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This has to be some grade 1 Wikipedia trolling. If someone doesn't understand Paris or think "it sucks", then perhaps they're either a clueless teenager or an

• prmoustache 4y ago
  Or a french expatriate like me :D And for a tourist all it takes sometimes is a few bad experiences with the locals which was the case of my non french gf when she visited it. As a french, whose family is still based in the vicinity of Paris, I still don't really get it compared to some other nice european cities that I think are much more attractive/beautiful and better to live in. I would also say that experience vary differently when you are a tourist (i.e. with a budget and time that allows you to enjoy the good parts) or when you are struggling to make a living in a city and don't really have the money and time to dedicate on the cultural stuff. Also your perception can change based on becoming indifferrent to things you are used to see. I am living in a touristic city and every day I am kind of amused and puzzled to see tourists taking photos of my street [1]. And then I realized I did the same of similar streets when I was a tourist as well. [1] buildings aren't especially nices but it is car free, has a number of exotic trees in the middle and residents have unofficially and kind of illegally privaticized the public space by putting plants, palets made fences and garden furniture to delimit space.