everyone with a landline subscription needs it reconnected at their new place
@@scrambledmandible oksy, its just that i didnt laughed at the joke, okay thanks
@@oksowhat It's two-part
One because of the absurdity of having a landline in the age of the smartphone, and (two) because of this, you can sarcastically wearily put a small number like "7" right next to all the big numbers like the moving population of 115,000
@@scrambledmandible oh now i understand, its a nice joke but my iq was low so i didnt understood
Happy half-as-anniversary. True fans just get it.
No joke, Quebec French-language radio has referred multiple times to today being "National Moving Day".
No mention so far of Canada Day...
Lol I was walking around Quebec City on Canada's Day today and I saw a total of 1 Canadian flag. It was a tiny plastic flag being waved by a small Asian boy in front of the Parliament.
@@Charles-xu7pu old montreal was full of tourists celebrating canada day but yeah that was pretty much it
I actually heard "we'll be here for you this Moving Day" on an English station last week here in Montreal. I thought it was funny
It reminds me an awful lot of "Couch day" in Boston when all the college kid's leases would expire (because they signed them the same month, when the fall semester started), and there would be discarded furniture along every single side street, because kids moving out wouldn't be able to move their couches and shit.
I had a roomate who would go out with a gang of his buddies every year and just nab every decent couch they could find. One week our suite was wall to wall couches. I had to climb over three couches to get to my room. I got to keep two of the couches at least, and also nabbed myself a nice armchair (that my roommates threw out on me).
Americans:Everyone, it's only 3 days until the 4th of July!
Canadians:😀...
Well it's a different country...
I created my own holiday called "Canamerica night" from the sunset at St.Johns Newfoundland to sunrise in Victoria British Columbia where the differences between Canada and America become nonexistent and it's a nighttime merger of Canada Day and Independence Day.
@@flp322 That's just an evil rumor invented by the left. We all know there are no other countries than America!
@@sqnope42 Nobody’s falling for that bait
Yeah, other countries have their own holidays if you can believe it
why did this get recommended to me 2 years later on July 1
"Culturally a giant, unnecessary extension of France."
Gonna make lots of friends in Quebec with that line.
Merci beaucoup pour ce commentaire! You know what go f...yourself.
Yeah, don't go insinuating we have french culture in Quebec. We hate those guy nearly as much as we hate everybody else who's not us.
I think he was ironic.
@@patriot8942 That kind of irony gets old. I'm tired of being considered the superfluous part of North America.
criss tu dis j'te jure ça m'a faite m'lever ma chaise 😂😂😂
Happy Second Half As Interesting Anniversary
Not like they usually have the stanley cup to worry about, including this year.
There is something not mentioned in the video, a side effect that is also very much a hassle. The law regulating the rental contracts mentions that if it lasts at least 12 months, the owner may send the renewal notice as soon as 6 months before the end of the contract. In most cases, that means January 1st; most tenants receive it in January, with 30 days to respond to it. Not responding means automatic renewal with the contract modifications accepted. This means that, for someone who's contract is ending on June 30th, year X, they need to decide in February of year X where they will be in June of year X+1, almost 18 months later. And you just cannot break those contracts (there are no 1-month or 3-month notices), meaning if you have to move, you are still responsible for the rent unless the owner agrees to sublet directly to him (no reason for the owner to do so, except being nice), while you also have to pay for your new lodging (when you can find one off-season).
This was absolutely hilarious to watch. Despite being a Canadian I didn’t know much about moving day, 10/10
1:03 "old france but with a spritely different accent" and the phrase fin de semain pops up which translates to end of week, which is what french canadians call the weekend oppose to france who calls it "le weekend" just with a france french accent.
Great pronunciation of "régime seigneurial!" Your prononciation of Montreal sounds like a mix between the English and French pronunciations though, both of them are correct, just pick one! 😉👍
New York City used to have a moving day as well. It went about about as smoothly as you’d imagine.
Bonne fête du déménagement à tous les Québécois!
Merci (je suis un peu en retard désolé )
I remember hiring a van and cruising around the streets on July 1st looking for unwanted furniture. We decorated our whole house this way.
1:20 Your French pronunciation is essentially perfect. Also, I strongly disagree with your suggestion that our apartments are affordable.
Compared to Toronto, Vancouver, or any other major city in the world they are dirt cheap lol. Even Ottawa is more expensive.
@@mp40submachinegun81 as someone who has only ever lived in Quebec though, it's definitely expensive by our standards. 🙂
Former resident of Montreal here. Also September 1st is the second moving day crunch of the city, usually around University ghettos (e.g. McGill's).
Another reason of these crunches is most landlords only rent in one-year leases blocks, and very rarely go on monthly afterwards, like other provinces. Hence, once the one-year lease expire, they renew for another year, and this date is usually July 1st (or Sept 1st). Any accommodation changes at dates other than these two are often actually sublets.
Happy Canada days to all of my fellow Canadians!
Boston has a similar moving day on September 1st, though I suspect that's caused by the influx of college students.
The thumbnail on this video is amazing!
I thought like someone picked up 7% of the land of Montreal and put it somewhere else
I thought they were redoing borders or something today.
And i thought it was something to do with some San Andreas fissure type of thing
Or like the Belgium farmer not so long ago that moved a border stone marker so he could plough his field easier.
I am from quebec and my parents often tell me that Canada day is moving day, that apartment leases start on July 1st. I always thought that it`s super strange
The fact that the name of the channel is half as interesting is more interesting than my life.
It's interesting that it's in July, I've only experienced something similar to it in my old university town, the weekend after the graduation ceremonies, typically two weeks after the last classes end, and the weekend before registrations opened for the year usually had the same dates year-on-year, so when all the old students left, and when the new first year's arrived were the busiest times for all the lease renewels and second hand furniture stores in the city, all the hotels, restaurants too and the bookstores two weeks after that. Interestingly, those weekends also saw the local grocery stores make more sales than Christmas week.
7 landlines 😂 cracked me up
As an Albertian now living in Quebec, this week has been fun. Thanks HAI!
Canada: Why can't you just be normal?
Quebec: *screams in Diet French*
How does this work logistically? I'm a property manager. If someone gives me notice on June 10th that they will move out June 30, we do their move-out stuff, and the unit is vacated. But someone else can't just move in that afternoon. We do a whole bunch of maintenance on the unit, probably replacing a bunch of fixtures, flooring, maybe doors and cabinets, maybe resurfacing the counters or shower. The vendors who do the work often need the unit to themselves, for example the resurfacing is nasty to breathe and nobody can work in there during that part, the flooring has to happen before cabinetry and if you're smart you do the painting before flooring. Then there's all the finish stuff like appliances, window shades, outlet covers, etc. If someone lived in the unit for like 10 years the turn could take over a week at best. Especially since all the vendors cram so much work into the same few days every year.
If it's a newly remodeled unit and the last tenant left after just 1 year, and all you have is some minor maintenance repairs and a paint touch-up, you still need a unit clean and carpet clean. I really don't see how you could expect someone to move out of a unit and do all that and move the next person in same-day. So best-case scenario where it's minor work done in-house, you're scheduling the new move-in on 7/2 or 7/3.
But you have to hurry, because both the outgoing and incoming tenants have all their stuff in a moving truck and they're staying in a hotel.
I'll tell you, syncing up leases on a particular month is a nightmare. When a new building does a lease-up, often next year there's a ton of simultaneous move-outs. So community managers using an analysis system will often offer 11-month or 10-month leases at the same monthly rate to spread out the chaos.
.... did I just hear Habitant?
ALLEZ MONTRÉAL GO HABS GO 🔵⚪🔴
note: I know les habitants were farmers, but come on, its the finals. Let me have this 😂
Clearly this is a joke. We all know Habs fans can't read or write.
@@johnladuke6475 how are Matthews and Marner doing on the PGA tour?
Go bolts
@@Rilo1999 I'll get Speedy B to check with the Als
Thanks for posting this on my moving day while I'm packing my boxes.
I would not say happy Canada Day today considering what's been going on 😅
BRO THANK YOU COR TBIS.. I legit almost moved this month to Montreal lol.. I live like 30 min from there and haven’t been able to find a place until September. This makes so much sense now
Montreal represent esti!!! Tabarnack!!! Calisse!!! I'm so early. Go HABS Go crisse!!!
Oh, a Habs fan. Congratulations on learning to read!
@@johnladuke6475 I actually hate hockey. I think I was high when I typed that. Hockey is overrated.
Lol.
@@Smokey94462 bro do not traitor us, we must win agaisnt tampa
@@judepeppers1206 Sorry
Go bolts
I'm Canadian and even lived in Montreal for a couple years and had no idea about this . Very interesting thank you for the knowledge
I mean what I will most remember from this video is our beloved author’s impeccable pronunciation of segneurial. Effectivement quel génie!
I’m a Canadian and I feel I’ve learned more from your videos about my own country than I ever did from school.
For a moment I thought the title meant Montreal was becoming the new Detroit...
they are both french
**Habs change mascot to octopus**
@@raptorfromthe6ix833 I think you should refresh your references about Detroit, it's been 4 centuries since there was any sociocultural french presence in there, same thing for Quebec in 3 centuries.
Thanks for putting in a lot of effort into this and making us learn something
As a Montréaler in his 4th decade of life, I still can't get around the idea that this isn't the way it's universally done.
The landlines joke was hands down the best Wendover/Half As Interesting joke of all time!