and in a mountainous area instead of in a plain, and with a completely different climate, and on an ocean with a bay instead of being inland, and without any significant wars having been fought near it.
if the US hadn't gotten california ceded to it from mexico, i'm sure a bloody battle would have occurred eventually. but isn't that the biggest knock against american history -- that there isn't enough of it to compare with europe? hence my comment of "2000+ years". i still think the two cities are pretty similar in other respects, especially after wandering the streets of paris for the last week.
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paris is a lot like san francisco with 2000+ years of history behind it....
- 23/03/2011 11:43:15 PM
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Um... Paris constrains the river Seine, not the other way around. 
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- 24/03/2011 12:41:01 AM
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- 24/03/2011 12:41:01 AM
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i'm trying to make a lame analogy here, stop using logic to refute it *NM*
- 24/03/2011 11:45:01 AM
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- 24/03/2011 11:45:01 AM
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And no fault line running under it, and without a river
- 24/03/2011 12:43:32 AM
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geology/geography aside....
- 24/03/2011 11:51:13 AM
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Most of what you wrote about could apply to NYC.
- 24/03/2011 01:11:05 PM
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Homeless people shit on the streets in San Francisco? Everywhere?
- 24/03/2011 02:19:54 AM
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not everywhere, but about as often as dogs shit on the streets of paris
- 24/03/2011 11:44:30 AM
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Apparently it has less people and activity and is thus less imposing, too.
- 24/03/2011 12:14:41 PM
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Re: Apparently it has less people and activity and is thus less imposing, too.
- 24/03/2011 10:51:38 PM
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Sounds like you encountered a university professor moonlighting as a bum.
- 24/03/2011 09:27:21 PM
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So the homeless of Paris speak 4 languages more than the well educated French? *NM*
- 25/03/2011 10:07:45 AM
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- 25/03/2011 10:07:45 AM
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