City Life

Best Neighbourhood
1. Plateau
2. NDG
3. Mile-End
4. Westmount
5. St-Henri
6. Gay Village
7. Downtown
8. Verdun
9. Chomedy
10. Little Italy
11. Côte-des-Neiges
12. Parc Ex
13. Outremont
14. West Island
15. Pointe St-Charles

The Plateau wins again, and No Damn Good and Hipster Central (aka Mile-End)’s standings remain unchanged from last year as well. The West Island falls from #4 to #14.

Best Minority
1. Anglos
2. Italians
3. Gays
4. Greeks
5. Jews
6. Blacks
7. Portuguese
8. Irish
9. All
10. Filipinos
Honourable mentions: Arabs • Chinese • Indians • French • Native American

Pip pip old man, jolly good, wot! Quebec’s former colonial masters have put their stiff upper lip forward in what may be the first step in re-establishing their vanished dominance. Pass the whitebread!

Best Building
1. Oratoire St-Joseph
2. Place Ville-Marie
3. Big O
4. Bell Centre
5. Sun Life Building
6. Notre Dame Cathedral
7. Concordia EV building
8. Belgo Building
9. AMC Forum
10. Grande Bibliothèque
Honourable mentions: IBM tower (1250 René-Lévesque W.) • 1000 de la Gauchetière W. • Palais de Congrès • Habitat ’67 • Hotel Godin • St-James Cathedral

Yeah, it’s a nice building and all, but don’t all those stairs make your knees ache just looking at them? And here’s to the Big O, finally paid off 30 years after a man had a baby.

Best Place to Spot Celebrities
1. St-Laurent Boulevard
2. Buona Notte
3. W Hotel
4. Globe
5. Downtown
6. Time Supper Club
7. Crescent Street
8. Old Montreal
9. Le Plateau
10. Ste-Catherine
Honourable mentions: On TV • St-Denis • Bell Centre • Grand Prix • Med • Old Port

Oily movie stars and skinny hipsters keep the Main in the top spot once again.

Best Place to Have Public Sex
1. Mount Royal
2. Any park
3. Anywhere
4. Bathrooms
5. Old Port
6. Parc Lafontaine
7. Alleyways
8. Metro!
9 . McGill campus
10. Movie theatre
Honourable mentions: Westmount Park • Elevators • Lachine Canal • Old Montreal horse carriage

What a randy and exhibitionist lot Montrealers are. Many of the answers, especially the mountain, are familiar, although some entries, particularly the metro and horse carriages, are new and potentially disturbing.