this is me realizing i just got robbed

at the louvre i'm out oh man this is

also me discovering another side of

paris a side that doesn't always get the

landline so

i am currently standing

around

tens of thousands of human bones

and skulls i can't even believe i'm

saying this right now the site of paris

that you don't necessarily see in the

movies every aspect about this place is

romanticized down to the freaking rats

come on remy you're adorable i've spent

so much of the last

few years

eating walking dreaming of paris

and so today i want to answer the

question is this place overrated

and to do that i'm going to show a

friend at some of my favorite places in

the city

so i'm just waiting for him in a cafe

right now i got some scrambled eggs

ah they're so good i love this spot so

much this is in momakh

the 18th alan dismal the one and only

i walked up a lot of stairs

the metro you know what i'm talking

about yeah i do i do i did that on

purpose man

sorry but look at the view behind you

man this is insane this is great this is

a good spot there is no getting around

the romanticization of this place i am

guilty of it too i

love this country uh i love france and i

have been public about that this whole

area

is super nice at night when people are

out drinking there's usually people you

know somebody playing some music

typical french accordion yes i mean it's

touristy but not overly you know like

look how chill it is right now that's

true

we're the ones that are being touristy

that being said i do think a lot of this

romanticization comes at a very high

cost it is so bad in fact that it has

caused people physical illness i'm not

making this up okay check this out this

is insane it's called paris syndrome

that's the term used to describe a

person suffering from very real physical

or psychological symptoms of illness

caused by the disappointment of getting

here to paris some of the symptoms

include confusion dizziness anxiety or

in worst cases depersonalization acute

delusional states hallucinations

fainting and vomiting believe it or not

paris syndrome is huge in japan where

like in many places around the world

paris is idealized i'm not laughing

about this like i think it's a very real

thing i think i'm just laughing about

the fact that like here i am

japanese people must think i'm insane

for voluntarily choosing to live here i

need a six word sentence about paris in

three

two

one

i think paris has a lot of things to

offer and i think

so do you see my dilemma here um on one

hand i feel enthusiastic about this

place i'm an enthusiastic person in

general and on the other i feel like i'm

contributing to a problem contributing

to this delusion this false ideal

so

what i'm going to try and do in this

video is offer a nuanced view there are

definitely things i dislike about this

place and i think you should know take

it or leave it

let's dive right in

i went on a date in this like right here

when i'm like back in these spots i feel

warm i'm like oh yeah you know even

though that date went horribly did it go

bad it didn't go well it did not go well

yeah

i'm sorry yeah it was weird we it was

like we were having two different

conversations the whole time weird you

know when that happens yeah

and this spot

yeah in this spot i know it's like

you're like this is romantically perfect

i feel badly in this spot well she was

like really into

astrology okay

i apologize to all astrologers out there

if i offended you in any shape or form

i'm just being a snarky libra

this is a very expensive city and

obviously i knew that before coming here

i don't think this comes as a surprise

to anybody but you know you feel that

it's a little bit you know ah

you know when you see the prices six

euro coffees somebody please explain

that to me and i'm getting punished for

ordering oat milk which is a euro and 50

on top of the cost of the coffee just so

i can avoid gastrointestinal problems

really i'm doing everybody a favor here

and the cost obviously extends to pretty

much everything i filmed portions of

this video a few months ago in my old

apartment which i no longer have and now

i'm trying to survive with temporary

solutions like airbnbs while i search

for a new spot to live and it's killing

me i'm spending an ungodly amount of

money for a space that's barely big

enough for me to walk in right there

you're looking at most of the apartment

i'm not even going to dive into the

details of what it's like to search for

an apartment here it is so ridiculous

how hard we're all fighting each other

for 150 square feet

so this complaint is not unique to paris

okay i'm mindful of that but still there

is always construction work going on you

know what let me film this not in front

of construction work even like right now

it's happening

in the apartment right next door or

above or i don't even know where it's

coming from

literally about to start recording

and of course it started up again

i'm gonna have to wait now i guess

[Music]

what is with the customer service here

they're angry at you before you've even

said anything before i've even opened my

mouth and of course this is a separate

issue but uh if you ever forget to start

with bonjour hello uh it's game over you

might as well have spit on their

ancestors i mean

le monk de keem

the air conditioning situation here is

rough which is to say that there is none

and it wouldn't be such a big deal if it

weren't for the fact that summers get

pretty hot here and elevators are

semi-rare so if you live on a high floor

like the fifth floor as i did for a year

and a half it's a little hike up to your

apartment

you are not making it up to the fifth

floor without being completely out of

breath

and that's not all though they are

beautiful the roofs are made of metal so

it turns your apartment into an oven and

you are suddenly slow cooking like a

buffalo it's kind of a tricky one i

don't really have an answer to this

problem because i think north americans

completely overdo it with air

conditioning that's for sure the way

that many parisians combat this is by

closing the shutters during the day so

that the light doesn't come in so the

heat doesn't you know your apartment

doesn't heat up but the problem is that

if you stay at home then you're spending

the whole day in the dark like it

doesn't make sense at all the solution

is just get used to sweating a lot

because that's what happens here i am

sweating so much right now because it is

so hot in my apartment this obstacle

bureaucratic french bureaucracy is a

nightmare that is worse even than i can

describe to you i will say this getting

a phone number was a piece of cake uh i

got a sim card with free mobile

incredibly cheap 20 euros a month i get

a hundred gigs and can call

internationally it's incredible and that

took me one day that aside everything

else has been an uphill battle

just getting a bank account took years

off my life i had to try with like five

different banks the only way i was

actually even able to get it in my

opinion is that i went in with a friend

who already had a bank account at that

bank because i think if not for that

nobody would ever give it to me and they

would never say it to my face either you

know they just string you along

[Music]

construction work

so i'm looking more and more like a

parisian hipster

by the day this situation here is the

aftermath of the einstein video anyway i

am going to dive into the things that i

actually do like about living here

because there are things that i do like

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on to the pros i think after the list

that i just gave you of all of my

complaints about living in paris you

might go

okay then why live there you know it

sounds insane how does any of this make

any sense and my answer to that is that

the things that this city does it does

spectacularly so i think your experience

is very much shaped by how much you

align with those things it's a cool

place to know dude like

to have this be a place that you

know the streets you know where to go

yeah you understand the culture you

speak the language also just notice i

mean bro it is like almost november yeah

but look where we are this it's not

flooded with tourists there are pockets

that are touristy yeah but what i'm

saying is

it is possible to escape the tourism

in the city it definitely is possible

the food in this country is unbeatable

honestly i think italians eat extremely

well as well so

you know maybe i mean i don't know i'm

probably saying something very

controversial here i'd say maybe on the

same level

this is so goddamn good

i love

i love love love love love the food here

it's such a joy i'm always excited to

eat in france and i think part of it is

because they have a good sense of good

ingredients so good ingredients you

can't you can't screw up you know right

oh man

the cheese is insanity one of the

consequences of eating cheese is that

you just can't shut up about

it this is anecdotal okay but in my

experience it is so it has been so much

harder to find good food in the united

states i'm not saying it doesn't exist

it just feels like there's less of a

culture for food and also like the

consumption of food you know sitting

around and talking and being at the

table for hours that's not a thing that

i think americans naturally do the bread

here

it's not we shouldn't even be using the

same word like bread here is

unbelievable

so uh important to note here

that right there over there

is an island

wait that's an island yeah honestly i

can't step outside without being blown

away and this is still happening

years into living here like this city

really is probably the most beautiful

major city i think i've ever been to

probably another controversial statement

but

i just love it i just love it it feels

like a hundred small towns smashed

together and so you can walk through the

city 100 times and see something

different every single time so this is

the square

gala

really love this spa it's a great picnic

spot

there's like so few people here i love

this spot so much

i really really love it it's so peaceful

we're here exploring

and i just love the name of this street

it's the blue dusha ducha

it's the the cat that fishes

and it's just a tiny little alleyway

right here

well gotta love it

i would definitely describe a large

portion of my time here as unusual in

that i lived here through the pandemic

and so i got to see this place without

tourists wow let me tell you that was

amazing that was incredible to be in the

18th only small

you know

like visiting these places

and not having tourists it's it was

insane

but even then even now as things have

picked up a lot i don't find it

difficult to escape the tourists and

that was something that i was very

afraid of before moving here in

montalita unique one thing i really like

about paris is that it definitely

doesn't try to be anything else it is

its own thing this place has a

distinctly non north oh my god

this pla oh god

i can tell that there's a big difference

here between this place and like a north

american mindset and for me this is a

huge pro that was one of the reasons

that i left people take weekends here

they don't work on sundays you know it

feels like a healthier balance in august

which is right now i'm recording this at

the end of august the city is a ghost

town and most people leave because

they're off on vacation i love this

different rhythm i also really like new

york honestly but it goes at a speed

that just does not feel sustainable and

i know a lot of french people might go

like wow really you know you're calling

paris healthier you know because for a

lot of french people this is like the

craziest place in france but even then

yeah it's a big city a lot happens here

but still

it just feels like a more manageable

balance

there are a lot of great people here

i've met some super cool artists

that is not a stereotype you know this

definitely still feels like a cultural

center i don't entirely agree with the

angry parisian stereotype there

definitely are angry parisians

but i haven't had to deal with all too

many um i think maybe partially that is

helped by the fact that i speak french

but also i think it's helped by the fact

that there are actually french people

from all over the country here in paris

as well as people from all over the

world which kind of leads me to my next

point which is

i did just complain about the fact that

it gets really hot here and there's no

air conditioning in the city but that

being said in spring and in summer the

days get really long it's light out

until after 10 and that is honestly

wonderful

i love it so much i think i forgot to

touch on the museums and the the

activities that you can do here which is

also an awesome point so let me just add

that

right in at the end

what do we make of this pros and cons

list

i don't know if this is exhaustive i try

to do my best to brainstorm all of these

different points and try to make this as

balanced as possible obviously this is

entirely subjective right these are just

my opinions i think this was ultimately

an excuse for me to just make a list of

things that i like and dislike and share

them with the world but and this is an

important point i think you could make a

perfectly exhaustive list of pros and

cons and still be missing something when

evaluating a place the feeling i feel

like and there is something

else about paris that

i haven't yet shared that is extremely

hard to put into words it's not entirely

a place that lives in reality

its mere existence puts people in kind

of a weird romantic mood and of course i

think it's partially because of this

mysticism that so many people are

disappointed by the city but even then

you know i love that this is a place

that makes me dream i love that a place

like this exists and when i say that i

mean everything that comes with it the

good and the bad because there are

definitely disappointing things about

this place it is dirty you know things

don't operate well necessarily my point

is that there's just something about

this city and paris happens to be that

city that i feel like i fit into that i

kind of belong to at least right now and

that place could be a totally different

place for you and so we go back to the

ultimate question here right which is is

paris overrated and my answer to that is

not in my opinion or rather i should say

not for me at least i think it's all

about expectations and what you're

looking for no place is perfect after

all it looks like a

sparkling apple juice is that what it is

you see

what is it oh cider yeah

is it alcoholic yeah

cheers it was great exploring it was

that was good

my

final um consensus is i don't think

paris is over is that the question is

overrated kind of yeah no i don't think

it is overrated i think there's a reason

why paris is paris

and

i do like it

mission accomplished your enthusiasm

is what

is contagious to me

nothing left to say here be enthusiastic

about your life and it'll get other

people enthusiastic

okay i'm expecting a lot of differing

opinions in the comments section i would

love to hear your thoughts do you agree

with me do you not i mean this is all

subjective i wanted to briefly just come

back to the class that i mentioned

earlier on in this video before i end

this video just to let you guys know

that it's out now on right trip it is

basically a visual history of paris like

i said i was robbed while making it uh

but it still feels worth it because the

result is amazing and it's really thanks

to the bright trip team who helped me

with research uh shooting this and also

with the post-production and if you're

interested i'll leave a link in the

description below thank you guys so much

for watching and i'll see you soon