How to successfully drive Parisians crazy? Foreign media: Complimenting Paris as the world’s greatest city

▲The Louvre in Paris is one of the most visited museums in the world. (Photo / via Wikimedia Commons)

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“Parisians” are often considered “different” from other French people, and in some people’s minds, they are notoriously hard to deal with. The travel websiteTimeouthas listed 30 things you can say or do to drive Parisians up the wall—whether you’re praising or criticizing Paris, it can successfully annoy them. Here are 15 of them:

1. Ask them how they can live in “an apartment this small”
2. Always hog the left side of the escalator without any intention of moving

3. Tell them: The Paris Metro is a “super charming place”
4. Tell them: “You’re a typical Parisian”
5. Tell them: Among Parisians, they’re one of the better ones
6. Invite them to have dinner in the suburbs of Paris
7. When taking the metro, walk straight into the carriage without waiting for them to get off first
8. Chat with the supermarket cashier in front of them
9. Drive very slowly
10. Ask them if Paris has “any good restaurants or bars”
11. Tell them to stop complaining all the time
12. Invite them to an expensive restaurant
13. Tell Parisians: Paris is a “city of museums”
14. Say that Paris stinks
15. Ask them to put out their cigarette
16. Tell Parisians: “Paris is the best/worst city in the world.” (Either way, it will upset them)