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Soooo jealous! I've always wanted to go to Sweden. :D

Best place I've ever been is India (this was about seven years ago). Although they are having a lot of social problems now that temper my memories somewhat, at the time it was overwhelming. So many people and colours and smells and so much life everywhere! Amazing and beautiful.

My least favourite place to visit is Paris. People are so rude there. (Sorry, rubbertea, I know you're from France! No insult intended.)

My least favourite place to visit is Paris. People are so rude there.

I have to agree with this. Most other places have their share of dickheads, but in Paris that seemed to be more of a rule than an exception. Going to the countryside, on the other hand, was like entering a completely different France and that more than made up for the Paris experience.

My experiences of Paris and non-Paris France are similar.

Well, my experiences with Paris vs rest of France (when going by car) is that Paris has very aggressive drivers, so I try to avoid it.

Have you come across 'Paris syndrome'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

It's a specific and severe kind of culture shock induced by the Parisienne attitude. Japanese tourists are apparently particularly susceptible to it, coming from a country where politeness is so important.

I don't find Paris that bad, but it just amuses me rather than horrifies me. ;)

Looks like there's a syndrome for everything :D
I'm not sure if I should be disappointed or glad that I didn't get hallucinations.

while there's no excuse for being a dickhead, and that there are lots of them in paris, you have to understand that it's the most visited place in the world, and that means people working and living there usually don't have the time or the patience to help you out. they're just trying to go to work, or go home, and they don't feel like accommodating tourists. also, a lot of them are ashamed of their bad english and don't have the motivation to speak in anything but french.

When my dad and I visited Paris, people thought we were just from another part of France because my dad's accent tends to mutate depending on who he's talking to. He usually sounds more Québécois, but he was like: "No, I must speak like the locals!"
And I went to French school up until 10th grade so my accent also tends to be French rather than Québécois. We were almost like chameleons, lol.

It rather sounds like they should either suck it up or move. Paris is far from the only major tourist city in the world, and yet New Yorkers, Londoners, Romans, and many others manage to be polite and helpful as a rule.

I don't think anyone mentioned the issue of speaking in French? Certainly it seems to me that any tourist complaining about someone speaking their native language is the dickhead, not the other way round.

Aren't New Yorkers kind of famous for being jerks to tourists, though

Oh, no way. I've heard that before, but I've been to NYC four times now? And I've met so many friendly, polite people there.

Like when my friend and I were talking about what stop to get off on the subway to see this one tourist site, a stranger politely corrected us because we would've gotten off at the wrong one. And that guy who helped carry my luggage up the stairs, and another person who randomly offered to throw out my empty food container at a hockey game when I stood up in the aisle so he could pass by. Plenty of nice conversations with lots of people, too.

DA here has been to NYC a few times as well and found it to live up pretty well to the stereotype of being full of jerks.

I try to be really nice and respectful when I travel, so maybe that's why I tend to get good reception.

We met some cops who seemed pretty incompetent, though?

I'm sorry, anon, but...I think you must be doing something wrong.

Yeah, people in Manhattan were nothing but helpful to me when I needed it and pleasant otherwise.

Yeah, I've never had bad experiences there before either. But then again I've never had any experiences with rude people in Paris either. It's just kind of funny seeing new yorkers being cited in that context I guess, since it's ultimately silly to judge a whole city anyway

I've never had that experience when in NYC. On the contrary, everyone I've encountered has been nice and more than happy to help.

New Yorkers tend to be polite and helpful to tourists as a rule? LOL...

This is exactly what my mother says about the class trip to France she took in college. Paris was full of nasty people but Avignon and Nice had the best people ever.

A lot of people say that about the French (and Paris in particular) but I never had a problem. People weren't smiley and warm, but almost everyone I encountered was just fine. I was worried about my poor French skills, but people were usually very patient, it was only a problem once or twice. That's totally on me, of course.

I think it definitey depends on your individual experience. Of course not all of Paris is inhabited by rude people! But as someone above said, it definitely seems to be the rule rather than the exception.

I'm glad you've had positive experiences in Paris (and France), anon. :)

This. I wasn't a fan of Paris for other reasons, but the people weren't outright rude. They were brusque and didn't fake friendliness, but they weren't being assholes for the sake of assholishness.

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