Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
You mean to tell me that there may be some chabolas/bidonville elements to fair Paris? Shocking (high sarcasm alert).
The area we went to wasn't that bad. Lots of graffiti about.
We went to the 19th arrondissement which is in the North East of Paris and is one of the bigger arrondissements. The outer ones are all fairly large.
To get to this we used the ring road that goes around the 20 arrondissements. Technically if you live on the inside of the ring road you're in Paris. If you're on the other side you're not.
As we got closer to the 19th we came across refugee camps along the sides of the ring road. I was a little startled by that. Unless you drove from the airport to the center of Paris you wouldn't see this and that's of course if you came in on that airport.
I'm not entirely sure why this hasn't been taken care of yet but that's sot of France for you.
At this moment the 19th is one of the more 'real' areas left of Paris but I have little doubt that this will eventually change.
I think changes will come more once (if?) Brexit happens.