Saturday, March 22, 2008

Paris vs. New York (or rather, banlieu's vs. billboards)

So now having been both places I'm going to list some of the differences.

Metro:
Paris has it way cleaner and smoother ride wise, but New York's run's all the time, which is great at 3 or 5am.

Businesses:
In New York they're covered in stupid ads on every building, but at least they're open everyday (including Sunday). Not so in Paris with open stuff is few and far between on Sunday (I think I've complained about this before)

Food:
It's delicious in Paris, but you can get it delivered in New York at 4 in the morning (not to mention all sorts of other things).

Clubs:
No smoking in both cities. However half of New York doesn't follow this rule and in Paris it's pretty strict

Culture:
Manhattan has died a bit culture wise because of how expensive it's gotten. But it still rocks. And Brooklyn rocks as well.
Paris rocks in certain areas but there's not a noticeable, obvious "hipster-ville" quite like Brooklyn that just wreeeeeeaks with cool, poor, edge of fashion/art/literature kids who always know where the cool stuff is happening.

Stores:
Everything is cheaper in New York. Especially with the currency conversion rate.

Languages:
Lots of foreigners in both places, but NOTHING is worse that a thick Jersey accent coming out of a pretty girl's mouth. What a way to ruin it.

Beauty:
Hands down Paris is way more aesthetically appealing than New York. Not to mention less dirty.

Off to Paris tonight. Yay for 8 hours of flying (not).

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