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SF Couple Moved to France a Year Ago, They're Already Kind of Sick of It (sfist.com)

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it's you, not the french?

I live here, as a foreigner, and sure the bureaucracy is wild as is the language but I haven't felt what you're conveying, especially in Paris where no one gives a damn if you speak english or anything, you could dress up in toilet paper and people wouldn't care.

Gotta go look at some impressionist paintings and then go to the movies, after eating some good stuff, all on my modern bicycle.

On the countryside people are more like the common clay, but they are like that for everyone.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Again, every other country, every other city in France were lovely.

The louvre was gorgeous.

As I said, Paris would be great if it wasn't for all the fucking people.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, yes that's known, in paris people are stressed and rudish, but they are that to everyone without discrimination.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It didn't seem like stress, it seemed like they genuinely enjoyed being superior entitled assholes.

And as an American, I thought I had a high threshold for that.

The rest of Europe was incredible, the Nordic countries are my vision of heaven on earth. Mostly moved to Sweden, yesterday basically cut my last ties.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's also cultural, when you go to a café or a shop or a restaurant in Paris, you go to someone elses place (theory is that as it's so small in overcrowded Paris, it was actually someones home too and history made the rest), you are not some golden client and instead you are on their turf, so they can ask you to move, not serve you etc.

Maybe that's why some people think the french are rude.