After three years of living here, we can confirm what we suspected: Living in a French city is better than living in a North American city. I think at this point, even my oldest son, who was 15 at the time of our move and naturally the most reluctant and had the hardest time with the transition, agrees. There are a lot of reasons, big and small. Here are some of the reasons having to do with the physical environment of the city.

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00:01 Intro
00:22 Retail Abundance and Diversity
02:05 Public Spaces
04:03 Street Grid Absence
05:26 Fine Grain Detail
08:05 Setbacks are Less Prevalent
13:00 Midrise density rather than Highrises and Skylines
15:04 Human Scale
15:48 Complete Eco-system of People
18:20 Unrelated to the topic: My sons cooking dinner
18:32 End