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Visiting Montreal is always magical, it's like stepping into a European city where friends kiss each other on the cheek and enjoy cafes and good restaurants. Statistics prove this, as Montrealers spend more than a tenth of their household budget on food, which is more than residents of other parts of Canada. Due to the high quality of life and joie de vivre, or as the inhabitants of the largest French-speaking city in North America call it, joie de vivre, it was the second happiest city in the world according to a Lonely Planet survey for years!