EVERY single person I meet says Paris is an abject shithole. When I went there, it was during the bin strikes, and the whole place smelt of rotting fish.

Why the fuck does it have such a reputation? It's overpriced, isn't French in any sense of the word, smelly, dangerous, and is mogged by every single other European city.

I don't get it.

The recent Kurt Caz video shows just how bad things are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBWtam27j8