French Crossroads: The Incredible Shrinking Paris
About 120,000 locals have fled for greener pastures over the past decade.
Paris might be one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, but living here is a whole other story. Life in Paris can be brutal and expensive, so much so that the city has seen its population decline by 122,919 over the past decade.
In a 6-part series dubbed “The Flight of Parisians,” the newspaper Le Parisien sounded the alarm over the sh…
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