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Cross-Chunnel Fusion; With Eurostar, London has become a suburb of Paris.
Byline: Tracy McNicoll and Emily Flynn
Paris? London? What's the difference, when you can hop a train after work as if it were the Metro and be in one or the other in time for dinner?
This autumn, the superfast Eurostar celebrates its 10th year, darting between the twin capitals in a scant two-and-a-half hours. Eclipsing distance--not to mention centuries of history--Eurostar has made Paris a virtual suburb of London. As for London, it's the hip new arrondissement northwest of Paris.
At least, that's Eurostar's take on the Chunnel "commute." With a cheap new 35 euro Paris-to-London fare--less than a taxi to Heathrow airport--it's marketing the cities as neighborhoods. Touristic cliches like Big Ben and Piccadilly are out. Instead, Parisians are invited to pop over for the Notting Hill Festival or go clubbing at the likes of China White, a Soho nightspot so chic with young Parisians that half the staff are French. To Londoners, Eurostar pushes Paris Plage, the uber-cool Seine-side beach.
Call it tunnel fusion. The casual blending is reflected in any number of ways. Much has been made of the bloodless British conquest of the French countryside, with untold numbers of Brits buying old French farmhouses and driving up real-estate prices. Yet while English retirees and second-home buyers may have ditched Devon for Dordogne, the younger set has different ideas. The British community in Paris has doubled since 1997 to 70,000; meanwhile, 262,000 French live in London--the second-largest ...
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