I don't inflict horrors on readers.
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.