Canada’s capital city is nestled along the aforementioned Ottawa River. Farms to the south and rolling hills to the north make Ottawa a small but liveable city with a population over 1.1 million. Predominantly a white collar government town (the city is also known as the, “the city that fun forgot”), the city also offers a tech and cultural scene with a decent bilingual population. While the downtown is walkable, a car is necessary in the suburbs and further out.