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What is the name of the housing project near Place De arts? Last visit to Montreal I remember playing pick up soccer at a field surrounded by a low income housing complex. Did not feel uncomfortable at all, but curious as to its name and if there are any major issues there.
That is the Habitation Jeanne Mance. Although it is a low-income complex, you have people from around the world here (about 70 different countries are represented in the complex). The owners of the complex also added murals (about a dozen), more greenery and renovated the whole complex. I've walked around there before and it's improved a lot, many families and a very nice community feel to it.
That is the Habitation Jeanne Mance. Although it is a low-income complex, you have people from around the world here (about 70 different countries are represented in the complex). The owners of the complex also added murals (about a dozen), more greenery and renovated the whole complex. I've walked around there before and it's improved a lot, many families and a very nice community feel to it.
Thank you!
I would agree. I felt fine around there and while playing there was a very nice mix of cultures and languages being spoken (I guess that is typical of soccer elsewhere also). The guys there did mention that not many people from outside the neighbourhood come over to play, so they were pleasantly surprised that I ended up there. The competition there looked stronger than the other fields I passed by, so it was an easy decision for me.
I would agree. I felt fine around there and while playing there was a very nice mix of cultures and languages being spoken (I guess that is typical of soccer elsewhere also). The guys there did mention that not many people from outside the neighbourhood come over to play, so they were pleasantly surprised that I ended up there. The competition there looked stronger than the other fields I passed by, so it was an easy decision for me.
Typically that areas like that will have better competition, as a lot of the folks there come from areas where the sport is very popular.
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Thank you!
I would agree. I felt fine around there and while playing there was a very nice mix of cultures and languages being spoken (I guess that is typical of soccer elsewhere also). The guys there did mention that not many people from outside the neighbourhood come over to play, so they were pleasantly surprised that I ended up there. The competition there looked stronger than the other fields I passed by, so it was an easy decision for me.
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Typically that areas like that will have better competition, as a lot of the folks there come from areas where the sport is very popular.
Agreed. And a bit further out, near the Olympic Stadium, you can catch some really good "neighborhood" baseball. These are informal leagues, as there are throughout the city, but there are a lot of Dominicans out that way and, oh boy, can they play. It's like watching MLB with some of those pitchers. No kidding.
Ghettos in Montreal exist by their traditional definition, but slums? hardly any, if anything there isn't any. Every time I show my American friends "the hood" in MTL (MTL Nord, St. Mich, Parc-ex, etc..), they laugh cause it can pass as a decent neighbourhood in U.S cities. The only "sketchy" areas that remain are Montreal East/parts of Hochelaga, where poor/uneducated people who leach off of welfare live. Besides those areas, the city is very clean and has improved heavily.
Yeah, ok, thank you for this post (and others that follow). I've been to Jean Talon market and some of the streets around that area and nothing about it seemed dangerous/criminal.
And I know sometimes a neighborhood can look nice but be dangerous. I just haven't experienced anything that is as sketchy as an up-and-coming neighborhood in the US. Even Montreal Nord looks working class, but not dangerous. Am I wrong?
There are no "dangerous" neighbourhoods in Montreal. Even areas what djesus considered "sketchy" are not dangerous at all and have gentrified significantly in the past decades - but they were never dangerous to beginning with. For example, this is in Hochelaga.
Yeah, ok, thank you for this post (and others that follow). I've been to Jean Talon market and some of the streets around that area and nothing about it seemed dangerous/criminal.
And I know sometimes a neighborhood can look nice but be dangerous. I just haven't experienced anything that is as sketchy as an up-and-coming neighborhood in the US. Even Montreal Nord looks working class, but not dangerous. Am I wrong?
I work near metro Namur and met some people in the neighborhood. One of the guys that I was hanging out with, he turned psycho and kicked the groins of everybody in the group really hard for no reason at all and I had to go to the hospital to get ultrasound to check that my seeds were still good. The doctor said everything's ok but it can feel different from time to time, which I believe is for life. I just happened to be with the wrong crowd at the wrong time. And generally many people in this area are thugs or wannabe thugs. I also heard that there were shootings in the area in the past. I actually knew a guy who was a criminal himself. So it's not dangerous to walk around in daylight, but if you get involved in the area, you have to use caution.
It's just like when I lived in Miami. You see Brickell, downtown, and across from all that are slums and dangerous places. I'm really happy we don't have that in Montreal.
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