So... there is creativity still...

Shortly after moving to Europe I asked an artist at an exhibition
where creative people lived.  I was told that due to the high cost of
living that everyone had left and live elsewhere.

After this conversation I came to feel that the creative energy that made Paris the center of the world for so many years had been forced out with the gentrification, the commercialization, and the handing over of the city to tourism.

Yet this may not be the entire story. There is still something of that old spirit in Paris. It lives along the edges and in the corners of culture and society. But it's still here.

This little fact makes me happy.