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Originally Posted by LSyd
why is it so gritty? it reminds me of areas of the U.S. with extreme economic collapse and depopulation.
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That's where the so generous social system puts the poor workers, immigrants and/or unemployed. That's the actual political socialism, my friend... These suburbs have been ruled by the French left wing for ages.
But they're close enough to central Paris to be saved, seriously redeveloped sometime.