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Old Posted Feb 18, 2016, 5:21 PM
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PARIS, Vaugirard

A little tour in the 15th arrondissement

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Old Posted Feb 18, 2016, 10:37 PM
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Ouaou!

Amènes-en du plus que Paris mon Minato Ku! Et que ça saute, on en a besoin.
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Old Posted Feb 19, 2016, 12:37 AM
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Nice street shots. Really have the feelings of imagining myself being involved in them.

Paris is very big city right? How is daily life in there? I used to work in Manhattan and live in Brooklyn as a one-hour single-ride subway communter, it was mundane. Well, real life in NYC not as fancy as the photos show. Maybe I sucked.
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Old Posted Feb 19, 2016, 12:05 PM
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Paris is very big city right? How is daily life in there?
The city of Paris proper is only 40 sq mi large, which is very small compared to the overall urban area and other global cities in the world. But it's entirely covered with that kind of super dense streetscape, which still makes a behemoth of it.

As for daily life, it mainly depends on what you bring to it, yourself. Most definitely like anywhere else.
Of course as any big town, it tends to be expensive, especially for housing in the central city you see in these pictures. That's the major downside. Otherwise, happiness is feasible in there.
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Old Posted Feb 20, 2016, 3:53 PM
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The city of Paris proper is only 40 sq mi large, which is very small compared to the overall urban area and other global cities in the world. But it's entirely covered with that kind of super dense streetscape, which still makes a behemoth of it.

As for daily life, it mainly depends on what you bring to it, yourself. Most definitely like anywhere else.
Of course as any big town, it tends to be expensive, especially for housing in the central city you see in these pictures. That's the major downside. Otherwise, happiness is feasible in there.

Onne di éte dé, Gode criétude Parisse. Ya pas plus vrai.
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Old Posted Mar 4, 2016, 11:32 PM
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Street walls and corridors for days. Bet it's easy for visitors and new arrivals to get turned around.
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Old Posted Mar 5, 2016, 9:02 AM
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I need to go back, it's been a while. Thanks for the reminder.
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Old Posted Mar 5, 2016, 5:13 PM
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Street walls and corridors for days.
mm, that beats high-rises so far. The thing is walls have to grow taller and taller anyhow, floor by floor. Cause this very shit would end up sprawling way too much in the end.

But they don't like dickheads so much over here, even when tall penises are actually super helpful sometimes. That's why I'm advocating their pricks. Walls could be 30 or 40 floors tall instead of 6, 8 or 10.
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I wandered the 15th practically all night a few months ago. Had dinner atop Musee Quai de Branley and then took a loooong walk all through the 15th, until 3 AM or something.

It was an interesting area. Very diverse blend of older and newer housing, wealth and modesty, and generally a nice mix of uses and peoples. A few areas were quite active late at night. Definitely off the beaten tourist path, and felt like "regular Paris".
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Old Posted Dec 18, 2016, 1:17 PM
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In late August.

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68. Petite Ceinture (inner railway belt), a disused railway line.

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Exactly as I recall. Thanks.
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Old Posted Dec 22, 2016, 8:55 PM
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A small update

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Old Posted Dec 25, 2016, 10:02 AM
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No so called boulevard or avenue. Guess it's not wide or 'grand' enough to be called those names, but this (rue de Vaugirard) is still known to be the longest street in the old town, stretching over 2 arrondissements, the 6th and the 15th. Definitely feels endless when you walk it, doesn't it?
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Old Posted Dec 29, 2016, 11:07 PM
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It's the longest street that doesn't change of name.
I mean what is extraordinary is not the lenght of the street but the fact the axis of Rue de Vaugirard doesn't change of name like many other axis.

Parallel to Rue Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement, there is Rue Lecourbe.
Rue Lecourbe becomes Rue de Sevres then becomes Rue du Four becomes Rue de Buci and then becomes Rue Saint André des Arts.
If it keep the same name all over the way, it would be even longer than Rue de Vaugirard.

The former main North South axis of Paris, Rue Saint Jacques becomes Rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques and then Rue de la Tombe Issoire.
On the right bank, Rue Saint-Denis becomes Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis then becomes Rue Marx Dormoy then becomes Rue de la Chapelle.

When in America, a street can have the same name on tens of miles, in Europe it's pretty usual for a street to change names every few blocks.
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Old Posted Jan 4, 2017, 7:21 PM
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Hm, I guess lots of people would kill to have their little names honored in the streets here, right? But some are nonetheless deserving. I don't mind when a street is named after a great scientist, a big mathematician or folks like these.

Moreover, we have quite a bunch of streets named after some significant foreign characters to show we're not sectarian, but basically appreciative.

The problem with street credits is when they turn into political provocations, like those from the far right who would find interesting to have some "rues du Brexit" (Brexit streets) in their towns at the moment. Quite laughable. Or even pitiful. Pathetic.
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Dat dense urban environment tho
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