Depends which part of town you’re in, but I agree. Even making a token effort is generally warmly received.

Day one of moving to BC, my movers pulls out the ramp on the moving truck and asks me if i knew what BC meant.

“Bring cash”

I am sorry to say he was not wrong. It’s expensive here but it’s beautiful.

Lived in Montreal for ten years. You can get by without it, but it’s way more enjoyable if you learn it. The food is amazing and there’s always events going on.

French is definitely a learnable language! Bonne chance!

The part that killed it for me right at the start, even more than American accents was the casual use of the words Mom and Dad, not mother and father.