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Originally Posted by Nantais
I agree. Though I've never been to Québec city, from what I've seen of it on the net, it really doesn't look like any French city. I guess that, for non-French-speaking people, seeing signs in French language and some old buildings are enough to feel like in France, but, to a French, there isn't any doubt that Québec city is a very different place than France.
Also, what drives a lot of French tourists in Québec (not only Québec city, but above all, Montréal and also all of the Québec's wild areas) is not the "European feel" of the place, but the possibility to live a pure North American experience in their native language. Like a perfect mix of a sense of exoticism and familiarity.
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I've simply never been to Quebec either.
They seem grumpy at us because too many older French made fun of their accent and all, kind of like the older French did to the Belgians.
I find those accent issues and complexes to be completely meaningless, like I really don't care. So long as I can understand what they say, I don't mind.
It's unfair to be grumpy at us for those old silly things, isn't it?
Now, as for the physical looks of their town, I noticed some grayish stone to their real old buildings from the 17th or 18th centuries, that looks very much like some stone from Brittany, like from Saint-Malo, Dinard and some touristy spots out there. Some sort of stone typically from the Northern Atlantic Euro style.
They also have some old Mansard roofs, which is quite a reminder of our own country.
Their real older preserved town doesn't seem so remote from what they did over some regions of this country by the same era.
I can remember, long ago, I read on this forum that some stone was imported from Scotland to their country, which I found astonishing because it means they had to ship it up to the other side of the ocean. That would be quite strange, right? Even hard to believe.
If I had been a local businessman and developer over there, I guess I would simply have dug the local soil to get some stone.
But it was up to them, eh.