Todd: OK. Mike, you are from Canada.

Mike: That's right.

Todd: So, actually I want to go to Canada for vacation. I've never been. What would you recommend for a Canadian vacation?

Mike: Well, it really just depends on the kind of holiday that you want to have. If you want to have a relaxing outdoors, kind of back to nature, kind of holiday, I'd recommend Vancouver. If you wanted to do a holiday that's maybe a little more culturally oriented. If you want experience, a different type of culture, Montreal would be a city that I'd recommend and if you wanted to go to a big multi-cultural city with a lot of nightlife and things to do with respect to entertainment or sports, then I'd recommend Toronto.

Todd: So, have you been to all three cities?

Mike: Yes. I actually have lived most of my life in Toronto and in Montreal but I have spent some time in Vancouver as well so, all three are very different in attitude and lifestyle and in the way people live.

Todd: How so? How is somebody from Toronto different than somebody from Vancouver?

Mike: Well, somebody from Toronto I think is a little bit more high paced. Maybe you could almost say, they're a little bit more stresses out just because the pace of life in Toronto is a little bit faster. It's kind of the big economic center of Canada, so it tend to have a lot more of a business culture to it whereas Vancouver is much more like many West Coast cities in the United States as well. It's a lot more relaxed, a lot more easy-going so there's a difference in culture there and Montreal has a strong French-Canadian influence so in fact, it's mostly French-Canadian so that just changes the dynamic of the city.

Todd: OK. So if you were to live in any city, which one would you choose?

Mike: Of, those three?

Todd: Yeah

Mike: Personally, I would think I would go for Montreal just because I like the dynamic. The one bad point about Montreal is the weather.

Todd: What? It's very cold?

Mike: Yes. It gets very, very cold and it has a very long winter. In fact, the joke is that in Montreal the seasons are nine month of winter and three months of bad-skating.

Todd: OK. Well, thanks Mike.