As a guy (as weird as it may sound) I've been followed and jumped on by a drugged up homeless making sexual advances in an isolated street next to Gare du Nord.

As a guy (as weird as it may sound) I've been followed and jumped on by a drugged up homeless making sexual advances in an isolated street next to Gare du Nord. There was a small altercation and I ran away. In the same trip I've experienced several instances of homeless or just economic immigrants from Africa grabbing your arm trying to steal / sell you something. There is also plenty of homeless peeing and pooping pretty much everywhere in Paris, which is disgusting enough. I found London to be much better compared to Paris, even if things got way worse in the last few years. 5-10 years ago it was a rare occurrence to see homeless people, now you see homeless people sleeping everywhere and shooting drugs on the street like it's nothing. I've since moved in the middle of nowhere and I'm definitely not going to raise my kids in a city.