i just got back from 10 days in Europe and Paris was easily the highlight.

not dirty, the people aren't rude like you hear if you even try to speak a little french, and there aren't tons of arabs/africans like the news would have you believe.

until you've been to Paris everything else is just window dressing IMO.

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Posted by Bear-O-Dactyl

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Posted on 5/24/19 at 1:28 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill

Updated Bordeaux.

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the people aren't rude like you hear if you even try to speak a little french

This is what I noticed as well. One of the few sentences I can say in French is "Hello, do you speak English?" and most people were really appreciative that I would even ask. They said that pretty much everyone knows English outside of the really old people, but that it got really annoying that everyone would just come up and start speaking to them in what is a foreign language in their country and just assuming they would understand. Makes sense to me. I'd get annoyed after a while too if random people kept coming up to me and speaking in different languages and just thinking I knew what they were talking about.

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Posted by baldona

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Posted on 5/24/19 at 2:43 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill

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the people aren't rude like you hear if you even try to speak a little french

I think a lot of it is in the summer time also. Its hot and they get tired of the throngs of tourists.

I've seen it. I loved Paris and definitely had a great experience and I always use the local greetings and what not. But I've seen the locals in Paris be as rude or worse than anywhere else in Europe. I think some of it is the big city mentality too.

Outside of Paris, the French have been fantastic and not a single bad experience.

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