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I've lived in Paris (and Lyon) for years, and here is what I have to say about that: - "Apartment quality is really really bad": no always true, like in any ot
by alexjab 12y ago
I've lived in Paris (and Lyon) for years, and here is what I have to say about that:
- "Apartment quality is really really bad": no always true, like in any other major city (try NYC),
- "The weather is awful, it rains 40% of the days": the same,
- "food quality is abysmal": very true (only applies to restaurants, supermarket food is standard),
- "Parisian being grumpy": fair enough,
- "pretending not to speak English": I don't think that's true (but it's hard to objectively assess).
- jmnicolas 12y ago> "pretending not to speak English" It's not that they pretend, they really don't speak English ;-) More precisely they have some notions of English but 1) they won't understand a native and can only pick a few words 2) they're ashamed of their accent so they won't even try to speak 3) due to their poor lifestyle Parisians are (mostly) dicks and do not represent Frenchies in general. Don't get fooled by the French people you see on HN (like me) they are a rarity.
- alexjab 12y ago> "they really don't speak English ;-)" I had it on the tip of my tongue, but I did not want to sound too offensive; although I dread to say it, it is quite true; however, it's not uncommon to hear people at least trying.
- tormeh 12y agoHave you lived in Paris? Everyone I talk to tell me parisians* are dicks. I don't get how an entire city can be full of only arrogant bastards. Is that really the case? *or however it's written.
- Yoric 12y agoJust to clarify, "parisiennes" == "women of Paris". Is that what you had in mind when you wrote that comment?
- tormeh 12y agoNo, my loose grasp-attempt at French is worse than I thought.
- jmnicolas 12y agoYes I tried to live in Paris and I ran away after just 2 weeks (crappy job didn't help). I go there about once a year, and it's enough. Parisians treat everybody badly, it's not specifically directed at foreigners, I'm French and I feel like I'm annoying them too. Off course I'm generalizing here. If they know you they will treat you humanly. But just try to ask your direction to someone in the street and feel the "love" :-)
- patrickaljord 12y ago> due to their poor lifestyle Parisians are (mostly) dicks and do not represent Frenchies in general. Really? Cause that's a pretty dickish thing to say. Also, most people who work/live in Paris are not actually from here, so if you consider Paris to be full of dicks, that would mean most French are too. Just saying.
- foobarge 12y ago> they really don't speak English ;-) I see it slowly changing - I blame this on how good American TV has become now (I'm taking about the series of course.)
- Gmo 12y agoI have to agree with most of this (not Parisian, but French, going to Paris regularly)