Exploring the Protests and Streets of Paris
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After covering a lot of the UK in my series the Death of the High Street, I knew I had to get to another country to see if the major cities there are in the same shape.
I was expecting for there to be far more empty shops than I found. There were still a lot empty, but it took me longer than normal to find them, and the streets in Paris just seem to have more life in them with every row filled with apartments above.
People before hand kept telling me that Paris is dirty, and that I was going to be dissapointed. But I found it to be the complete opposite. I found that it was actually an incredibly beautiful city full of interesting things and nice people.
I was also impressed by how many book shops there were everywhere, not just book shops but people selling interesting looking books on the street.
The Eiffel Tower sucked though, unless you like 3 hour queues, dont bother...
If you want to show me round your town or city, and you are up for being my tour guide on camera, email me at wanderingturnip2022@gmail.com
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W.T
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I’ve got some good ideas for videos but you already have a guy in Blackpool. But does he know the history? The history Blackpool has is not much but it’s interesting.
it's so boss how well they match your outfit
Congrats on your 100k subs.....
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hey david enjoyed watching your video on paris but was very dissapointed in how untidy and how much graffiti was everywhere. what has happened to this once beautiful city? also on a personal note if you can tone down the swearing it would be nice. but i hope that you can get your hair cut soon matey. i look forward to your next video. take it eazi.
Interesting you call it a ‘retail crisis’ I think it’s more of a long term and permanent shift, a crisis is something that eventually ends. This is forever.
We need a seismic shift. It is clearly not sensible when business rents are too high for people to enter or remain in retail and there is something fundamentally wrong when the landlords seem happier to have their property empty than to take the devaluation. I don't know if that is because they can take it as a tax write off or what but there always appear to be people who want to sell in street markets they just can't afford to move up to bricks and mortar premises and that is leaving our cities with hollow empty hearts. This isn't something that can be fixed on a local level by our cash strapped local government that is being squeezed into insolvency by Westminster. It has become a national crisis as the centre has pulled more and more power to itself while taking no responsibility for our streets and urban environments. Any city needs some empty properties to let for new businesses to take up, the key factor is the speed of take up for those opportunities and in the UK there are large swathes of commercial property that are crumbling before anyone arrives to run a business. That doesn't seem to be happening in such a widespread and consistent manner in the US, it certainly isn't happening to anything like the same extent in Paris. I don't believe it is because British people have decided they don't want to see or touch things before they buy them or are too lazy to drive to the shops. It is a matter of the legal environment, how commercial property is owned and taxed.
@@nicka3697 sorry spelling mistakes i feel silly now, i type to fast but there we go.
@@nicka3697 click and collect may help, being bored with online shopping and sending things back maybe another factor to keep it going on, investment has been put into some towns and citys, but no way near enough to see many places fail.
@@nicka3697 i feel shops will never fade out, but high streets are about to change for good, we need more retail back on the high streets, lower the rent make people feel more safe again, get rid of drunks as well they ara a pain in the arse and lowlifes that ruin our high streets, to many chavs, delivery idiots on bikes as well, we need the decent back on our high streets, i doubt it will ever go and feel investment will safe it, as that is why out of town places are doing very well.
@@nicka3697 just tax land
Seen as the election has been announced it becomes official that this is the first time in British history where living standards have dropped during a single Parliament and it is the largest drop in living standards since the Napoleonic war. And at the same time the richest in society have got a lot richer deepening the divide.
When CBDCs get rolled out it'll be much worse
France built of the back of africa
It's called the cost of having a tory goverment
We are heading back into a new form of medievalism. The super rich ( the lords ) will own almost everything while the peasant ( that’s us ) will toil for them.
@@danielcunningham6727 exactly
I'm a Yorkshireman that lives in Paris. I wanted to add one thing that doesn't get mentioned AT ALL, but one huge reason the high street is still thriving here in Paris is that Amazon next day delivery simply does not work here like it does in the UK/London.
This morning for example, I need to buy a book - I check Amazon and the quickest delivery (with Prime) is in 4 days time. That's common - I haven't ever seen anything be able to get delivered within 24hrs, it's usually 3-4 days. So it means to buy that book today, I need to head out, explore book shops, speak to people and interact. Grab a baguette, grab a coffee etc. Basically, it's like it used to be in the UK before online shopping took over.
Whereas when I lived in London, I'd be able to order that book from my phone and it would be delivered to my flat that same afternoon. I didn't need to leave my home, didn't speak to anyone, and stayed inside.
Paris has its problems, but it'll never allow itself to have its high street decimated like in the UK - the people here value human interaction and small businesses far too much. On my street for example, the average age of each business seems to be around 40+ years.
How is a worse delivery service somehow a good thing?
If online retailers are genuinely more efficient for an end customer (and in most cases they are in the UK), then great, let them do what the customers like. I am not a fan of artificially limiting customer’s choice in order to “preserve the high street”.
You cannot have a book shop at every street corner with the same variety of books as Amazon has - and you don’t need to.
The average age of businesses on a high street being 40 isn’t necessarily such a great things - it likely means that there’s no space for new businesses to appear.
So if online retail allows new small businesses to compete with established shops and sell their stuff with delivery across the country, forcing the established shops to adapt to provide a better service or close and free up spaces for new businesses and/or housing (as we do need more housing), then it’s a part of life. Resisting against it is like resisting against automobile in order to preserve stage coaches.
"How is a worse delivery service somehow a good thing?"
It's very simple: because it has not decimated the high street here in Paris like it has done in almost every town centre in the UK. High streets here are vibrant, busy and full of life. Often with no tax-dodging global businesses either.
If people can get books delivered to their house on the same day from Amazon then they will. But doing so will deprive local businesses. Eventually, those local businesses will close down and you'll get the 'dead' high street found all over the UK.
I'm all for the free market, but only when it's fair. Amazon can afford to sell at a loss to keep the customer from visiting a high street competitor. Amazon can also negotiate extremely good deals with manufacturers simply because they can afford to when selling in such high volume (they also barely pay any tax, so they can get away with really aggressive margins compared to a local high street business)
2-hour delivery from Amazon was great when I lived in London - it's convenient and often cheaper than any alternative. But where will the UK high street be in 5 years, or 10 years time? I really dread to think. Most likely entirely non-existent.
@@Peeps-gx7mg and why should I care about preserving the high street for the sake of preserving the high street? I care about getting the products I need as cheaply and efficiently as possible and if Amazon or any other online retailer does it I am happy to use them.
Online retail does not only benefit big players - it also enables smaller businesses to get on the market without spending tons of money in commercial rent that serves no other purpose apart from making landlords richer. And they don’t even need to use Amazon - they can sell all their stuff country-wide using any delivery service from a single location.
Offline stores that fail to adapt to the competition with online retailers (which they could by providing, e. g. more personalised service, so you don’t just buy a book but get a personalised advice from the seller on what to read based on your preferences) do indeed close down, which means lower rents and more available space for businesses for whom it is actually important to be present on the high street, e. g. cafes and event spaces. If some space goes unused for a while that’s fine by me - it can be converted into another use, e. g. housing.
So no, I have no desire to artificially keep non-competitive businesses on life support for the sake of “preserving the high street”.
Congratulations on 100k well deserved 🎉
That street with the trees made you comment on feeling like wanting to be in a city. Though the trees obviously play a significant part, the absence of cars driving up and down there is worth mentioning.
Noticed so ,anyone the streets have concrete or metal bollards lining the streets & avenues.
Left me wondering....... where are all the cars? When I was younger, Paris was always known for its horrendously bad traffic!
@@DMWBN3 Two words. Mayor Hidalgo. She is transforming Paris by trying to save it from the car which was choking the city to death. Paris has extremely ambitious plans to move away from the personal motor vehicle by massively improving cycling and public transport infrastructure.
Looks like Paris has a lot less bookies than your average UK city
i get the feeling Parisians don't like to bet as much and that they are more tight with money so stands to reason why they don't want to part with their own shit. However I suppose their higher tax rate might have something to do with that.
There’s a lot less gambling degenerates in Paris.😮
France has a very different betting and horse racing system. The UK is unique in that regard
@@richardpiva3892 i think its because we are on the decline so much in britain that it makes more gamblers and paris isn't on the decline as much so they have less
They don't have bookies in France, the gambling is all state controlled. A National Lottery, and if you bet on the horses it is called PMU (Pari Mutuel Urbain- Pari means bet) and happens in cafes on a special lottery style terminal.
There are plenty that bet on the horses, it is all state controlled though. No slot machines except illegal ones and in Casinos, and with one exception all the Casinos have to be at least 40km from Paris and in a town with a Spa. Enghien-les-Bains is the closest to Paris.
Napoleon didn't like gambling.
Whoever told you Paris is like London is mad. Paris is built for pleasure, London is built for business. But id rather be locked out at night in London. France isnt as safe at night.
Love your channel, Turnip! I live in Washington State, in an affluent area outside of Seattle and despite it being one of the most expensive places in the country, there are an abundance of boarded up shops here too, I recently walked around a shopping center which caters to the wealthy residents of that city and noticed multiple shops boarded up. Even worse is downtown Seattle, it’s hard to put into words how bad it is there, majority of shops closed and boarded up, the ones that are open are subjected to rampant crime. Also, I was in Hawaii last week and could not believe the amount of closed shops in some of the tourist areas, one shopping center had about a 20% occupancy rate - to be honest it felt depressing walking through and seeing almost the entire building vacant. So nowhere seems immune from the decline of the high street. Keep up the great content, cheers.
Amsterdam where i live is not so bad but provincial cities a disaster. Is it fair to say that internet shopping and also the financial decline of the middle class has destroyed city life ?
@@louisdewit4429is the city life consists only of shops?
@@dmytrorubanov3340 - Shops invite people to hit the streets. It then attracts restaurants, coffeeshops …. liveliness.
Without shops the town is death.
You’ve visited after Paris has had its homeless removed and cleaned up for the olympics . Another visit needed when olympics has gone . Paris normally stinks
Very good point
The only issue I found in Paris was the abundance of dog poop everywhere...def not cool but a minor annoyance
You cannot generalize by talking about 'Paris'. The city has many different districts with different demographics. The center is much smaller than the central London Area, and it is much more densely populated than London or any other European City.
Another point, the homeless haven't been terminated, they've been displaced to other areas on Paris, and where the protagonist of this video is visiting is already one of the areas with the least homeless or 'stink', as you said above.
I mean, the video would've been totally different if he visited 18th or 19th district.
Exactly! IMO It is the most overrated city on earth.
That’s happening in coralecco, fuertaventura, the Canary Islands.
You know you’re getting old when you start getting excited over doorhandles shop 😂 (I’m currently excited about getting to buy a new front door so that wasn’t a read) 😜
Oh I know...I actually just got new doors AND windows in the end so I know the feeeling
Just look at what Brits have done to their own homes - ugly white plastic UPVC doors, windows, and door handles
@@wanderingturnip capital gains tax Paris protest
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You need to take the metro up to the gare du nord, barbes, stalingrad, or gare de l'est and have a nice stroll around there, and I think the comments section would be very different.
Ha ha ha!!!
Pourquoi faire ça ?
Not your first foreign video - you've done plenty that were not in Yorkshire.
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I'm from the US...and I even got it!
The consistent element is rising inequality, the poor are getting poorer, the middle class are being asset stripped by the wealthy and those wealthy people just keep on getting richer. You go to wealthy towns in the UK and their high streets are full of shoppers. People say it's the Internet, which has had an impact, however the richer an area the most they spend online yet their town centres are buzzing, even with pints starting at £5. You can map poverty straight onto vacancy on the High street.
Paris may have rich residents, but the tourists are drying up as they are being squeezed back home and inequality in France is getting worse.
@darrenguest2170 American here, and I often wonder the same thing. People go through fast food drive thrus spending $30+ for 2 people, it's insane. My home is paid off, and even so I massively feel the squeeze of skyrocketing prices everywhere. I can only assume that a lot of folks are probably in deep debt unless they're already very wealthy to begin with 🤷♀️
@@darrenguest2170 £9 a pint where i am and im not London based
So I live in a reasonably wealthy London Suburb (Bromley). And it is doing better, much better than Slough or Croydon but it is very much on the same trajectory. When large shops like Alders and C&A closed in the past other companies came in such as Primark or Next. That's not happening anymore. Debenhams is empty hidden behind permanent display boards in the main shopping centre. There are many more examples and smaller units too take much longer to fill or stay empty. The centre is shrinking, there are more pubs closing and restaurants failing at a rate that is ever increasing. The problem is endemic and while wealthier locations have some insulation it is only slowing the decline. If rows of shops are empty in Covent Garden it cannot be true to say the wealthy areas are safe. You have to look at the whole tax and ownership system for commercial property and stop propping up landlords in ways that allow and indeed encourage them to keep empty property empty while maintaining their personal affluent lifestyles.
@@spinstercatladya lot live in debt and think its normal and they probably have no ifea what their income and outgoings really are, many people i know seem to live with their head in the clouds, as long as the credit line is still ongoing they think they're fine
Which cities? He did an ep somewhere in London and the only difference between there and the North was that London had prettier boards. Not saying you aren't correct, but would love to know which cities you're referring to. I agree with the rest though. (i.e. eat the rich.)
Ooh la-la. I've been to Paris many times and always found it pretty grubby and run down honestly. Still nicer than most cities in the UK now though.
I completely agree! Don’t know why people find it a romantic city. It’s pretty gross tbh
@@joanainacio88 Compared to the UK........................????????????????????????????
From a woman’s perspective…
has anyone notice or bold enough to call the fashion industry out?
only (and even they have cheap & nasty) the thrash Chinese or 3rd world made with grossly poor fabrics apparently is all we get to choose from.
Where are all the beautiful Italian fabrics etc? Just absolute garbage in the shops everywhere in Europe
I think the difference with Paris and London is a lot of the shops are rented by older people who have had them for decades. Paris has strict rent control, so a lot of those little shops probably are paying very little rent. Once the older French people retire (very few young people want to be shopkeepers) and the rents can be raised to whatever the owner wants, it will be interesting to see what happens. More franchise stores, just like London. In my experience, France and Italy are about 20 years behind globalization trends happening in the USA and UK.
The 20 year gap - or in my opinion more like a 40 year gap - when I'm in Italy or France it feels like when I was a kid in the 80s uk, may still be in place due to protectionist policies and also a difference in lifestyle. In Italy many get the groceries for that night's dinner on the way home from an indie greengrocer or butcher rather than the weekly shop at the supermarket
@@ls.c.5682 I live in Milano, most people shop each day on the way home, but it's at the chain store supermarket like Carrefour or Esselunga. Maybe cause I am in Milano and Paris it is more like 20 years.
Happened in Netherlands.
It might have been said already but loads of book shops, helped by Amazon being banned from selling books in France.
Nobody has said that yet. Very interesting thank you 👍👍
I agree Amazon should be banned..and people need to stop using it..and that Bezos guy..oh I ha.te. him
@@TigerBoyX15 He's long gone - now retired but I'm sure getting $$$$ by the day from his stock in a business that has pretty much destroyed towns
@@TigerBoyX15 I will use what I like and what is convenient for me, thanks all the same.
@@TigerBoyX15 I'm not a big fan of Amazon, I rarely order stuff from there because I prefer to shop in person, but I don't think banning it is the right thing to do. Let people choose what they want to use.
Thank you for this video. I love your British tours and as a Frenchman I love this french shops tour even more
property rent is way way lower in France than in UK. keeps it vibrant
Private equity hasnt taken over real estate yet.
I just been going through your videos. I was born in the UK, lived in North Cray/Sidcup then we immigrated to New Zealand. At age 13yr we went back for 6mths Bromley area. I remember feeling so overwhelmed by the busy streets...so many people. Seeing the UK so damaged is sad. I am totally blown away by the amount of shops closed down, and the boards that are put up to "hide", let alone the houses that have painted doors on them to look better! But, I just wanted to say, that NZ is having similar, not as fast as over your side of the world. We have major housing crisis, many homeless, smaller towns have suffered, but we also have large retailers struggling to stay a float, another large store announced closing this week. This is a world wide problem for sure! Our health system is broken, its nothing to wait 10hrs in A n E, people have died from our poor system. This is a world wide crisis! The countries are struggling with their IMF payments etc. There is a huge shift - "you will own nothing, you will have goods delivered by drones, you will be happy" isnt that the UN slogan?? Thank you for videos, very eye opening, sad, but important.
Was there last few days for the first time. Walked 25 miles. Very vibrant and bustling. Annoyingly it is more beautiful than London. They got to keep all their old buildings. Still feels very much like France too. I even saw a woman walk past in a stripy top eating a baguette. Slightly jealous overall
Congrats to 100 K subs! Keep up the good work!
I loved that comment about the tower...."wow well that was a load of shite".😂 it's why your videos are so real and honest. I remember going up to the middle level in the 90's and thinking this looks rusty and it creaked a lot😢
Keep making the content. 100k can't be wrong.
"lovely bit of bush!" 👏
"what's this big long thing here!" Non🤚
@@AallthewaytoZ2I know!, grab Eleanor and get a room! 😂
"I will complain in my local paper about that" cracked me up. Class video again, congrats on 100K, well deserved. Looking forward to more from the continent from you
High rent/property prices is killing the economy in western countries.
Yes, stagnant wages, too
Wait until property prices crash - then we will experience a real economic bloodbath.
And why are the property prices too high and wages too low? Hmmmmm.
@@LawrenceTimme definitely not the scumbag piece of 💩 politicians or corrupt elite
Less rent, more money to spend on shops and services. basic math eh?
Cherrypicked city tour. Visit the Banlieues preferably at night.
Its great fun.
There will always be some empty shops, as owners retire or relocate. In the UK, though, independent retailers like my family, three of whom owned shops locally in the 50's and 60's, can no longer afford the exorbitant rents and rates
Business rates certainly killed Rochdale! My report czcams.com/video/DANHaC7VuXM/video.html
Surprisingly, councils, who set the rates, do accommodate rents that are affordable paradoxically to charity shops, which contradicts your assertion that rents are going up generally across the country.
Enjoyed this. Good video. Thanks.
Greetings from Chicago. I was in Paris in November of 2018. I had a great time just wandering the streets. I went to the Tour d'Eiffel and I saw the waiting line and decided it wasn't that big of a deal. From there I wandered over to the Hotel des Invalides.
Congrats on 100k mate. Been a subscriber to your channel since you had less than 5k. It's well deserved 👍
Oh buzzing well I’m glad you’ve stuck around 😃😃
You could come to Poland on a short trip, you don't have to spend much and Wizzair does cheap tickets. There you will see a different Europe to what you see in the West. Families out walking out everyday, kids, young ladies free to walk around without the fear of some weirdos bothering them. A country without mass immigration, just one culture and not a melting pot.
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lol come to Warsaw or Krakow and tell me that there isn't mass immigration, please. You have people there literally from all over the world, i hear more Russian and Ukrainian spoken on the streets than Polish sometimes. I literally just came back from Warsaw three days ago, i still go to see my family there all the time, so i'm telling you from experience.
Lol. Such fear mongering. I'm not even from France, let alone Paris. Visited Paris last year, it's just fine, far from the apocalyptic description that people (usually that has never visited the place) always say.
And pretty rich for Poland to talk about "mass immigration" when they themselves are a large immigrant population in western Europe.
Fight tooth and nail to keep it that way.
Agreed. The number of foreign language signs and foreign people in Paris has increased every year, and much of the quality and character of the lovely city has been lost. Tension and crime has gone through the roof. Everything has been going backwards. Mass immigration has degraded the city. Import the third world - become the third world. The French have shared their territory with needy foreigners through fear of being called racist. Forcing a nation to share its land is like forcing a family to share its land - either way it's just Marxism in disguise. The French don't want to share, and neither should they. The idea that everything and everywhere should be levelled out in the name of fairness and compassion is left wing nonsense. It just means that excellence like Paris, is degraded. No wonder Europe is moving to the right.
Look how clean the streets are.
The Olympics are coming!
Because the city authorities have the lorries come out EVERY MORNING and literally sluice the pavements down with high pressure jet hoses.
Congratulations for 100k. 🎉🎊
You're doing a great job. Thank you so much for your videos.
Seeing other cities from Europe would be very interesting.
Such a great video, as always!! If you'd ever come down to Italy, I'd be more than happy to be your tour guide in Torino. It's a great case study to look at how cities have changed in Europe, especially due to the passage from industry-based to service-based economy, and having lived in others European cities for years (Glasgow and Barcelona) my perspective on it has definitely changed. Cheers and congrats for the 100k, well deserved:)
bonjour! :D it's really nice to listen when you are just sharing your current thoughts out loud, without script or any plan.... that's always so interesting for listener!
Mild criticism alert. Please, please don't talk while you're eating/chewing. It's bad manners. Otherwise your candidness and enthusiasm is a pleasure to watch
I haven't been to Paris for many years but the center is nicer than London is now. However some of the arrondissements, suburbs of Paris is piss poor and left behind. London central is grubbier than Paris central.
It's because poor people are not allowed to live in central Paris. They have to live out beyond the Periphique in the bannlieus. They come in to work,or beg,or hang out in groups,it's not that poor people are legally barred from being in Paris (except during the Olympics) they are priced out in economic ways.
@@janebaker966 ...arriving in gangs at Les Halles for pickpocketing and dealing missions, creating a scene. Remember them well.
My daughter lives in Paris and I've just returned home after a week there. Paris is bursting with energy and it's full of independent shops which is refreshing. Prices in restaurants are very reasonable too for the average tourist. I agree re the zebra crossings though, those cyclists take no prisoners!! Thoroughly enjoyed your take and insights on the city.
love the direction this channel is going in
Unlike London, Paris didn't get bombed into ruins in WW2 so most of the lovely old people - friendly architecture remains.
Like your video by the way, and don't lose the Yorkshire outlook on things.
Before the allies got to Paris in WW2, the german general who'd been in charge was given the orders to blow up all the bridges and trash the city before it was liberated. He refused and so the city's beauty was saved.
London also wasn't bombed into ruins! 80% of the city remained intact! Learn history not propoganda!
German cities were bombed and don't look like urban shitholes
@@tommykarate9397 If you actually visit London though it feels like a city made of glass and metal, not the lovely brick facades you seen in Turnip's video here
@@cooolsimon282 That's called progress. Those apartments in Paris aren't great inside. The heating system is archaic, lifts (if any) with the metal cage bars... London has great architecture... Just as Paris. 😅
My two favourite cities are Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Amsterdam is good for culture and the vibe and the canals and is a fun place but Copenhagen is good largely because it is compact and on a more human scale than any other capital city and it is lively and interesting. I lived in London and worked in the city and its surroundings for years. I feel no incentive to visit nowadays except to see friends. Bournemouth where I live is in retail decline like a lot of South Coast towns.
Venice is way better than Amsterdam.
Copenhagen is no more human scale than Oslo, Helsinki, Dublin, Prague, Tallinn, Bratislava...plenty of other capitals actually
The UK is a depressing sh*t hole
Is it? 😂😂@@foureveralone
Great video, loved this. Congrats on 100K! Well desereved.
I think one of the things that surprises me is that, at least whilst you was there, there wasn't cars cars cars everywhere. It looks like its actually good to be a pedestrian there.
And realyl glad you enjoyed Nottingham :)
level of shop defense systems is incredible
*Whoo hoooo* Our Turnip's reached 100K subs! 🥂🍾🍻🎶🥳✊👏🤗
Look forward to this episode abroad.. been to Paris many times hunting the antique markets..
Big congrats on the silver plaque, David! 🎉
Well done on reaching 100k! So well deserved 🎉👏🍾🥂👌
Thanks so much
Another great video! I love Paris, so really enjoyed watching your cultural observations. Glad to see you’re getting about. Can’t wait for the next one :) thanks Turnip xx
Congratulations on the 100k subscribers!
Very interesting video ! I am Parisian born and bred, and Paris is a lovely place at time but noisy and dirty. What you have seen is pre-Olympic Games Paris, cleaned and improved, just a facade on a sunny day (lucky you !). Also as far as what you think were flats, just be aware that many are actually offices : GPs, attorneys, marketing companies, etc ;)
Have you any tips,where a first time visitor should stay,or should avoid,..Thank you.
@@johnlavery6116 Hi John. I usually recommend the Montparnasse area (the black tower you see in the video). It's not the most touristy but has excellent transport links through Paris and plenty of affordable restaurants. Best to avoid the area around and north of Gare du Nord. The Vincennes area (east of Paris) is also very safe and great with RER A direct connection to Disneyland if you plan to go there (avoid the Disneyland hotels which are VERY expensive).
Hello Carole...Thank you for your reply,that seems like pretty good advice. and I shall take it on board...Take care!
Hey ccongrats on your 100k subs , brilliant channel so interesting you deserve it!
Thank you so much 😀
I really enjoy your videos 😊
I live in the USA in Florida always wanted to visit 🇬🇧
Thank you for all the videos
Wow, love your channel. I always hoped you would do Paris. I was blown away when I first went. Charming and very well expressed as always👌👍
I stayed in Paris for three months last spring 2023. I must say it looks so clean in your video from my experience. I enjoy most large cities for a little time but I always long back to my house by a lake here in Sweden. I always preferred nature and animals and waking up to birds chirping early in the morning more than sirens. Thanks for the video.
Great video mate .A real eye opener.
I was in Paris in January and noticed quite a few vacant shops. Driving back to Calais, we took a diversion and came across the biggest Amazon Warehouse I’ve ever seen. Great video.
100k I knew you would even back at day one first couple of videos looking at chimneys and walls..
buzzing for you I’ve been checking on the numbers going up from day one been exciting chuffed for you mate well done 👍🏼
Loving the bags and jacket combo 😂 actually does look good
Ah thanks so much pal, really appreciate that. Lots more to come hopefully 😃😃😃
Dude. I reckon you’ll be 250 by the end of the year. And 500k subs next year! Keep up the good work
I love the Idea of all those apartments, people living above the stores. Very Cool.
Long time watcher here- nice to see your first episode outside the UK! I actually first started watching your videos because I grew up in West Yorkshire. I haven't lived in the UK for over a decade but it's nice to hear the accent and I do enjoy your Made in Britain series and Death of the High Street- I think they compliment each other well. I enjoy learning about the old industries- and share your love of old mill chimneys.
I'd just like to add that I love Eleanor's fashion sense- actually before you introduced her I was wondering who the pretty and stylish French girl was in the background...
Congratulations on the 100k subs mate!! Do a walsall vid :p
Congratulations on reaching your first 100k Subscribers 🥂🍾🏅
Watching you from Paris 😃
I really enjoy your videos. You always present an honest and interesting video and your style is engaging and entertaining! Well done! Please keep going!
Great video, looing forward to getting to Paris one day.
Good content,you should do more of the major cities in western Europe to compare the retail situation.
Great City exploration again Wandering Turnip!!!!❤❤❤
Thanks @wanderingturnip for this video ! About the retail crisis in France I think you should go to other cities such as Lyon, Lille, Nantes or Toulouse, even town like Chartres or Orleans. Because these smaller cities have more closed/To let ("à louer") retail facilities than Paris, despite the housing being more affordable.
Great video mate 👍
It's been nearly twenty years since I was in Paris. There is noticably fewer people on the streets which now seem to be mostly pedestrianised. Cars used to be chocka and there was life and buzz on the streets. Little Citroens everywhere! The big question though, was the cheese really aged?
I love your stuff, no bullshit or silly music, just good honest facts, what you see is how it is, keep up the top work David 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Paris is a beautiful place to visit. Great culture, food and architecture.
Good video. Congrats on your 100000 subscribers 👍
Congratulations 100k you deserve it first time on your channel keep up good work 🎉
Ah thanks so much 😃😃😃
A great video..and off to Paris in just over a months time (p.s love your channel name).
I loved your enthusiasm about the double decker trains. 😅 We got them in Hungary now as well, and they are awesome.
Thanks David great stuff, refreshing Navet
Some districts just outside the central areas of Paris like Saint Denis, Aubervillers and Bobigny are very deprived and contain a lot of boarded and closed businesses but it seems its even happening in the arrondissements of Central Paris as well as some of the banlieus.
I've been in England for the last 25 years... I still don't understand why English people love to portrait England as the cespit of Europe. I'm not impressed with how our host somewhat makes it looks like Paris is better than London... You won't see a french trashing their own culture... Even if it's not very brilliant 😂
Never mind the shops and the tower, I want to see more of Eleanore! She's so cute!
Yeah the Turnip didn't do a proper introduction to the mystery lady 🙄
As a Brit living in Paris it was fascinating to watch your reaction to it. The street with a lot of closed shops (Rue de Clery) is in the garment district & most of the shops are clothes wholesalers. I don't know why so many have closed but it's not a typical shopping area.
The big church tower in a mini park is next to Paris's equivalent to Oxford Street and there have been a few big dept store closures, such as C&A (which used to be in the UK until the 1990s). They've dropped from 4 to 2 branches in the city.
There are a lot of bookshops because the Fr govt still regulates prices, creating a more level playing field. In Britain that was done away with, again in the 90s, so now we only have Waterstones. The bookstalls along the Seine have been there for 100s of years & are a tourist attraction as well as bookstalls.
You were quite right about the upper floor apartments, but those buildings were built in the 19th century deliberately to house people above shops & businesses. There is so much wasted potential in British city centres. Paris's city council has done a huge amount of work in the last few years to create cycle lanes and green the city with more trees and neighbourhood gardens and planters. The CGT is one of the big trade unions.
From what I've seen in other parts of France, local high streets are generally in better shape than the UK. This is largely because they have a much more equal mix of chain stores & independent shops. Not just food, but clothes, homewares etc. So even if a chain fails (& several have esp. since Covid) it doesn't have the same impact. The worst thing to happen in Britain was the collapse of Arcadia, which took with it half a dozen separate chainstores.
Secret to visiting the Eiffel Tower or any famous monument anywhere: book online in advance & skip the line 😊
If you've gone international, you should come to New York, you'll find a number of newly vacant retail spaces here since covid.
That CZcams money is starting to kick in now mate. Well done, u definitely deserve it. Keep up the good work. Huddersfield
Hi Great video I'm planning on visiting Paris France very soon, I can't wait to Go on the Eiffel tower again and chill out at the Bar on the lower section and eat French food 😊
Interesting to see your take on Paris (and sorry to hear your Eiffel Tower experience was underwhelming). I could be wrong, but I got a sort of Monday feeling about some of the streets you visited (Monday being the day many shopkeepers shutter their stores and take the day off). I see the CGT also caught your attention, along with the bouquinistes along the Seine (historic book stalls, those, so much so that they get subsidies from the city but in return they have to keep selling books instead of giving themselves entirely over to tourist tat... .so they remain very picturesque!). Next time you're over I'll show some other shopping areas -- ones doing well, doing badly and in between....
Congrats on getting to 100k subs! I gotta say, central Paris does look better on the surface than it did a few years ago but I wonder if that's just going to be temporary until the Olympics has been and gone.
It's a very different story when you head out to the banlieues. Actually, just avoid those areas even if you speak fluent French.
Haha! Your donner pizza analogy was bang on. I had similar experience from going up the citadel tower in Cairo
What I noticed about Paris is that it is very much a lived-in city even in the centre. In London, you're priced completely out of central and everyone is out in zones 2-6. In Paris, even the most central streets have families living in them.
Zones 1 & 2 are also being overrun with Air bnbs, which is killing off the smaller shops and local facilities, and affecting school enrollment too...
More than happy to show you around Douglas, if you ever visit the Isle of Man.
Glad to see that you've been into O'CD rue Pierre Lescot, I enjoy this Cd/Dvd/Vinyl shop when I am in Paris. Your videos in Nottingham were also interesting, I used to live in Beeston during my Erasmus year in 2019 and I think it is sad that George Center is now closed
Yes bro explore !!!
Would love to see you in my favorite city of Norwich sometime!
Alot of changes in the city recently and starting to see a slightly scary decline in independent trade which is what makes Norwich so great.
I like double decker trains too 😎 Earlier this year I went on a couple of these trains in Sydney NSW 🇦🇺
I think the fact that alot of europe are happy to live in the center of towns and cities in a real community helps them alot. Flat/ apartment culture is just a lot more prominent and is actually a lot more functional. Where as the UK has taken an American aproach to property ownership believing suburbs (houses) are better (they're not) and living/ owning a flat is a step down. It also leads to overuse of personal vehicles that shouldn't be needed if you could actually just live a short walk away from everything you would need.
Some people hate to live in town's and cities, I'm one of them
Some love their garden's, and don't want to live on top of each other. Others love the freedom their own transport gives them. The British have always preferred house's and privacy to flat's. They prefer less crime too .
Nothing like owning your own house or condo. Way better than renting.
Everywhere used to be a 15 minuite city, there used to be nothing but 15 minuites cities. Before cars and supermarkets centeralised everything every tiny little village had a shoemaker, a hatmaker, a butcher, a fishmongers. The idea behind 15 minuites cities is not some anti-car left wing idea - It's about conserving traditional ways of living @joanmatchett8100
@@mark8337 Love renting. Dont have to pay for repairs, can up and move to a new country or place without very much hassle.
@@joanmatchett8100the British are unique in the fact they have a garden culture , not just food, but flowers too.
It is because they were imitating the country house gardens .
This isn’t found anywhere else.
Also “an Englishman’s home is his castle” is a popular term used , but not elsewhere .
Renting an apartment is a European thing .
The British like freedom to drive also, maybe as the country is so small compared with European ones.
Some shops are closed not because they're vacant but because that's their closing day.
Thanks for tour come to New York City the rents are eye watering makes London seem cheap!That protest was wild!
That’s interesting. In the English town where I live, they have been regenerating our previously pitiful high street by converting former office space into apartments. It’s still fairly quiet at night though, due to the new residents not appreciating noisy venues at night, but the high street seems more lived in now.
Perhaps, a similar scheme might save other high streets/cities?
Congrats on 100k
Great job
Yes that Nottingham video was fun. You need a third visit that is focussed on the excellent pubs in the area. The monolithic black tower you saw from the Eiffel Tower is the Tour Montparnasse. I used to work around there and the area is actually quite nice. It's often said that the best views in Paris are from the Tour Montparnasse - because they do not feature the Tour Montparnasse. The thing that bugs me most is that it doesn't line up with the grid of the street plan and is slightly off-centre. It really affects my OCD.
Great vid - I like you coming over the channel to check out things in other European countries. As others said, this def has a Monday vibe when a lot of shops are closed for the day. Living in Brussels here, but I think Paris is doing really well retail wise... you should go see the French towns though. You have these huge American style retail centres or 'zones commerciales', with the huge French supermarkets: Carrefour, Intermarche etc.
Literally on the edge of the town with the town centre totally dead, with only the butcher and boulangerie seemingly doing ok. The contrast is mad, and even worse than the UK (in my opinion).