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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Jewish. I have a promotion opportunity to move to Paris with my company. The job is in the suburbs. There aren't many Jews at my company and I know nobody in the area.

[b]With the rising antisemitism in Europe[/b], is this a bad and dangerous idea?

Part of me is like "how cool to live abroad and expose my young children to French. My DH would be a stay at home dad for a year". The other part of me really doesn't want to put myself in a situation where we would be singled out due to religion. Our families had a hard enough time surviving WW2...

In the DC area, I  don't think twice about religion or discrimination. I did have a bad experience as a young 20-something living in a different part of the country where there were very few Jews.  A broken window, threats and racial slurs that I swear haven't been in the everyday vocabulary since the early 1950s (this was 15 yrs ago). So I picked up and moved to DC...

All other factors aside, WWYD?[/quote]

That's BS in 99% of the areas you'd ever visit in Europe -- much safer than hard-core ghettos here, Jew or not[/quote]

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