Posted on 09/14/2016 8:53:11 AM PDT by NRx
It was 1am and we were just leaving dinner at a friend’s house behind Montmartre. We were tired, but the taxi we’d called for never appeared. So we headed down to the main road to try to hail a cab, along with a number of other stragglers now wishing, like us, they’d kept Metro hours.
Within minutes, several men had urinated in plain sight very near to us; one had clambered up on a little raised platform with some shrubbery on it just to do so. Nearby, a woman yelled in French “You’re no better than beasts!” but the beasts took no heed. Faced with this scene, not a taxi in sight, we walked the three-and-a-bit miles back to our flat. This was Paris in 2016.
Despite its extraordinary charms, the City of Light can also feel like an anarchic, post-apocalyptic hellhole – people litter, spit and pee freely in the streets, as if the city were their personal lavatory, bin and ashtray combined.
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So it is just like New Jersey now?
Place Pigalle was a sewer as far back as the ‘80s.
Coming soon to an Obamanation near you.
It’s Montemarte, which has always been shady.
Ping!
No public restrooms means people just pee on the sidewalk in the middle of the day, I’m an unfortunate witness
I remember all the dog poop when I visited Paris back in the mid80s.
Sounds like mid-town or downtown Houston but much worse. I had to walk around human feces on the sidewalk when going from the townhouse to the toy train headed downtown.
I’ve given up walking though after the knock out attack at discovery green last week and feeling very uncomfortable. It seems a shame to drive 10 or 12 blocks. Hot here anyway, sweat soaked by the time you arrive for work if you walk a block.
I was just there 10 days ago ...nonsense. I was all over Paris, not just the tourist places. No worse than NYC. A filthy hellhole, Naples, Italy or Warsaw, Poland
Once again, eternal thanks to my great-grandfather for leaving that screwed-up country and emigrating to West Virginia.
I have advised people for the last decade to AVOID Paris. Its a dump, and no amount of propaganda or Devil Wears Prada fiction can hide it.
put a fence up, bring in the scumdog mooselimbs and let the pigs eat
Pee is the least of their concerns. The Jihad and Islam is their scourge.
We were in Paris less than a year ago......but we were staying in a nice area, not far from the Louvre. No urine smell, no beggars. And may I quote Laura Ingraham.....’nothing good happens after midnight’. Lots of cities, in specific areas of each city, are disgusting late at night. We just don’t go out (or stay out) late at night.
This wasn’t my experience of Paris. And most American cities are cesspools any way. Been to Baltimore lately?
Well I went there during WW II and there were open bathrooms on the streets but I still saw a guy unloading between cars. Thought it strange but then I thought of NYC with paper containers all over the place and people still threw paper as they walked. Well it’s better than urine.
“I was just there 10 days ago ...nonsense. I was all over Paris, not just the tourist places. No worse than NYC.”
My sister just returned from Paris after a month or so stay. She is based in Manhattan but would love to move to Paris. To hear her talk, you’d be led to believe Paris is the most wonderful city on the planet.
Seems every city has plenty of trash and public urination. There may have been one exception though, back in the eighties, before the Muslim invasion, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St Paul were so clean to the point of being weird, like something out of the Twilight Zone.
ahhh .... diversity.
I am sure so much of this because of some liberal idiots wanting diversity.
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