There's a reason all the intellectuals leave East for West

Wasn't there an illness when people go to France thinking it's awesome and stuff

You might have a better grip on your culture

But when actually there they see how shit it is

But we have the money

@Shrimpf i've been to france i'll have you know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome

Debunked

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Paris Syndrome is based on the fact that people have an idealized image of Paris

And then come and discover Paris is actually not that rich

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And actually deals with a lot of shit

Plus has a lot of ugly neighborhoods with old-style brutalist architecture

Instead of the beaux arts they imagine Paris to be littered with

Paris is often idealized en extrema

City of love, of art, etc

But it's literally just a workers city similar to London

Most big cities tend to be shitholes

^

Tho I won't lie

Those are not news

I fell in love with post-tourist period Rome

Explain

Isn't it obvious

I masturbate to romanticist art

And Rome masturbates to classic architecture

Including romanticism

Plus Rome isn't a very rich city like Berlin

Yeah that fits

So it's more lived in and less clean

@Shrimpf That Paris syndrome stuff though, aint that (mostly?) confined to Nips?

That too

Which makes the weeb version all the more delicious in its irony.

I remember watching something about the working class roman suburbs

Plus people just expect Paris to be filled with beaux arts

They were brutish but charming

OBjEctS dU ARt

Kek

But yeah what do you expect

If you make all of your roofs flat