[jackjeff]

First the 15mins walk thing is probably already true in most district in Paris. But what you do not realize is that only a tiny minority of privileged people can actually afford to live in Paris. It's a bit like if the right of vote was restricted to people with high income.

Paris is TINY. Paris is SMALLER than the borough of Brooklyn in NYC.

Paris is 3x smaller than just the inner boroughs of London and 16x smaller than London.

The Paris business district (La Défense) is actually located OUTSIDE Paris. The business district spreads across 4 different municipalities!

Even if Paris fused with all the neighboring counties (92, 93 and 94) it would still be smaller than London.

Because of political concerns any project that would benefit commuters just takes forever.

[hk__2]

> But what you do not realize is that only a tiny minority of privileged people can actually afford to live in Paris. It's a bit like if the right of vote was restricted to people with high income.

This not even a bit like that. The right to vote is restricted to the people who live there, whether they are rich or poor. Also, it’s far from a minority: with 2M+ inhabitants, that’s the largest city in France: 2x Marseille, 4x Lyon, it has the same population as the four next most populated cities (Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, and Nice) combined. If e.g. the 11th arrondissement would be a city it‘d be in the top 10 in France by population.