Also good luck getting customer service in English. Its worse if you are not white.
I am not sure you can call it 'culture', but I find Québec is culturally friendly to "white French speakers"
I am not sure you can call it 'culture', but I find Québec is culturally friendly to "white French speakers"
All you need to do is learn “I’m sorry, I don’t speak French - but I’m learning!”
There are more, but here is the latest:
Some typically french lower class neighbourhoods have xenophobic francophones, but in the last 15 years they have moved off the main island or in the far east boroughs (Riviere des Prairies, etc.).
If you're on the actual island of Montreal, it's unlikely you'll face any problems for not speaking French. I've known dozens of people immigrate here speaking only one language and adapt fine.
I spent a few days there and by the end of my time was conducting the entirety of my simple shop purchases in French, despite not having studied it before.