Tell your friend to STAY AWAY from possibly the worst place to live in North America.
Besides for the fact that it is like Siberia there for 9 months of the year. The kehilla there is NOT thriving, contrary to what folks there will have you believe. The kehilla there is shtetl style. Very yentish and of course clickish. The local hechsherim, are unfortunately sub-par by american standards, the MK and Sfardi hechsherim would be a joke in Brooklyn or Lakewood. As for yeshiva there, it was driven into the ground years ago. No rosh yeshivos ever came out of that place. The French (and English) hatred of the yidden there is palpable. The list of chesroinis can really go on and on. There are NO advantages whatsoever in living there. Everyone I know leaves that place eventually unless they have a family business to manage!