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First off, we're not *that* mean!
Note how the shower is located right next to the kitchen space, which only includes two burner plates, a mini fridge, and a sink (where you probably also have to brush your teeth). I'm assuming the bathroom is in the hallway and you have to share it with several other renters — which is fairly common for chambres de bonne.
Maybe it's because I just spent 40 minutes in a packed metro, sweating under my mask, to come home to a tiny apartment where I can hear my neighbor screaming at her toddler through the paper-thin walls, but I'm not feeling the love, romance, light, and beauty right now.
Our power system is equipped to handle all sorts of equipment.
No company I know of starts work at 10:30 a.m. Most French workdays start at 8:30 or 9 a.m. and end around 7 p.m. (We do have real lunch breaks, though, and more paid time off than in the US.)
Most buildings in Paris aren't even 200 years old, and believe it or not, we've updated a few things throughout the years. We even have drinking water coming out of those pipes!
But I gotta admire this show's chutzpah.
If Emily wants people to be kind to her, maybe she should learn a little about local customs and basic manners. If you come into a store, don't bother to say "Bonjour," and start talking in English right away, people might not take it super well. It wouldn't cross my mind, for instance, to go into an office or a bakery in the US, start speaking French, and lecture people on how we do it back home, expecting them to engage.
At least, not to your face. That's just cruel.
I don't know why they decided to make a hag out of every mature Frenchwoman on the show, but it really got on my nerves. I shouldn't even have to write this, but Frenchwomen, no matter their age, aren't all mean, jealous, and anti-feminist.
I can't believe this show is making me do a #NotAllMen take, but its obsession with the creepy-French-lover cliché got pretty weird and uncomfortable.
They aren't laid out as a grid — they're the result of thousands of years of history. Maybe Emily shouldn't go around the world expecting things to be organized for her convenience and according to her rules? (Sorry, I'm getting kind of salty here, and you're probably thinking that French people really are as mean in reality as they are in the show. And maybe we actually are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
I just want to make this clear, because I've seen many Americans on Instagram wearing one during their Euro trip: This is not how you fit in or look like a local. Quite the opposite, actually.
I know Emily's knowledge of Normandy is limited to Saving Private Ryan, but it's only a couple of hours away from Paris (and it's really lovely). Why are they all pretending like they're never going to see Gabriel ever again once he moves there?
Just saying.
Naked model or not.
It's just an overpriced tourist trap.
We're surrounded by burger spots. You could eat a burger every day for a year in Paris and never have to get it twice from the same place.
I imagine I'm not sophisticated enough.
If a Frenchman ever tells you this, it is not normal or sweet or sexy — it's just gross and you should run away. (And we do shower!)
The show is a catalog of clichés about French people's relationship with sex. Apparently our men never get tired of having sex and everyone has a (married) lover — and the wife knows and approves??
You know, just your average French mom worrying about her 17-year-old son's skills in bed!
Wut?? Yeah, the French hid when bombs were falling during World War II. AS ANYONE SHOULD when bombs are falling on them.
Giving out backhanded compliments to perfectly nice people and [SPOILER ALERT] sleeping with both the brother AND the boyfriend of the one French girl who's super friendly to her!