#New2MTL: Choosing to make Montreal home

Marc Delesclefs, Sally Green and their two young boys had never set foot in Quebec, let alone in Canada, before uprooting their lives and moving across the Atlantic to Montreal.

What they knew about the city, they had learned on the internetand through word of mouth. But they had a hunch the city would be a good fit, and would offer a reprieve from their busy lives in London,England.

A few short months later, their children are learning French and despite the initial struggle, the couple already consider themselves Qubcois.

Theirs is one of many stories CBC Montreal will bring you as we ring in the new year with a seriesabout the people who made this city their home this year.

Read all the stories from Daybreak's New2MTL series here.

#New2MTL

Every day this week, we will meet a newMontrealerwho packed up their lifeand moved across borders.

They came for a varietyof reasonsfor better education for their children, to live in a safer environment, to find a job, to join Montreals booming start-up scene and to take advantage of the city's growing services, like theBixibike-sharesystem.

The number of newcomers choosing Quebec has slowed over the past few years. The latest figures from the Quebec Statistics Institute show the province welcomed 3,000 fewer immigrants in 2013 than it didthe year before.

But those who are comingare largely young, highly educated, eager to work, and most of them settling in Montreal, Laval and Longueuil.

Follow our series on CBC Daybreak and on CBC.ca/Montreal and share your advice for newcomers to the city on social media with the hashtag #New2MTL.

We'll gather the best responses and feature them in our coverage.