It defines you and how you see the world. Depending on your neighbourhood, the world is either a great place or it's going to hell. After living in the country, in L'Avenir, I thought that Montreal would offer excitement, opportunities, and noise, noise, and more noise. It's actually quite tranquil in our neighbourhood. In the country, there was always somebody making a huge amount of noise with a snow blower, a snowmobile, a four-wheeler, a rifle, some electric tools, a motorcycle, cranked music, a wild party, an unsuccessful car repair attempt, or some crabby cows.
People seem to walk pretty quietly, talk pretty quietly, and entertain pretty quietly.
Well, anyway, life is pretty good here. We had a bit of a scare regarding the friendliness of our neighbours after we were verbally accosted when our dog, Woo, lifted his leg on one of our neighbour's hedges. We noticed later that he is the proud owner of a rather large Rottweiler himself. Our apartment comes complete with one of the city's teeny tiny balconies. The dogs love to laze out there in the sun and that's about all the room there is.