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Message from: Edward S. B
About: Personne qui dit bonjour
Mon, 27 Oct 97 09:02:20 EST
In my hometown (~150,000
people), near Dallas, Texas, there are very few homeless people,
not much crime, and quite a lot of community activity. To put
the size of the city in perspective, you are never more than five
minutes from an elementary school (by walking). People talk to
one another all the time, in supermarkets, post offices, on the
street, etc.
But that would be very unlikely in a large city. On the West
Coast, for example, it took four years for tourism in southern
California to recover after the Los Angeles "race riots".
In Paris, I found people universally unassuming in their appearance
and action. America is more into extremes, it seems.
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