Toronto is the same thing. Major highway in the city under construction. Major roads under construction all at the same time. As for potholes, there are areas where the homes pay at least $15,000 in property tax but have some bad potholes and for 1 road it took 3 years to get a suspension-breaking pothole covered up.
Yep, while a disabled Canadian human rights defender in exile for trying to expose mass grave human rights violations suffer in limbo without benefits, affordable housing, safe shelter, legal assistance which all the other immigrants enjoy. And have their arbitrary arrest and court records censored by US and Mexico immigration.
The thing is that immigrants are contributing the same as citizens. All immigrants are working their asses off, paying the tax, and still getting the same crumbling infrastructure, and yeah... free stuff, but hey .. most citizens also get those free stuff right?
Born and raised in Montreal. Worked in the center into my 20s. I do miss what it used to be. Been in Mexico 15 years. Don't miss today's Canada one bit. Happy to be done with it.
Same story. It truly is a beautiful city and did not appreciate it enough when I lived there. Been in Panama for 20 yrs. Never looked back. Thanks for the tour Viva
À Montréal, just because there are construction signs, doesn't always mean there is any actual active construction going on... Interpret that however you want.
Did you know who was Camilien Houde ? He was the mayor of Montréal back in the 1950's He refuse to build a road on the Mont-Royal the road was use only by tramways and horse driver buggies back in the days. They ask him why ? he said it will pollute the tranquillity of the Mount-Royal Park . He even said if they want to built a road it would be over his dead body ! That was exactly what happened after he died in 1958 than they built the road over the mountain where the Tram used to be alone and to had insult to the injury they named it after him.
My brother has visited us for more than 10 times. Every time he saw road constructions and potholes, he said "oh Montreal". It sounds hillarious to me 😀
@0:10 C'mon man, you are wearing your politics ruins everything shirt. Did you think we would not have noticed that? I am glad I am not the only one who noticed the man in the wheelchair. The whole 9 Yards filming location and I am glad you got the church and the cheese grater building in the video. @4:16 I pitched my tent plenty of times in Montreal or should I call it MontUNREAL.
yo Viva! gotta remember that in a week, all construction workers will be gone for vacation. Meaning all those construction sites will stay in everyones way with nobody working to finish them for 2 weeks.
@Viva, Thank you so much for reminding what we are missing. Before exile I spent 6 months on Roslyn Ave near St Joe's scanning my documents. I would ride over the Mount, visit the police horses, then the Old Hockey arena grocery store, the parks with the pianos, the murals, then back to the drum circle (on Sunday), where I could pretend not to understand french when guys hit on me. aka Dystopian Justice..if only I had known about the Gainey-Collins connection 😮
As a car-less Montrealer, the harder life is for driver the easier it is for me ❤😂 Sorry not sorry, I’m freezing my ass half year long. I’ll shamelessly enjoy my car-limited summer 😘
With all due respect, I have many problems with what you are saying. The first being you not trying to bring solutions to the table and ironically having fun cycling alone on a road on a Sunday while complaining about it. People living in Montreal love to cycle and walk because it’s fast, flexible, silent and doesn’t brake roads as fast as cars do. That’s why more cycling and walking infrastructure is being built. Logically, city roads are always under construction because they are under WAY HEAVIER AND CONSTANT traffic from cars and trucks. Now don’t get me wrong, cars and truck are great for delivery and to get OUT of the city into Greater Montreal, but you don’t need that many roads for that. And then there’s you, the local or international tourist, who wants to have a great time in a city. That’s great! You really plan to do that by staying in a car, on roads ? This isn’t even ideology or politics, it’s just TRYING to think critically and logically about solutions (…I’ll admit that I also have some problems with your ideologies and political views, but getting into that is not useful to anyone).
All freedoms must be protected by law? Yeah, we do see how that’s panned out. If it was written in English it probably would have been removed by now, as have been some of our rights!
Where are the massively cracking overpasses that my dad and I got lost on in 2006? (Otherwise a great road trip from Arkansas and through much of eastern Canada, including a corner of Newfoundland.) Better question: How do you have the fitness for biking up hills after spending so long in Florida?
Last time I was in downtown Montreal if I recalled properly was 10 years ago, I live 15 minutes away by car, but I don’t drive to downtown because of all construction sites, and where I live I walk or bike because there is construction too. So when I see on Utube videos about Montreal that they look so nice I asked myself where is this Montreal it can’t be the one in Quebec. Unless whoever upload these videos have good connections with the city and asked no construction cones, no cars, empty metros, and no crimes while I’m doing my videos so I can fool tourists to come and visit. Good luck with that.
Thank you for showing us Montreal through your eyes, Viva Family. It's nice to see Montreal without all the radicalze protesting going there. Montreal is a beautiful city, but it's the some of the residents of that city who make Montreal seem like a bad place to go and visit. It saddens me to see the vandalized statue monument of Queen Victoria. Why couldn't the Pro-Palestine protesters vandalized Pierre Trudeau's statue instead ? Are they too much of a cowards to do it ?
I live in Montreal. There are some nice places left, but this city is going to the shits. Some places are lots of homeless living in tents all over, druged people and garbage. All depends witch part of town you go to. Take care.
Mont St-Hélène? I don't think so. You might be a great lawyer/youtuber but you're no tour guide. It's not the best look out. The best one is at the Chalet. A lot of Quebecers watch you Viva, be precise or don't do it.
Complain about the pothole .. and then complain about the fact that they repairing the street ... Classic Montrealer I wonder how many time you wen on the other side of the track , In the East side of town ... Do you have friend in the east side ... !?
It’s Montreal, they know the potholes aren’t really being fixed or, if they are, much slower and at a higher cost. Montreal has been dominated by gang-affiliated construction companies for years.
Sorry bud, only minimal money for road repair available. Spent the infrastructure budget on segregated bike lanes, safe supply drug-fume hood-vents, and migrant welcome centers.
Hallelujah!!! I’m blessed and favored with $60,000 every week! Now I can afford anything and support the work of God and the church. For Your glory, LORD! HALLELUJAH!
One more city I don't care if I ever see. Every time I enter Quebec I am not able to speak with most of the people as I don't know the language. As I leave stores they go back speaking English so on my way down east I spend no money in that province and refuse to tour it. Now I go through the States and an treated awesome. Sorry but you can only take so much and I have had all I can take of Quebec. This is just my humble opinion.
That's fine and all but do you have that same expectation when you travel to other countries? Switzerland has 3 official languages and each region only mainly speak one of those languages.
@@ngoctruongpaulnguyen6503 I don't care about Europe! I live here in Canada !!!! I never get that kind of crap anywhere else in Canada in French speaking communities. I get it in Quebec. I have travelled for over 65 years and have visited many places in this country. SO for my money, if I can be treated with nicely then I take my money elsewhere. That is it in a nut shell.
@@denisturcott5131 tell that to the British who accepted to retain French culture in exchange for New France's surrender after the battle of the plains of Abraham. They could have forced assimilation or exiled all the French speakers like they did to the Acadians who are now in Louisiana but they didn't and hence French is a part of the Canadian Confederacy and can maintain their language.
I used to be downtown every day .... now you couldn't pay me to visit that third world shite hole.
Well I've been hating downtown Montreal for so long... That video sure don't make me want to go back there.
Toronto is the same thing. Major highway in the city under construction. Major roads under construction all at the same time.
As for potholes, there are areas where the homes pay at least $15,000 in property tax but have some bad potholes and for 1 road it took 3 years to get a suspension-breaking pothole covered up.
Infrastructure may be crumbling, but at least immigrants are getting free stuff!
At least it's getting fixed up. This is more or less the same level of work as the Boston big dig event.
Better to remove big stinky vehicles from our lives than anything else. They cost so much and they cost so much to keep them running.
Yep, while a disabled Canadian human rights defender in exile for trying to expose mass grave human rights violations suffer in limbo without benefits, affordable housing, safe shelter, legal assistance which all the other immigrants enjoy. And have their arbitrary arrest and court records censored by US and Mexico immigration.
And our jobs, keeping wages low, cost of living higher, so great isn't it; all thanks to Justin Trudeau.
The thing is that immigrants are contributing the same as citizens. All immigrants are working their asses off, paying the tax, and still getting the same crumbling infrastructure, and yeah... free stuff, but hey .. most citizens also get those free stuff right?
Born and raised in Montreal. Worked in the center into my 20s. I do miss what it used to be. Been in Mexico 15 years. Don't miss today's Canada one bit. Happy to be done with it.
Same story. It truly is a beautiful city and did not appreciate it enough when I lived there. Been in Panama for 20 yrs. Never looked back. Thanks for the tour Viva
Live your title 🎉
"Back behind the iron curtain". Sad but true
À Montréal, just because there are construction signs, doesn't always mean there is any actual active construction going on... Interpret that however you want.
So true !
Did you know who was Camilien Houde ? He was the mayor of Montréal back in the 1950's He refuse to build a road on the Mont-Royal the road was use only by tramways and horse driver buggies back in the days. They ask him why ? he said it will pollute the tranquillity of the Mount-Royal Park . He even said if they want to built a road it would be over his dead body ! That was exactly what happened after he died in 1958 than they built the road over the mountain where the Tram used to be alone and to had insult to the injury they named it after him.
Wow I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
Sheesh, you have to be in great shape to do all that biking.
Thanks for taking us along
My brother has visited us for more than 10 times. Every time he saw road constructions and potholes, he said "oh Montreal". It sounds hillarious to me 😀
I think you made a mistake in the title, you said construction instead of demolition.
@0:10 C'mon man, you are wearing your politics ruins everything shirt. Did you think we would not have noticed that? I am glad I am not the only one who noticed the man in the wheelchair. The whole 9 Yards filming location and I am glad you got the church and the cheese grater building in the video. @4:16 I pitched my tent plenty of times in Montreal or should I call it MontUNREAL.
wow those bike paths sure are beautiful!
Some beautiful places!
So critical 😭😭😭😭😭😂
yo Viva! gotta remember that in a week, all construction workers will be gone for vacation. Meaning all those construction sites will stay in everyones way with nobody working to finish them for 2 weeks.
That's seriously true 😭
@Viva, Thank you so much for reminding what we are missing. Before exile I spent 6 months on Roslyn Ave near St Joe's scanning my documents. I would ride over the Mount, visit the police horses, then the Old Hockey arena grocery store, the parks with the pianos, the murals, then back to the drum circle (on Sunday), where I could pretend not to understand french when guys hit on me. aka Dystopian Justice..if only I had known about the Gainey-Collins connection 😮
As a car-less Montrealer, the harder life is for driver the easier it is for me ❤😂
Sorry not sorry, I’m freezing my ass half year long. I’ll shamelessly enjoy my car-limited summer 😘
What is the purpose of that exactly? No road construction during winter,is it difficult to understand!!!!!
With all due respect, I have many problems with what you are saying. The first being you not trying to bring solutions to the table and ironically having fun cycling alone on a road on a Sunday while complaining about it.
People living in Montreal love to cycle and walk because it’s fast, flexible, silent and doesn’t brake roads as fast as cars do. That’s why more cycling and walking infrastructure is being built. Logically, city roads are always under construction because they are under WAY HEAVIER AND CONSTANT traffic from cars and trucks.
Now don’t get me wrong, cars and truck are great for delivery and to get OUT of the city into Greater Montreal, but you don’t need that many roads for that.
And then there’s you, the local or international tourist, who wants to have a great time in a city. That’s great! You really plan to do that by staying in a car, on roads ?
This isn’t even ideology or politics, it’s just TRYING to think critically and logically about solutions (…I’ll admit that I also have some problems with your ideologies and political views, but getting into that is not useful to anyone).
All freedoms must be protected by law? Yeah, we do see how that’s panned out. If it was written in English it probably would have been removed by now, as have been some of our rights!
Where are the massively cracking overpasses that my dad and I got lost on in 2006? (Otherwise a great road trip from Arkansas and through much of eastern Canada, including a corner of Newfoundland.)
Better question: How do you have the fitness for biking up hills after spending so long in Florida?
nothing 600000 fighting ages indians can't make worse
just evacuate the city and call everybody back when they're done.. montreal barree.. pathetic...
Good idea I feel u
@Viva Family, wow…one handed biking while filming… proceeds to take other hand off the bike and bike with no hands. WOW…. Lol.
Last time I was in downtown Montreal if I recalled properly was 10 years ago, I live 15 minutes away by car, but I don’t drive to downtown because of all construction sites, and where I live I walk or bike because there is construction too. So when I see on Utube videos about Montreal that they look so nice I asked myself where is this Montreal it can’t be the one in Quebec. Unless whoever upload these videos have good connections with the city and asked no construction cones, no cars, empty metros, and no crimes while I’m doing my videos so I can fool tourists to come and visit. Good luck with that.
Thank you for showing us Montreal through your eyes, Viva Family. It's nice to see Montreal without all the radicalze protesting going there. Montreal is a beautiful city, but it's the some of the residents of that city who make Montreal seem like a bad place to go and visit. It saddens me to see the vandalized statue monument of Queen Victoria. Why couldn't the Pro-Palestine protesters vandalized Pierre Trudeau's statue instead ? Are they too much of a cowards to do it ?
It’s already fully fixed And camp is gone. Besides was not dangerous or anything
I live in Montreal. There are some nice places left, but this city is going to the shits. Some places are lots of homeless living in tents all over, druged people and garbage. All depends witch part of town you go to. Take care.
Mont St-Hélène? I don't think so. You might be a great lawyer/youtuber but you're no tour guide. It's not the best look out. The best one is at the Chalet. A lot of Quebecers watch you Viva, be precise or don't do it.
The forest is under destruction .
When the time comes, the mountains, the lakes, and paradise are under constructions too...🤣
Are you back to live in Montreal? If yes, can you make a video on why you decided to come back to live here vs Florida? Thanks for
oh by the way it’S the FEQ in Quebec city if you wanna come by
Looks like a fun ride.
Awesome Video. 👍
That was a nice "outing" viva, I avoid the island at all cost. Glad I can , from what I see! Will stick to my side of the island ( south shore)
YEAHHH mont st-hilaire i live there hahah Respect viva
And if you look to your right you will see..... Freddy Krueger? 12:07
lol you pronounce montreal like an american tourist...
😊👌
Looks like San Francisco.
Complain about the pothole .. and then complain about the fact that they repairing the street ... Classic Montrealer
I wonder how many time you wen on the other side of the track , In the East side of town ...
Do you have friend in the east side ... !?
It’s Montreal, they know the potholes aren’t really being fixed or, if they are, much slower and at a higher cost.
Montreal has been dominated by gang-affiliated construction companies for years.
Quebec covid curfues were among the dumbest and worst policies
Hey Viva. Please start pronouncing montreal properly. You're not an American.. especially when you're actually IN montreal. 😂
Sorry bud, only minimal money for road repair available. Spent the infrastructure budget on segregated bike lanes, safe supply drug-fume hood-vents, and migrant welcome centers.
Bike lanes are a much more cost effective way to get around than car lanes
I ust REALLY hate the city now. SO much.
Anyone seen American Jesuits by Chris Pinto?
This city have become a woke paradise.. disgusting
Hallelujah!!! I’m blessed and favored with $60,000 every week! Now I can afford anything and support the work of God and the church. For Your glory, LORD! HALLELUJAH!
This is what Ana Graciela Blackwelder does, she has changed my life.
After raising up to 60k trading with her, I bought a new house and car here in the US and also paid for my son’s (Oscar) surgery. Glory to God.shalom.
@@AmandaNicole__0 bullshit
ITS ALL PART OF WEF 15 MINUTE CITY NO CAR ONLY BIKE AND BUSES
One more city I don't care if I ever see. Every time I enter Quebec I am not able to speak with most of the people as I don't know the language. As I leave stores they go back speaking English so on my way down east I spend no money in that province and refuse to tour it. Now I go through the States and an treated awesome. Sorry but you can only take so much and I have had all I can take of Quebec. This is just my humble opinion.
That's fine and all but do you have that same expectation when you travel to other countries? Switzerland has 3 official languages and each region only mainly speak one of those languages.
@@ngoctruongpaulnguyen6503 I don't care about Europe! I live here in Canada !!!! I never get that kind of crap anywhere else in Canada in French speaking communities. I get it in Quebec. I have travelled for over 65 years and have visited many places in this country. SO for my money, if I can be treated with nicely then I take my money elsewhere. That is it in a nut shell.
@@denisturcott5131 tell that to the British who accepted to retain French culture in exchange for New France's surrender after the battle of the plains of Abraham. They could have forced assimilation or exiled all the French speakers like they did to the Acadians who are now in Louisiana but they didn't and hence French is a part of the Canadian Confederacy and can maintain their language.
I noticed you only have one follower. Are you that popular? WOW
British obviously made a mistake back then @@ngoctruongpaulnguyen6503
Montreal's a shit hole, daughter lives on Plateau, never been, oh is she mad, love from Pte-Claire, biked on Ont. St. once, never again 😝🙈!
Montreal is shit-- your not being critical