I think you are being overly optimistic. I live in Ottawa and while Gatineau is very nice and most people are very accommodating, as a mostly unilingual Anglophobe (with respect to official languages) I have difficulties with: * understanding the various signs in the bus. There is a literal wall of text in buses that explain various boarding rules which I don't understand. This matters due to my Ottawa bus pass has different priviledges adn access than normal STO bus passes. Although the STO website does have an excellent translation for getting on the buses and the various rules, the actual bus is not as helpful * At UQO (where my former organization has an office), they had various emergency instructions on how to deal with active shooter situation. Except all the instructions were in French. They had signs to put up on the window to indicate the status of the room (safe, need help, etc) that were in French only. It was eventually fixed but it was only when one of my colleagues followed up with the university

The above examples were institutions that are funded by municipal and provincial government.

To be clear, I am not particularly objecting to the current situation. Gatineau is fairly accommodating and I found the people very nice. And if I want to live in Quebec, I would put in more effort to learn French. However, I find your statement that "you'll be able to live your life largely without a problem" with respect to servies and opportunities to not be realistic.