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Mercutio, better known as Monkey on another forum, busy trolling and bashing Paris. What's new!

Originally Posted by Mercutio

Oxford Street is busier than any street I have seen in Paris.

Personal opinion is not the same as proven fact.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

The City of London is the densest place in Europe in terms of building density, daytime population, and commerical space.

Err... no. That would be La Défense. It was already shown in previous threads that it has a higher floor space and daytime population density than la City de Londres.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

The West End of London is denser than any part of Paris in terms of shopping, nightlife, entertainment and general streetlife and buzz.

Claiming something without a source or reference, how convenient. One could also claim that Glasgow is more lively than London then. Why not.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

Neither Manhattan nor any part of central Paris have such a large shopping, nightlife, and entertainment district as London's West End. The West End has no parallels anywhere in the western world. Shinjuku and Shibuya in Tokyo are the only comparable districts on the same scale that I've seen elsewhere in the world.

Personal opinion is not the same as proven fact.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

The City of Paris is actually losing population.

Wrong. As Minato Ku has already explained, since the 1999 census the City of Paris has seen a population increase, a trend also seen in Manhattan, Inner London, and even the central wards of Tokyo.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

The city becomes less and less competitive too. Paris has rallied against Frankfurt but seems to have fallen further behind London. As a financial centre it is now certainly less important than Hong Kong and will probably be overtaken by Dubai and Singapore before long.

Personal opinion is not the same as proven fact.

Originally Posted by Mercutio

London has a much larger E/SE Asian community than Paris.

Nice try, but again it was already shown in previous threads that the Eastern/Southeastern Asian community is larger in Paris than in London. At the 2001 UK census there were 135,000 residents of Greater London who were born in Eastern and Southeastern Asia (http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/publica...te-2006-09.pdf). In Greater Paris in 2005 there were 208,000 immigrants from Eastern and Southeastern Asia (http://www.insee.fr/fr/recensement/n...s-immigres.xls), a figure which does not include 20,500 colonial citizens from French Indochina who were granted French citizenship at birth in Indochina and are therefore not counted as immigrants by French statistics.