Montreal Urban LifeUrban BehaviorMontreal Less Savory AreasLike all big cities, Montreal has areas where urban behavior is less savory than in others. Visitors are wise to stay away from them at night. For example, since the creation of the Quartier des spectacles, the Montreal Red Light is now everywhere in the heart of the city and some areas in Ville Marie should be avoided late at night. 
Drug use and dealing has increased noticeably in the Shaughnessy Village around Sainte-Catherine between Atwater and Guy. It's not such a dangerous area but, if you can avoid it, do so, especially around the Cabot Square. Downtown Montreal east of Saint-Laurent becomes fairly seedy and dangerous at night, especially near Papineau in the Montreal Gay Village where there's plenty of drug use and prostitution. Try to avoid Parc Extension and Victoria Street in lower Côte-des-Neiges as they are not unfamiliar to gang violence and bully activities. 
In the North part of Montreal, two large groups defend their territories, the Crips in Saint-Michel and the Bloods in Montréal-Nord and Rivière-des-Prairies. The two groups are also called the Blues and the Reds in urban slang. The city’s five poorest neighbourhoods are: Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, the Gay Village, Pointe-Saint-Charles, Côte-des-Neiges’s Victoria district and Parc-Extension. The richest are: Westmount, Hampstead, Ville Mont-Royal, Beaconsfield and Montreal West. Montreal suffers from the traditional difficulties of the big cities: poverty, immigration and crime. Minimum wage workers remain vulnerable, and immigrants are often educated but underemployed. In spite of all this, the latest Mercer index ranks Montreal and four other Canadian cities as 1st among the safest cities in North America. Mercer carried out a classification of 215 large cities throughout the world. Montreal also fared well in the 2009 Maclean’s annual crime ranking of Canada’s 100 largest cities. Thank you for visiting Urban Behavior. Car Driving Tips
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