Living In Quebec

My wife and I have become quite annoyed with 'Not available to Quebec residents' when it comes entering contests in North America. We're the only jurisdiction that has no right to enter them. My daughter loves Disney and every contest offered is restricted.

Pretty shitty if you ask me.

Ah, the perks of living in Quebec.

Knowing this province, it probably has something to do with language.

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As for perks, I love when people say the cost of living in Quebec is low as compared to other places as if it's a plus. Not really. Afterall,  if it's cheap to buy, it's cheap to sell, no?

It's not cheap here because of our ability to market ourselves, or because we manage money well, or because we have a booming economic and business model.

It's cheap because of our politics. We have to keep, for example, real estate down to offset the political climate.

And what we "gain" in depressed real estate (and honestly, once Quebec (if ever) matures, its prices will have to come into line with the rest of the country), we lose in lower income, higher taxes, high union memberships, less disposable income and lower productivity rates.

And don't get me going with the debt.

Personally, of all the jurisdictions to move to, I'd consider Quebec last.

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Been angling for my family to buy land in the United States. It would help us navigate around Quebec's bull shit communistic laws.

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Speaking of language, I've seen food products in ONE language other than French. Italian, Arabic and Chinese dialects in particular.

But you will NEVER see in English only. In fact, Quebec won't allow it.

No siree Bob.

Spanish a-okay. No problem.

English?

J'amais!

C'est le francais icite!

I know because a lot of American products don't come here so I have to go down there to pick up.

Quebec are masters at shooting itself at the knees and then blaming others for their backwardness.

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When will the "ici on parle en francais" crowd come to the realization Montreal ain't a unilingual French city?