Is France safe in 2015?

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After the Paris terror attacks, is it still safe to visit France ?

While one death is one too many, it is important to see things in perspective.

In spite of the alarmist warnings about Paris, there can only be one answer to this question, and that is a resounding YES. France is safe, and generally speaking Paris is safe. And unless some general international terror campaign should break out in the coming weeks and months, France will remain a safe place to visit. It is very important to see things in perspective.
  There are some 32000 districts, known as communes, in France. If ten of these are the theatre of a terrorist atrocity in 2015, that will be a lot.

For about 31,800 of these communes, the risk of a terror outrage is nil: for some 200 sensitive or symbolic communes there is a risk that someone or some people will plan an attack, which is why the terror alert in France, as in many other countries, is currently on "high". But the risk of any of these planned outrages actually succeeding has to remain low. Some will; most won't.
  It is very likely that there will be one or more terrorist attacks in France in the months ahead. It is highly unlikely that you, the potential tourist reading this page, will get caught up in it.

  The next terrorist attack, when it comes, may be again in Paris; but it is just as likely to be in London, or Manchester, or New York, or Los Angeles, or Berlin, or Madrid, or Sydney, or Copenhagen... not to mention Bombay or Karachi. And it might be somewhere else in France - Lyon or Marseille or Toulouse, just as it could be in Lisbon or Stockholm or Edinburgh or Munich or Innsbruck. It could be at a major world airport, or on a train somewhere. No-one knows.

   On the other hand some things are certain. Terrorists are unlikely to target a holiday resort frequented largely by tourists, be they French or foreign; and they are unlikely to target any rural location. There would be no symbolic value in either of these. Paris has to be a  prime target, because it is symbolic; but there is such tight security in and around the French capital that it may not be a target. And in any event, even in Paris, the likelihood of you, the tourist, actually being in the wrong place at the wrong time, is minuscule.
   Statistically, you are much more likely to be the victim of a road accident at home (as a driver or passenger or pedestrian) than the victim of a terror attack while on holiday in France. You are even actually more likely to be the victim of accidental poisoning in your home country, than victim of a terror attack while on holiday in France. It is very important to see things in proportion, and not get carried away by ungrounded anxieties.
   So to the question; is it safe to visit France in 2015 or 2016, the answer again is yes. Even if, instead of coming for a week or two to France, you decided to stay in your own home, or venture to some remote spot far from any terrorist's wildest dreams, you could still be victim of an accident. Absolute safety doesn't exist.
   A terrorist attack is just one among dozens of misadventures that could befall a tourist while on holiday anywhere; and an unlikely one at that. And compared to other places in the world, France in 2015 remains a pretty good place to be, in terms of relative safety.