Moving to Waterloo with family, need opinion from residents

[panamaniac]

I don't really agree with that, although I can't dispute your personal experience. To me the distinction is one of whether people are speaking among themselves in a language other than English (very common and perfectly acceptable - you rarely go into Tim Hortons without seeing a table of foreign language speakers socializing among themselves) or whether they are attempting to interact with the larger community in a foreign language (just doesn't happen, or in the rare cases where the person speaks no English at all, one reverts to a lot of pointing and hand gestures). If verter were in K-W, I would see a future in which he and his family use their mother tongue within the family and with others of their ethnic community, and English in their interactions with the broader community.