Bordeaux - nice gardens, astonishing buildings, wine, young people.

Read this as a mix of my experience with the experience of people who i'm getting to know. The word Bordeaux is betimes related with wine. And bordelais(e) really take their wine seriously. Of course that a billion dollar industry has a huge impact in the city, once that it's a tradition that started 2000 years ago. But the pride of the bordelais(e) goes way above that. Bordeaux is located in the southwestern part of France. Easily reachable, is a major cultural center, classified as a World Heritage Site. The city long known as La Belle Au Bois Dormant (Sleeping Beauty) is well and truly awake, thanks to the high-spirited university student population, the restoration of many buildings and pedestrianising its boulevards. Aeronautic and aerospacial technologies are also fundamental for the region development. As i'm meeting locals and french people from other cities, i began to realize that there is a feeling that you will always be treated as a foreigner if you haven't been born in Bordeaux. To find a job and if you don't speak french can be really hard. Networking is quite taken into consideration and can take years to create an effective network, since that, and here only transcribing words of Parisians, people in Bordeaux and the French in general are very close minded and even rednecks. The bordealis(e) are very proud of their city, specially of their independence from Paris, and you have to dedicate a lot of your time to develop the right connections and maybe the dream job can never happen. But nevertheless, I'm loving living in Bordeaux. I'm feeling alive, i'm collecting a bunch of new experiences and learning new stuff that will be precious in the future. Even if i'm getting the feeling that Paris can be my next city...