@XiXiDu And looking at France, while those other places I mentioned seemed fine (some places I visited over 10 years ago), there is a cautionary tale of the risks of porous borders and lenient asylum/immigration policies
@XiXiDu No such issues in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin some places were sketchy, but mostly it was cool, Rome was fine, as the many other Italian cities I visited. With regards to this debate on 3rd world people taking over, I think it's exaggerated apart from France
@XiXiDu I honestly think France has a huge problem with a large and growing part of its population that doesn't identify with the mainstream culture and is antagonistic to it
It's a well-observed feature of every genocide through history that victims were extremely upset at being denied the opportunity to work for people trying to murder them.
@Babygravy9 My wife is an English teacher, with an Oxford English degree. She reads A LOT. We have a running joke that I pick up the current book she's reading and whether it lives up to the absurd hyperbole on the cover? "Is it endearingly meticulous?" "Are you feverishly frozen in time?"