I think housing crises are unfortunately nationwide by now. It's been going on for so many years that we've settled into a sort of equilibrium where there's no place left with both plentiful decent jobs and affordable plentiful housing.

The trick with Montreal is in being fluent in french. Even if one could get around the city without it day to day, there's no way to avoid it when dealing with provincial services. I think that's what's really helped Quebec to be not so awful on the housing front.