Angers? What they loved... and didn't

Regularly, local medias let Angers inhabitants speak about their city. Very often, the descriptions are positive and refer to material aspects of the town. Interviewing foreign citizens, like students who followed french courses at the Western Catholic University during july, may sometimes drive to slight differences and an opinion which is about the people of Angers as well as the monuments.

Of course, much of them have been sensitive to the mix of architecture of different periods and the remains in the core of the city of testimonies of the past. They have also appreciated the presence of the Maine, that river which divides the city in two parts town hall want to reunify. The liveliness of the bars with terraces has been appreciated, days and night. "In Angers, people are more thoughtful. The don't speak without thinking first", points out Jacky, a young american coming from Georgia.

But these positive jugdments are counterbalanced by "the dirtiness of the streets and the pavements". To throw a cigarette, a chewing gum or a paper on the ground would be indictable in my country, says, in substance, Clara, a young american coming from Hawaï. For Anako, a young japanese, who studied in Tours and Angers, "the city is dreary on sundays while in her country, shops are opened and often managed by students every weekend".