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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
Well, for living or for tourism, I always stay in the best parts of a city. Always. I don't see the point of not taking the most of a city can offer.
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If you don't have 1 million euros to buy an apartment in the City of Paris, you'll quickly drop your stance and bow to the inevitable: a 500,000 euros apartment in the 1st ring of suburbs, or a 300,000 euros one in the 2nd ring of suburbs.
My cousin the engineer always makes fun of his colleagues who pay astronomical sums of money to live in cramped apartments in the city center, when he lives in a large and comfortable house in the suburbs. He says the only thing that matters to them is having the name "Paris" at the end of their postal address, which is ridiculous. Living in the suburbs, he can access all the amenities of central Paris by car (like opera, concerts, etc), without having to ruin himself and live in a small cramped apartment.