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Best of Montreal Readers' Poll 2001
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Compiled by Mark Slutsky with assistance from Sharon Lax, Siobhàn O'Connor and Daniel Perlmutter
Special BOM question
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What's your favourite thing unique to Montreal?
* Two languages
* Four-hand massage at Aux 4 Mains
* 99-cent pizza
* A zillion beautiful women from all over the world actually live here
* Affordability
* All the cool-ass downtown shops
* All the fresh new clothing stores
* Ambience and diverse culture
* An ordinance-regulated skyline
* Architecture
* ArteVISTA project
* Bagels!
* Best place for panty sightings
* Best quality of life of any city
* Bikers gangs getting locked up in Bordeaux
* Biodôme
* Changing clothes every season
* Changing of seasons
* Cheap rent
* Churches
* Cinéma du Parc
* Clashing cultures that give the city character
* Cool raves and lots of local bands
* Deps
* Fashion
* Festivals
* Filters in joints
* Fireworks
* Gay-friendliness
* Gay Village
* Hot black men
* Hot Frenchmen in muscle shirts sunning themselves on Hochelaga
* Incredibly tolerant people
* Intimacy
* It's in Canada
* It's like Europe in North America!
* Jazz Fest
* Kayaking in the Lachine Rapids
* Kissing both cheeks
* Lachine Canal bike path
* Low legal age for booze
* Men and women riding bicycles throughout the year, snow or shine
* Mount Royal
* Nightlife
* Old Port
* Orange Julep
* People actually encourage pleasure in this town
* People haven't succumbed to a "rat race" mentality
* People look you in the eye as they walk by on the street
* People sitting on their stoops and balconies
* Poutine
* Restaurants
* Safety
* Schwartz's
* Seasonal extremes
* Sluts
* Smoked meat
* That you can be poor but still enjoy life a little--can't do that in Toronto
* The air
* The back alleys of the Plateau
* The bar scene
* The French
* The joie de vivre
* The laissez-faire attitude
* The least expensive classy escorts in Canada
* The mix of old buildings and new
* The sex industry
* Throwing grass at the Warped Tour
* Un-American culture
* Variety of food
* Warshaw's
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Least favourite?
* "One Island, One City"
* A total lack of spring
* Aaron & Tasso
* All the bitching and complaining about language laws
* American tourists
* Bad condition of roads, highways etc.
* Bad snow removal
* Bags of dog shit left on the sidewalk
* Best of Montreal polls
* The Big O
* Bikes on sidewalks
* Bourque
* Cab drivers who get pissed at you if you don't know French
* Changing clothes every season
* Cigarette smoke everywhere
* Crescent street
* Demos turning into riots
* Drivers!
* Economic prospects
* English folks who have never been east of the Olympic Stadium
* The French
* Gangs hanging out in the metro
* Idiot politicians
* Impossible to find a place to be alone in
* Incredibly ignorant attitudes about language
* Its abundance of wack guys who attempt to mack pretty girls
* It's in Canada
* It's like Stalingrad in the winter
* Mullet-headed Motards from LaSalle
* Fascist politicians
* Neo-hippies
* New ghettos
* No right turns on red lights
* Pigeon shit all over
* Place des Arts
* Pointe-aux-Trembles
* Police
* Posers!
* Potholes
* Poutine
* Pretentious alternative types who act too cool for everyone but their own smelly alterna-friends
* Public transport
* Québécois rockers and their bad hair
* Racial intolerance
* Really foul-smelling people
* Sea of slush
* Separatists
* Smelly Lachine Canal
* Smoked meat
* Snob shit restos on St-Laurent
* Speaking to someone in English and having them answer in French
* Suburban architecture
* Les Canadiens
* The escorts don't speak English
* The number of homeless people and beggars
* The prima donna attitude and the platform shoes
* The sorry-ass front-seats crowd at the Habs' games
* There are no giant tigers
* Too many preps!
* Unfriendly landlords
* Unilingual People
* Uppity French chicks
* Watching the Habs lose again
* Winter means no mini-skirts
* Worst snow removal system of any North American city
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