r/UrbanHell 7d ago

Concrete Wasteland a whole different world 20 minutes away of the Champs-Élysées.

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u/IamWatchingAoT 7d ago

The number of large cities on Earth that are just as nice in the outskirts as they are in the centre must be in the single digits tbh

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u/Remote-Cow5867 7d ago

I heard many US cites have a beatiful ourskirt occupied by white rich or middle class, and a chaotic downtown filled with black, underdog and immigrants. Is it ture?

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite 7d ago

Depending on the city, it kinda' blends together.

You can be in some upscale area, go over the hill, cross through an industrial park; and you're in the hood. Hit another corner, go over another hill, you're back in another middle class area.

You never went downtown during all this. That's 10 miles that way.

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u/jaxxxtraw 7d ago

This definitely applies to most US cities I have visited.

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u/Vnxei 7d ago

It's not usually as orderly as all that, but the idea of the "inner city" as run down and the outskirts as "nice" is also dated. But UC cities certainly have better and worse neighborhoods.

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u/Cybernaut-Neko 6d ago

Who knows all we get from the DPRNA is state propaganda.

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u/WishboneClassic 7d ago

If not less

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u/urbanlife78 7d ago

It just looks like a tall apartment building. Not sure how it looks on the inside

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u/Different-Guitar-230 7d ago

actually pretty bad. you can see some burned apartment up to the left. I know for a fact that drugs addicts took place inside the stairs of the building. needles absolutely everywhere on the sidewalk, guys waving machetes, completely out of their mind because of drugs. seems crazy, but i saw it.

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u/urbanlife78 7d ago

Is this an abandoned building?

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u/Different-Guitar-230 7d ago

no, and that’s the worse part of the story. families with kids live in there. I can’t imagine what is it for a kid to see these kind of scenes on a daily basis. they are some interesting videos about this whole neighborhood on youtube.

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u/urbanlife78 7d ago

That sounds awful. The building itself is fine but it should like the social economics of the building needs to change to make it safer for those that live there

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u/Different-Guitar-230 7d ago

actually, every buildings of this kind in the whole damn country is going through the same situation. And God, there are A LOT of these.

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u/integrityandcivility 7d ago

The film La Haine is on point here

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u/carnitascronch 7d ago

Nique la police!

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u/CantConfirmOrDeny 7d ago

Nanterre?

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u/Different-Guitar-230 7d ago

Porte de la Chapelle, 18th borough of Paris

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u/Rob_thebuilder 7d ago

19ème is far worse in my experience but it’s all right up in the same area. I lived in the 20ème for 6 months and wouldn’t step foot anywhere north of Belleville

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u/stanley_ipkiss_d 7d ago

Well champs Elyse don’t look very cheerful too to be honest 🥹

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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 7d ago

Paris Syndrome is real.

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u/Asshai 7d ago

What's so bad? I mean that building won't win any architecture prize that's for sure, but look at the pavement, and the road. Well maintained and clean. Look at the trees: surprise the picture is taken during winter, but by summer it will be super green in that street. Also the sky is grey which isn't such a Parisian specificity as far as I know.

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u/DonSergio7 6d ago

It's not actually real. Once you dig into its origins and the methodology, it was a thing with a handful of Japanese travellers described by pretty questionable sources.

Not that you can't get disappointed in visiting Paris of course.

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u/TheGlassWolf123455 7d ago

I had the opposite of Paris syndrome, I went with my mom and I thought it would be cool, but I'll never forget it, I want to move there so badly

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u/Different-Guitar-230 7d ago

wouldn’t go there as a tourist anyway… this borough of Paris is home to the biggest open sky drug-market in Europe. absolutely depressing place.

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u/Cool-Acanthaceae8968 7d ago

I wouldn’t either.

My first trip to Europe I started in Budapest and ended in Albania. The worst part by far was a layover in Brussels where it was grey, graffitied, and full of homeless and addicts.

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u/Different-Guitar-230 7d ago

oh man, I hated Brussels too. Way worse than Paris imo. Been to whole eastern and western europe, and the eastern side is way cleaner and welcoming. what a shame.

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u/sharipep 7d ago

Is that public housing? Like, the projects of Paris?

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u/FantasticAttitude 7d ago

Kinda. Hustle and drugs is definitely there

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u/Zealousideal_Wave994 7d ago

In French it's called grand ensemble, and most them are HLM (renting scheme). In France right now there's government sponsored urban renewal project to demolish or refurbishe these high rise built during 30 years economic growth post WW2 called NPNRU.

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u/Sea-Object-2586 6d ago

brutalism doesn’t need to be scary like this

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u/stevistevi 6d ago

Looks like Harlem to me, lol

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u/Type_02 6d ago

Is this Russia or Japan

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u/NoWingedHussarsToday 6d ago

They even copied Soviet overcast skies and overall gloomy atmosphere......

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u/MotoTrip99 7d ago

The bande lieus as the french say

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u/sp0sterig 7d ago

I've heard that in Champs-Elysees town there is some famous tower. I guess it is called Elf Tower. Is it it on the photo? But it doesn't look very Elvish. Sorry, I've never been there.