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Saladman
Jan 12, 2010

Kalenden posted:

Look obviously I know it won't be that bad.

I was just wondering if it was wise to travel to London during a time of potential social unrest due to the Brexit.

Similarly to how going to Paris the previous weeks might not be optimal.

Paris was fine the previous weeks, that stuff is almost always overblown in media, like as if it was the 1960s Paris student protests again General strikes are waaaay more disruptive than any protest when it comes to France anyway. Most museums were only closed on one single day out of that entire 6 weeks or whatever of gilet jaunes, basically if you avoided the upper part of the champs Élysée and the area around palais d Élysée and you’d never know anything was going on. I’ve been in Paris during "big protests" and while I’m sure they’re big, 20k people throwing rocks at police in some corner of a city of 10m isn’t exactly grinding the city to a halt.

The stuff that makes the news is like one or two streets out of the country when everything else is going on more or less business as usual. Brexit is going to be inconsequential for day-to-day tourists on the ground. Major macro events don’t necessarily have any visible micro impact.

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