Marseille
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- akrok0
"I moved to Marseille 8 months ago and it is now officially the worst place in the world, in my opinion. Within those 8 months, I have been shouted at more or less everytime I left my apartment. 3 months ago, my apartment got broken into, and everything valuable was stolen. Apparently, sunday afternoons is their favourite time because the majority of people go to the beach at this time. Myself and 2 female friends were walking home from a night out, and got followed home by a group of teenage boys, 1 of whom ran into us and tried to steal my bag. Luckily, we were holding on tightly so they ran off with nothing. And last night, to top all of this off, as I was at my friends front door, with the key almost in the lock, we turned around to see a guy pointing a gun at us, shouting at us in french. We didn't understand what he wanted, so he took the safety off the gun, which is when I gave him my bag, with my passport, purse, phone, iPod, keys... everything inside. He ran off. We called the police, asking to speak with an English speaking officer, but when I told him what had happened, he replied, with, 'Yeah...?' as if it was nothing and then hung up on me.
I strongly recommend that you don't travel to Marseille unless absolutely necessary. Women should definitely NEVER walk alone, and even in the daytime, be on your guard. If these people see any opportunity, they will take it. I'm leaving as soon as possible and I will never ever return".- ihatemarseille.
Read more: http://www.virtualtourist.com/tr…
- akrok0
dang...
"we witnessed a stabbing while we were eating at one of the nicer restaurants in the Viex Port" -xmeggles.Read more: http://www.virtualtourist.com/tr…
- jadrian_uk0
Blame sarkozy, actually this is a war between jews and arabs
- noel0
watch football threre! and you will love it!
- Cactus0
ville pleine de racaille...
- Quel stéréotype digne de SarkosyD4W33D
- http://www.guardian.…Cactus
- D4W33D0
Ouai bien sur et on va nettoyer tout ça au Karcher.
- isakosmo0
That website is bullshit. I'm French and I can tell you, just like any other big city in the world Marseille has its problems and its dodgy areas, but that website is a total dramatisation of the truth.
Unfortunately people tend to go on websites to talk about their experiences only when they're bad.
- Continuity0
^ That's true. You wouldn't catch me out at night in Walthamstow, but that doesn't mean I think ALL of London is like this.
- jfletcher0
I was just looking at going there as well.... but picked Budapest instead :P
- Be ready for nearly no-one wanting to speak English in Budapest.Continuity
- really? I was a bit worried, but whatever, I'm sure it'll be cool :Djfletcher
- I almost got kidnapped in Budapest! But it's a great place to party =)zarkonite
- isakosmo0
People like to complain and dramatise, especially on the web where there is little to no accountability. Think for yourself and take reviews with a pinch of salt, they could be written by an ignorant redneck for all you know, and you could miss out on some great stuff.
- epic_rim0
yeah, thats kinda what i thought. hype. I'm sure if i went looking for trip reports for my hometown Oakland, i'd find some terrible stories.
Any advice on cool stuff to check out while I'm there?