The city

Things I like and do not like about living in Paris

Like

1. Listening to music and getting lost - it all sounds different when you panic.
2. Its not London, the second circle of hell.
   
3. The metro (my girlfriend likes the buses).
4. American film posters in French.
5. Middle aged men dressing like 18 year olds.
6. Sirens and car horns. Most of the time.
   
7. Walking, its like a maze.
8. The gypsy folk band who are always at Chatelet metro.
   
9. Getting on the 1 train and looking all the way down the winding carriages. Snakey.
   
10. I live one hour ahead of you and your GMT.

Do not like

1. Right on red, the meaninglessness of Zebra crossings.
2. Giving up smoking in a city where everyone is puffing.
3. Second hand English bookstores. A 25 year old paperback of Cheever stories? You dropped it in the bath/swimming pool/ocean? You spilled coffee and gravy on it? Its missing the last 3 chapters? 8€? SURE!
4. People laughing at my French accent.
5. Franprix.
   
6. Segway tours. If you run me down....
7. Living statues (these exist everywhere though)
8. Nobody queues.
   
9. Chocolat Orsons. Fat making sweets.
10. The angry men selling small Eiffel towers and croissant key rings at Sacré-Cœur. Hands off me.