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Montreal is a wonderful place to live and to study. A gateway to North America, its typical New World vitality blends perfectly with its unique approach to life. It’s a bilingual city where you’ll hear French and English spoken everywhere, along with some 35 other languages and many well-established cultural communities, from Italian to Chinese, Greek and Spanish-speaking.
Montreal is fourth in North America in terms of the number of jobs per capita in the high-tech industry (study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, October 2000) and fifth in the world as a hub for new technologies, on a par with New York and Seattle and out in front of Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo (according to the US magazine Wired, July 2000). It is the second-largest aerospace city in the world, and eighth in North America in the biopharmaceuticals sector. With its four universities, Montreal has more university students per capita than any other North American city. And it is first in Canada and fourth in North America as a venue for international conferences.
Montreal has so much to offer: vast green spaces, charming neighbourhoods that recall its European origins, and its metro (subway) system, nearly 30 km of underground lines linking the main office towers with the many shopping centres
downtown.
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