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Hollywood star Natalie Portman has explained why she prefers
living in Paris
than in Los Angeles. The 43-year-old actress talked about her life in Paris, where she lives with her two children – Aleph and Amalia in a cover story for Net-a-Porter, reports people.com. “I find the people here are actually incredibly friendly – you just have to know how to interact, so that we’re not the ones being rude. Now, when I go back to the U.S., I’m like, ‘Oh,’ I would go into a store and not say hello to everyone there? It’s weird,” she said. She added, “I think we have an assumption that Western cultures are all the same, and kind of evened out by all this pop culture that everyone consumes. It’s not true: it’s extremely specific here, and the culture is very different in both deep and surface ways.”
Despite the cordial greetings to strangers that may seem odd to the average city dweller, Portman said the Parisians understand her boundaries. “They’re very good at privacy here,” she revealed. “I feel like the biggest compliment is ‘elle est tres discrete’ (‘she is very discreet’).” Portman, who shares her two children with ex-husband Benjamin Millepied, said she’s grateful for being able to raise t
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