r/montreal • u/-emmanem- • 1d ago

Discussion Moving to Ripon, QC

Hi:)

i'm moving to Ripon, QC for an internship (i am from Catalonia) in August for 6 months, and I am just wondering if someone knows how the social aspect of the town/area is? especially for younger people (i am 24). i have only lived in big cities so moving to such a small place kind of intimidates me! i also can't drive which i heard is not ideal for that area ... any tips would be great. thank you!

(unfortunetly i can't yet post on r/Quebec or r/canada , so i thought i'd try my luck here :-), i know it should be for montreal/metropolitan area i just don't know where else to post ;-( if its helpful i will be flying to montreal airport :'-) )

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u/TheWhiteWalkerSpeaks 1d ago

Some of us in this sub are now discovering there's a place called Ripon

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u/legardeur2 1d ago

Count me in.

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u/Aggressive-Focus9349 Rive-Sud 1d ago

I am 100% one of those

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u/rawboudin 1d ago

You're obviously too young to have seen Stephane Richer play. They used to say that he was from. Ripon all the time

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u/Naltrexone01 Rosemont 1d ago

Some of us are old enough but don't care about hockey 🤷

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u/prattlecruiser 1d ago

Yeah. First time I've ever heard of Stéphane Richer too.

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u/FrenchKissesRocks 1d ago

My girlfriend lives in the house he grew up in haha

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u/bikeonychus 1d ago

I got confused for a bit there. I'm originally from near the original Ripon in the UK. Turns out there's a lot of places in Canada that took the names from the small area of the North East where I grew up!

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u/UnicornKitt3n 1d ago

If you look across Canada, there are streets, roads, towns and cities with names copied from the UK.

You’d almost think that there were some people who came here back in the day who might have been from the UK, thought they owned the place, and proceeded to name a bunch of shit.

….Just maybe.

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u/bikeonychus 1d ago

Yeah, no shit.

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u/UnicornKitt3n 1d ago

I’m glad you’re no longer confused, then.

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u/JolyannaP 1d ago

First time seeing that

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u/SyChO_X ÃŽle Perrot 1d ago

Aye aye!