Paris, not like it used to be
Things change. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. We get elated when it's good but when it's bad we feel dissatisfied and disappointed.This is how I feel about Paris. It used to be different. Very clean and relatively safe. Now I strolled downtown, ate and shopped in the same place five years ago and I feel so much different. I can feel the deterioration and lack of safety which was prevalent in the old days.
My friend who lives here for the last 30 years feels the same way. Like everyone they share the sentiments of being diluted, polluted which eventually leads to the biggest fear every European feels in the current political and social cultural events sweeping the whole union, the influx of migrants from Africa and middle east.
Change is constant, nothing is permanent. I only hope that this volatile climate doesn't lead to the complete disappearance of the old, distinct and unique European culture as we once knew.
Anyways, I am here to enjoy myself and simply observe how it is. I will try to come every year and feel for myself the events that shape a country I used to love before it's completely lost.
Comments (54)
Yes, Paris has changed over the years. What place hasn't? Still, I love to visit.
buses,one or two people seem less friendly than in London..
staring at your face and not smiling ..
YES I noticed in lille (not far from paris) that policemen were there with rifles
and I did not like it..even with dogs as well
One time California was left to deteriorate when it comes to thievery and uncleanliness, Swarzenneger, imposed on heavy fines and penalties on the perpetrators. We restored back cleanliness in the whole state.
Wouldn't it be great if: we can treat a place better than when we came in?
Now, apart from the biggest challenge of Europe Europe because of this migrants, I've no concern, but going back to my OP, this undermines the changes I've personally eexperience and observe kn this beautiful country.
there'll no peace as long as USA plays god of war...
I don't think I'm the ignorant one when it comes to war and conflict...I've seen with my own eyes what American has done to Iraq...I was there....
I am here...in the Middle EAST...CLOSE TO THE WAR....i FEEL FEEL AND SEE THINGS THAT YOU AND OTHERS CAN'T FEEL AND SEE...YET YOU TALK SO MUCH ABOUT IT...
Read GRN, WSJ, the who world is geared towards the biggest wave if migration that is happening since WW2.
Now this post is nothing to do with any that you insinuated, just the changes that I've personally observe in a country I love to visit.
If you chose to ignore it that's your choice but don't interject education as though talking about these things us because if it or lack of it.
Now you talk so much about how beautiful your life us, good for you. How about the 80 percent starving many in the world? Which justifies quest for a better life. How many countries in the world can offer that.
This topic is about those that migrants take place and contribute to the deterioration of the place. Not about how good your life is nor mine.
LoL, really? Actually Caribbean is wrong too. Depends on which Island. No Visa needed for an American going to St. Thomas, St. Croix or Puerto Rico or Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Also I think you will find we need visas for Malaysia, Philippines, S. Korea, Indonesia, Burma and probably a dozen other places.
Africa, I am not sure about Liberia. Someone check that. I know lots changed after Doe, but before him no Visa was required.
hope you'll have a much better and fun Paris adventure tomorrow...goodnight!
I am not recommending anyone to travel without checking their immigration requirements. I'm holder of E passport and even easier to travel. I do check always what is required when I travel and would advise the same for anyone.
"The Middle east us a heaven for all of you there just as much as the US to the whole world. To prove it, no one can visit my country without a permit, or visa, but we, US citizens, we can go anywhere kn the world without one. Does it make you wonder why?"
Hatred of the weak is the behaviour of women and insecure men. Real men know that humanity is a hierarchy and pecking order, and we do not hate the foundations for being at the bottom just as we do not hate the Africans for being our primitive origin.
No the problem France has is the problem that you are, Lindsy. The complete absence of quality control and the belief that chimps can be equal to civilised Europeans through culture, education and training. In the nursery rhyme you and the French are the little pig who makes his home from straw. The complete neglect of the human raw material beneath is where you go wrong.
It really demonstrates which is more important out of nature versus nurture. Ideally you'd take the good quality control of the British(the best natures)and combine it with France's stricter social discipline(the best nurture). But it is clear which one is more important just by looking at the difference between London and Paris.
Tight-border multi-culti is better than open border assimilation. I'd like to ban the burqa and other displays of hard line religiosity- I'd like us to have tight-border assimilation - but more important is keeping the loons out to begin with. I'd prefer a right-minded foreigner who can't speak English over a foreign lunatic who can. Nature trumps nurture.
I would love to visit Strasbourg. Next September.
I would love to visit Strasbourg. Next September.