"And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter"
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The intent is conversational shorthand for a bigger point about memory and environment: you don’t just revisit locations, you revisit versions of yourself. “Some places… are so great” suggests comfort, nostalgia, the desire to re-enter a mood you can’t replicate at home. The flip side isn’t moral condemnation of a city so much as an acknowledgment that context matters. Montreal isn’t “bad” in winter; it’s demanding. The subtext is about friction: cold, inconvenience, maybe loneliness, maybe the grind of travel when the glamour wears off.
As an actor, Freeman’s authority here isn’t expertise so much as persona. He’s long been cast as the voice of calm perspective, the guy who can make a casual observation sound like a life lesson. The joke relies on that gravitas: he sets up something that could be a greeting-card platitude, then makes it human by admitting that some experiences simply aren’t worth repeating. It’s a reminder that taste is shaped as much by weather, timing, and circumstance as by the postcard view.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Freeman, Morgan. (2026, January 18). And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-some-places-you-been-before-are-so-great-that-937/
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Freeman, Morgan. "And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-some-places-you-been-before-are-so-great-that-937/.
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"And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-some-places-you-been-before-are-so-great-that-937/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




