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Please do, about Bora Bora.
Monaco is fine, there is clearly no insecurity or anything like that as diversity can't afford a Coca Cola here. The biggest danger are trees falling on supercars on windy days... this is our dramatic headlines as well as the princess latest escapades for kicks. All the real estate however is appartments, and infinitely deep underground parkings (we are getting to the earth's crust soon)
I suspected you would have been to this area for business, the real estate market is huge, especially a few kilometers west, around Antibes (cap d'Antibes esp) and Cannes that has some very pricey properties on its hills, also postively safe and nice city (i lived there). The market seems of course cornered already by a few prestigious agencies (Barnes, Zingraff, Taylor), i don't know how much opportunities there really are for outsiders.
Paris is bad, Marseille possibly worse. You are somewhat fine in the center of Marseille but never venture in the north of the city (quartiers nord), this area is basically autonomous, not even the police goes there anymore, they ve given up. Nobody knows exactly what's going on deep in it, and you don't want to find out.
Toulon forget it too, it used to be the first city in France that elected a far right mayor in the 90's, he didn't have much power to do anything meaningful. That tells you everything you need to know already about the city.
As for people organizing themselves for protection, it's in some infancy, always a lot of inertia, the mass immigration is more recent than people think, and most haven't realized what kind of troubles they are in yet. Some older generations in the countryside had never seen a black person in their life until very recently, most of it was initially very concentrated around the big cities.
Im no fan of post modern style either, i find this current fascination for technological looking, almost industrial, homes very weird. I really like the Provencal style, one story wide stone houses with the mandatory blue shutters does it for me.
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