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by selfmodruntime 1172 days ago
I also lived in Paris. What Americans get from their media as "no go zones" are areas with a large population of African immigrants or poor people. Yea, they are sketchy at night and I wouldn't go there alone if I was a woman, but it's nothing like sketchy areas I've seen or heard of in Chicago or SF.
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>and I wouldn't go there alone if I was a woman

When an area rules out half the demographic then there's no way to sugarcoat it.

> Yea, they are sketchy at night and I wouldn't go there alone if I was a woman,

So they are no-go zones. I'm glad you've cleared this up. I can now tell my liberal friends that a Parisian has confirmed the existence of such and it isn't just American conservatives telling lies.

There are zones like this i very city though?

Maybe start to subscribe to the bipartisan view that being a woman alone at night generally sucks.