I've forgotten half of what I wanted to say, from an op ed perspective, on my visit. Three things stand out.
1. Everyone is either slim or normal body type. I think I saw 3 fat people during my entire trip. Three. 3.
2. Paris is safe. How safe? On 2 occasions I saw mom's strollering along with a 4-6 year old trailing along. There were times when the kids would stop and look at something, the mom now 20 feet away, she'd stop, call out and the child would come running. In the U.S., child protective services would be at their homes that night to collect the children. I didn't see many kids during my trip but they all seemed well-mannered when out and about. There was a boisterous group of, I'm guessing, 6th graders, led by a teacher, even they were together, in a group, again, all well-mannered.
3. Paris is safe. I passed by this stack of ramps at 5ish one night. Here they are at midnight. You'd have to be in northwestern Minnesota for that to happen here.
