As someone who lives in Marseille and used the 2-year unemployment benefits to start a company, I must say this comment is spot on.

My girlfriend had a poorly aimed egg thrown at her late at night in Marseille on a kebab run for wearing a short skirt in a Muslim neighborhood. Seems pretty rough to me!

Which neighborhood/district? I don't know what you mean by muslim neighborhood. Most of the city is really multicultural.

You can find far worse anecdotes for any large US city.

source: trust me bro

France is not a planned economy in the Soviet Union style, and we are in a privatisation trend. But the state still has a huge role in the economy and a history of interventionism in the private sector. More than most European countries.

I have no knowledge of the worst American cities, but saying that Marseille's worst neighborhoods are "chill" and "The streets are pretty safe" is pure madness.

I grew up in Marseille worst neighborhoods.

There are dozens of worst places around SF, LA, NYC, Chicago. There are no crackheads in Marseille. 100x less guns than in any American city.

This. In Spain, the Marseille's counterpark (shitty urban black hole) would be the 3000 viviendas (3000 homes) in Seville, or maybe some barrack based 'hood in Madrid far in the downtown.

And even with that, I would be safer if I kept a low profile with my head down and by not getting into troubles and by avoiding some taverns. Try that at the worst places of any big city in the US.

In Marseille, 68 shootings and 30 deaths in six months. There are worse cities in America, but not many.

https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2023/08/17/a-marseill...

There are many, many, many worse cities in the US. That's a homicide rate of 3.75/100'000, which is lower than the US average of 4.9/100'000 : most US cities have worse homicide rates than Marseille. If Marseille was a US city, it would be the 3rd or 4th city with a population over 1 million with the lowest homicide rate.