life on the road, cheap hotels and rental cars....strange people and strange bars. I sometimes revel in the anonymity of it all the newness and the possibility...when you are all alone and far away from home do you act differently? I don't. I guess I'm lucky(?) to be able to be myself when I;m home, so I don't fell th eneed to "cut loose" when I'm away...I guess I'm a bit more selfish, but I am alone, so who the hell else do i have worry about? I certainly miss my girl, but not really my friends, home has become a bore, the friends are all too close...I mean I want closeness, i want the intimacy that comes with it, but not with these people....drugs, booze, wasted time abounds and I am sic of it. I no longer want to be an instigator, an energizer, I want to be part of a functioning group, one of many powerful, creative beings. I also feel stifled in teh northeast. i know there arent many other p[laces where you can find as many educated folks, but its so conservative here...not politically, but socially. the puritans still have their icy, masochistic grip here, and I want out of it. I did a quiz to find out where I would like to live, and I got Portland, OR, Honolulu, and then hartford fucking connecticut, and providence, RI..I mean come on...yuck!! well, I'm tired of looking at the depression that is the extendstay suite in R####y, NJ...
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All the really huge clubs and after hours center around ste catherine street especially east of the main (st-laurent) all the way to the end of the (gay) village.
As I also mentionned, a lot of the university crowd hangs out on Crescent street. So much that it's almost a joke. Irish pubs abound on Bishop, one street east.
If you have money to burn, the two blocks north of sherbrooke on st-laurent should cover that.
Strip Clubs (they're a common attraction to Montreal) are usually on ste-catherine. The farther east from the main you go, the seedier.
There are tons of good places for beers. Of course the irish pubs are amongst them but there's also all the brewpubs and quite a few cheap bar (and dives.)
St-Laurent street is anglo central, second only to Crescent in english unilinguism. St-Denis is french central.
Mont-Royal is an interesting street to shop or eat on. Much variety depending on where on the street you go.
Ste-Catherine is probably the busiest shopping street in Montreal. Around University and a few block west, all the high-end stores abound.
If you'll be driving, the fastest way to cut through downtown (outside rush hour) is rene-levesque, one block south ot ste-catherine, it's wide and not a one way. The orange metro line follows under the blocks directly south of the street. The Green metro line follows Maisonneuve (one block north of ste-catherine.)
If you take the subway (metro,) it closes at 1h30 on week-ends, bar close at 3. Cab fare to downtown from anywhere you'd want to go out would be between 6 and 12$, including a couple dollar of tips. Night buses suck and DUI will land you in jail, at least overnight. Of course, Downtown, you can always walk.
So, hmm, questions?