Pros and Cons of your city

[Meneldil]

Where I was born, and where I've lived for most of my life :

Montpellier (France):

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Pros:
- Many universities, lots of students, nationals or foreigners
- A really living town culture-wise: art exhibitions, theaters, concerts, lectures, street artists, etc. There's always something to do, see and learn in Montpellier.
- An overall beautiful city. Part of it kept its 19th century look (cf picture #1 & 2), while the most modern parts of it have a classical-greece feeling, accordingly to our -megalomaniac- mayor's wish.
- Awesome public transports, thanks to the 2 tramway lines. I think these are the only ones that actually make some benefits in France.
- You can pretty much find everything you want.

Cons:
- Overall, the city knows high unemployement and criminality rates. It's not the Bronx, but last time I checked, the unemployement rate was around 12%, and you can quickly feel unsecure in some places.
- Lot of homeless people, which probably doesn't help with the criminality issue.
- There's no real 'Montpellierains'. People study or get a job there, then they move on to another place. You won't find many people claiming with pride that they're from Montpellier, because well, we don't really care, we live/study/work here, and that's about it. Not really sure it's a con though. I'm not really fan of chauvinistic 'My town is so awesome' discussions.

Where I live and study now, up till April:

Sudbury (Ontario):

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Pros:
- People are really friendly there. Much more than in France. And the fact I'm French grants me instant popularity among Franco-Ontarians.
- The Campus is really nice. My students residence is ten times better than anything you could find in France.
- Landscape (might be) awesome, especially in summer.
- The whole English/French billingualism is awesome. You can speak french with some dude and then switch to (broken) english with another guy.

Cons:
- Actually, the city itself is fugly. The whole downtown looks like a French highway stop. It gets worse with snow (from late september to late march), because the snow turns black wsith the pollution.
-Don't be fooled by the two first pictures. The area is not some preserved landscape: lakes are polluted, and so is the soil, thanks to the mining companies. From what I've been told, the whole area looked like a lunar landscape in the 70's, and all the forests and what not have been created since then. And wherever you go, you can see the huge chimney (sp?) seen in pic #3, endlessly releasing smoke in the sky (note that the chimney is that high so the smoke doesn't end up polluting Canada but the US).
- Kind of a redneckish area. Anti-abortion (or 'pro-life') advertising are common. Culture on the other hand, is not.
- The city is huge. Only 150K inhabitants, but its so spread out that doing anything takes hours. It's made even worse by the poor public transport system.
- People are so antiamerican, they make us french look like beginners in that department. And the pointless nationalism is sometimes annoying ('Oh yeah, we in Canada have the best healthcare system EVER!' 'You mean, like, outside of Western Europe right?', or 'Our beer is the best ******* beer in the world' and other 'Tim Horton's is teh awesome')