Paris - une déception absolue Things in Paris that shocked and scandalize me 1. The climat. It rains very often in Paris. There is no winter like in the central zone of Russia with snow and frost. It seems autumn lasts eternally. 2. The heating. It is very cold in winter inside of buildings and houses in France. The heating starts only at the end of October or later. My husband works in a big famous company. Last winter it was 15 degrees inside. C'est bien l'Europe. 3. The transport. There are all sorts of transport in Paris: trains, the underground, buses, tramways, RER. There are problems with public transport regularly. The reasons are accidents and strikes. Trains are often cancelled. In summer the big part of transport are annulled. 4. The medicine. If you want to go to the doctor you should be ready to wait two weeks at least. They need to wait your visit from 2 weeks to one month in middle. One day I called at a clinic to take an appointment with a doctor. It was in March.They asked me if I wanted to have an appointment before or after September. Incredible!!! They say the medicine in Russia is very bad. I see in France the quality of the medicine isn't really higher. Il laisse à désirer. 5. The bureaucracy is terrible. To get an official paper you need months and months. It is very typical they lost your papers. 6. Pay attention at the police control if you are a foreigner (not from Schengen Area) and you enter in France. Stamps the police make in your passport can be almost invisible. One day I made attention the stamp in my passport wasn't visible. I asked the police to make better because I am not a bird to fly without pass control. The police answered that it was impossible because there was no colour in their press. 7. Houses' facades Paris is beautiful. You can see a real white city when you are at the top of Eiffel Tower. It is fantastic. However, houses often look like similar. They are white yellow or white grey. Their stile remind Middle Ages. 7. There are a lot of migrants. No comments because it is a very painful question nowdays. I am not contre migrants, but some of them behave unacceptably. 8. They can't discuss some things. If someone wants to speak about some social problems or name things by their real names there is no discussion because you are a fascist. However, it is the same all over in Europe. However, Paris is a great city for tourists. There are lots historical places and seesightings to visit. But live here - it isn't very exciting.