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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Big deal, they have a tower just like this in Vegas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] HobbitFoot 2 points 1 month ago

No, they also have one in Vegas that is a replica.

The funnier thing was that they had the Statue of Liberty wear a Golden Knights Jersey when Vegas won the Stanley Cup.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now that they're basically banning cars, it might be worth a visit again

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They didn't actually ban cars. Only reduced traffic to certain areas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've heard Finland is on the up and up with clean cities.

Apparently the popo there are quite heavy-handed when it comes to littering and such.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Pick up that can

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Paris is a great city that I really enjoy visiting every time I go there, but you're perfectly right that it's incredibly overrated, anything with that reputation really must be, nothing that exists in reality could possibly come even close to such a myth.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah Paris is great as a cool, old, European city with lots of history. If you like just hiking around cities it's great. I can imagine if you go into it thinking it is like some French tourist resort, you will be disappointed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wtf? How?? (and I'm not French)

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While there is tons of nice place/stuff to do in Paris, many people see it as a perfect, romantic, ideal whatever city, and a visit there the trip of a lifetime.

Paris is a 10 million inhabitants urban area with all the associated problems,

Imagine thinking you're in the perfect city and being stuck in a crowded train, then in traffic, and falling in any possible tourist traps, from the barely legal but legal low quality, high price restaurant to the pickpocketsand other petty crime

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Went to Europe for my honeymoon and Paris was the first stop since the wife hadnโ€™t been to Europe. She thought it was dirty and underwhelming.

A nice city to see for sure but for sightseeing and museums. Felt like New York City in a way.

[โ€“] HobbitFoot 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is a good comparison. There is a lot to see in both cities and they have good transit systems, but it can be really disorienting if you aren't used to city life and the grime of cities is harder to hide.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

My wife thought it was wild how aggressive some street vendors are and how they set up tourist trinkets on blankets on the ground. We live very rurally haha

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Screenshot of all the interesting places I have been or want to visit in France. Note the lack of dots in Paris. There are far, far nicer places to spend your time in France

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's the one in Luxembourg? I'm planning on visiting in the next few years.

[โ€“] HobbitFoot 12 points 1 month ago

Paris has been romanticized a lot in media, to the point where the Japanese embassy has to have staff on hand to handle the dispair of Japanese tourists visiting and getting disappointed.

I remember Paris being a pleasant large Western city, but it is still a large Western city with all that it entails.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd always heard people talk about how dirty Paris is, but it was so clean when I visited last year. Admittedly my point of comparison is San Francisco, but still.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you stray further than the tourist center? Like the area around gare du nord I hated the most. Spend a summer working there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I did. Still nicer than San Francisco LOL

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I also don't get the hype around Paris. It's not super ugly but also nothing special.

I don't live too far from it, could easily go there for a week-end or even day trip. Still only been there twice and have no plans to go there again. In many spots it's very crowded and dirty and the attractions aren't better than in any other major city.