TapTheForwardAssist posted:

I'm an American living in Texas, and have a couple months of open time until job prospects materialize (and I can self-support for a long while in the meantime), so I need to shack up somewhere just to chill out and apply for jobs in the US and Europe. In the past, SA once convinced me to move to Newfoundland (ended up living there three months) and I spent a few months of 2015 in Savannah based on goon recommendations, so overall I've gotten surprisingly good advice. Though I did not get the chance to take the Capetown advice last year since I ended up coming straight back to the US from West Africa.

If I'm going to Montreal, say starting in April and hopefully leaving in June or so, just me and a backpack and a duffel bag for a couple months, what's the best way to find temporary housing in a house-share? AirBnB, Kiji?

I'm not bringing a car, and so I want to live somewhere really walkable and near public transportation. I enjoy being right in the middle of things, so any recommendation on neighborhoods that are walkable and have a lot of cultural stuff going on, lots of people out and about doing interesting things? Maybe close to large parks or whatever public spaces to chill?

Any can't-miss cultural experiences I should seek out? I like museums, folk music, bicycling, pretty standard "less tech-nerd more culture-nerd" hobbies, etc.

I would ask in the Montreal Goonmeet thread but it got archived, but maybe I can figure out who the social queen-bees are in the thread and ping them.