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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azul" data-source="post: 2608662" data-attributes="member: 11779">Well, as a former Montrealer, Con U and McGill student, I can't completely agree with you.  Finding a part-time job will be harder... much harder if you are talking about a retail job (but outside the east end of Montreal, it's hard to find retail work unless you speak BOTH French and English).It is perfectly feasable to function as a unilingual Anglophone (i.e. English-speaker) in Montreal but you end up being limited to western parts of the city... pretty much from St. Laurent Boulevard westwards.  All of downtown is bilingual (actually, it's more Anglo than Franco) and places like Westmount, NDG and the Snowdon area are pretty much English-speaking areas.My wife (a Torontonian by birth and upbringing) lived and functioned just fine as an unilingual English-speaker during her 4 years as a Concordia student.  It can definitely be done.Do I recommend living in Montreal without learning some French and getting to enjoy the other half of the city?  Of course not.  You'd be missing out of lots of great experiences.  But you can certainly function in Montreal without French.  Just don't move into a unilingual neighbourhood.  If you live anywhere near McGill or Concordia, the vast majority of the locals speak English just fine.For an American student looking for something different, Montreal might be a very interesting choice.  It is probably the least American feeling city in Canada that an English speaker can function in on a day-to-day basis.  Quebec City is even more unique in some ways but day-to-day living there pretty much requires fluency in French (although tourists can get by with English just fine).  Even Anglo-Montrealers are pretty different from other Canadians since they share many of the social habits and attitudes of their French-speaking compatriots (I mean lifestyle here, not politics).</blockquote>

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