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Originally Posted by kool maudit
Longtime Anglo-Montrealer here, since departed... bottom line? It would have become New Orleans. I've heard it all, have even sympathized. I've lived it. Pastagate, 101 ou 401, Richler in the New Yorker. The Auf der Mars and the Schnurmachers. Angles great and small.
Evacuating McGill lecture halls onto Sherbrooke in the rain.
Points were made.
But it would have become New Orleans.
And this is better. This is much more interesting. This is a happy ending.
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Or at least, it wouldn't have been as interesting given the other "non-New Orleans" cultural, geographic, political and environmental traits Montreal and its part of the world has, and what it would could logically have become as a result of those in the absence of a dominant francophone character.
New Orleans itself is, of course, a pretty interesting city.
