nytraveler

Well I guess you don't want to go to CA either.

menachem

I used to live in Israel, I still go there regularly. This kind of makes me smile.
Traveling to Paris next monday, will be there for a week. I'm not that worried about terrorism, more about police who are banning legal protests, detaining peaceful protesters, imposing house arrest on environmental activists, searching their houses and shutting down websites. All because of terrorists, you see.

greg

Looks like you are from the U.S.? Do you feel safer in the country where there is an average one mass shooting a day and where nothing happens after any of these as if they are just ordinary day events?
What you are asking is a probability event. While many equate things happen everywhere as if it is the same everywhere, the probabilities are vastly different. Many people want certainty in a world of probabilities. You would not find certainties. You only find those who try to profit from people's yearning for certainties.

pariswat

I'm not sure it helps to say it is worse in the US than in Europe regarding to safety.

Like saying that you have no problem with your Parkinson disease because your neighbour has Alzheimer.

Probability means nothing when it comes to discrete numbers.
And even less when it comes to oneself. If you have leukemia, you have a 80% chance of surviving. However people in the flseh that you meet are never 80% cured. They are either 100% dead or 100% alive.

And your life belongs 100% to you. So do your choices. Whatever strangers might write on a forum.

amyb

You need to make your own decision based on how comfortable you are. I just returned from 5 days in Amsterdam over the Thanksgiving weekend. I noticed nothing different (no more or less security) than my previous trip there. I did nothing differently than I would have, I stayed as alert as I normally am when traveling. I only once thought "hmmm, I haven't thought about terrorism at all while I've been here" but at no point did I feel unsafe or even nervous. Life goes on, I decided to go with it. Now whether any of this helps or hinders your decision is in how you perceive risk. I didn't expect to see more security or see people acting super hyped up, but maybe you would feel better if you did. It's your perception of the risk, I think, that will influence your decision. Personally I'm glad I went and now look forward to a trip to L.A. in three weeks, which is the hotbed of gun activity du jour in my own country, unfortunately.

pariswat

Yesterday I passed by the Bataclan then slept in rue Charon, 50 m from another place of massacre.
These places are full of flowers, restaurants closed.

Difficult to not realize something happened.