Paris even after terrorist attacks has a lower homicide rate than 32 US cities

[hunter]

32. You have no idea...

... but honestly, I wouldn't live any other way.

When I was a kid my dad, an artist, decided it would be fun to move to Spain. Franco's Spain. Picasso wasn't even living there.

My mom is a person who always says what she thinks. One night my dad couldn't sleep after my mom had told a Spanish official exactly what she thought of him Pompous little man, or something like that, maybe worse, so we stuffed everything we could into the car and headed to France.

Unfortunately our money in Spain didn't come with us. There were no automatic tellers then, or even credit cards ordinary people could afford.

So we were indigent Americans living in our car in a public park in France. The local community didn't know what to do with us so they bought us Ferry tickets to England.

The English bankers, bless their hearts, and with some reasonable commission, eventually pried my parent's meager savings out of Spain, lending them money until all the details were worked out.

I drive a mid 'eighties car with a bullet hole in it. I don't wash anything on it but the windows and mirrors, and I don't repair anything that's not essential for safety.

Self proclaimed "rational" people are often boring and entirely unable to recognize how irrational their own behaviors are.

Even if I die on the streets hungry and homeless, it will have been one hell of a ride.