Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
The tourist industry in my town belongs to large international hotel chains, fake “rich people” stores in the city center, an ungodly amount of “souvenir shops” on prime real estate who are suspiciously void of customers most of the time and some casinos. It’s not “the locals” who put them there.
To be fair, non-Parisian French also hate them. I will always remember my first trip to Paris, I was like 17, never really been to a big city before. I stepped out of Gare de l’Est, completely overwhelmed, so I asked an old lady who was walking her dog where the bus stop I was looking for was. Without missing a beat, she kindly told me to fuck off. Delightful.
Although in her defence, they must have 1000s of scams to dodge on a daily basis so the fuck off approach is probably their default.
But still, even the French hate the French, especially if they’re from Paris.
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Do you know how many places would be actually nice to live in if there just were much less tourism? Most if not all tourist hot spots.
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Right, yeah, because its people that get to choose what flavour of exploitation their native city will opt for.
The tourist industry in my town belongs to large international hotel chains, fake “rich people” stores in the city center, an ungodly amount of “souvenir shops” on prime real estate who are suspiciously void of customers most of the time and some casinos. It’s not “the locals” who put them there.
To be fair, non-Parisian French also hate them. I will always remember my first trip to Paris, I was like 17, never really been to a big city before. I stepped out of Gare de l’Est, completely overwhelmed, so I asked an old lady who was walking her dog where the bus stop I was looking for was. Without missing a beat, she kindly told me to fuck off. Delightful.
Although in her defence, they must have 1000s of scams to dodge on a daily basis so the fuck off approach is probably their default.
But still, even the French hate the French, especially if they’re from Paris.
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If we could get rid of visitors like you, it’d be an even better place to live
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