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Originally Posted by Crawford
Ok, this is all absurd.
Paris proper does not have a lot of greenery. And Paris was always a gritty city. And it has never been more livable. The boulevards used to be super-noisy and chaotic with all the diesel cars and motorbikes. The public sphere is vastly better than 20 years ago.
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Here’s right in the Bois de Boulogne and claiming that’s inside Paris, when it’s beyond the ring road. Paris that I’m interested it’s the inner arrondissements, both as a tourist and also as a citizen if I decided to move there. Heck, even here in SP I hardly ever leave Downtown, so why on Earth I’d go to Paris suburbs if I lived there?
Paris got hundreds and hundreds of new gardens, new trees by removing car parking. Few cities have improved more in a such planned way. We’ve documented improvements in several cities here, but Paris is a special case as it was by design.
And I don’t go into petty politics (“I don’t like the mayor because she’s a communist”). That’s silly and more important, boring. I couldn’t care less about the ideology of French mayors. Propaganda or not, Parisians are aproving. It’s been ruled by this group for almost 30 years now.
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