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Originally Posted by Ara T.
If you visit the cliched tourist attractions of course the French that work near the restaurants and the museums are going to be rude. It gets old being around tourists all the time you know?
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Actually, I didn't. Montreal and Quebec people seemed colder than say New York or SF most places in the US. Still, that is the way people there are and we have to accept it. Our habits seem strange to them and their's seem strange to us. BTW, having been around many tourist spots, I have met a lot of the tourist places where they realize that we, the tourists, are their bread and butter and their attitude is more welcoming than when I was in say Niagara Falls or other touristy places in Canada. I don't know about you but when it is my bread and butter, you bet I will try to be nicer. Take Fisherman's Wharf in CA. They weren't that sick of tourists. In fact, they realize that those bastards are their life blood as opposed to the touristy places I visited in Canada. If Niagara Falls dried up, think the Canadian side of that area would have anything else to sell? Who, if not the tourist feeds them?
That being said, I realize it is their culture and their way of life. Can I change it? Nope. So, my options are to put up with it or not spend my money there. Either choice isn't going to send me to a mindfawk and lie on his couch for $150 or more per hour.