How to be a digital migratory in Paris

This article is part of FT Globetrotter Guide to Paris

Paris is in many ways, the sky of digital displaced. Europe is the largest city economyA beautiful city with a beautiful city full of international people full of jobs and cafes that are full of jobs and cafes that are involved in the world. With world-class public transport and now with bike strips, “you can go for a very compact – this, you can go for a walk around, meetings and events quickly,” says the Green, English Copyaire and Editor – and former digital migrants. But there are also casualties of the city. How good is it for a digital migrant to put them aside in Paris? Below is a short guide.

Live

Paris is very expensive for those who have a guaranteed income flow for freshly stuck nomads. Migratory hubs like Lisbon or Warsaw are cheaper. However, there are places where you can live in a very discount near the Middle Paris.

This is relatively small in the picture-postcard city – Paris itself – Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame. Only 2.1 million people in Paris live inside the Périphérique ringway (inside the walls “).

The city is already a dwarf with its growing suburbs surroundingshome for about 8.7mn people. The surroundings’ sometimes sketch reputation, mostly unpleasant. Thanks to the expansion of subway lines and bike strips such as Montreuil and St-Owen, hipster neighborhoods of hipster neighborhoods, which are about 15 minutes from Central Paris, but came less expensive. Apartment rental prices average 23 € A square meter in St-Owen and €Montreuil 25compared to 32 € in Paris, appreciate the seloger website. The mental maps of digital nomads must include suburbs.

For those who want to live in Paris, it is best to understand the main cultural units of the city. In general, the hipsters dominate the east of the Pompidou Center (Northeastern Paris PARC De La Villette is the cheapest) and live in the west of Burjueoisie Yer de la Concorde. 16th ordensiya peak bourgeois.

How to find the place of residence

Just make enough money, you can’t get the desired apartment. French rental laws give tenants strong protection. Since the homeowners are not always able to drive people who stopped paying the rent, they refuse to rent anyone who is indefinite financial security. Most are only accepting monthly armed tenants newsletter And the famous French CDI, Indefinite business agreementAn effective business contract is in force. Is a company that acts as a deservative of foreign tenants Guarantee.

Otherwise, nomads can prevent French market and rent an airline or served (usually in a reward) or use a local English-language classified website fusac.frOffering a property rental aimed at international arrival. FUSAC also has ads for children’s care, session, French classes and more.

Where to work

Paris apartments are small so it may not be an option to work from home. Countless cafes of the city can act as random work areas. An American Laura Schalk, who works remotely from Paris, “It’s better to do so while eating steak frite in a cafe to wear a cafe.” However, in the Paris Cafe, the space is a reward and laptops are often angry. Schalk’s regular local bistro allows you to work in general, but when the people who are there, they hug me and kiss me, so I didn’t try it everywhere.

You can allow any nearby cafes to let you bow on coffee for a magic in the morning or afternoon. A place that is generous for laptops and a place that adapts with business contacts is wide and attractive Cafe Beaubourgnear Pompidou.

Regular work is the best in the excellent workplaces – les workin French – in recent years in Paris, including chains We Work and Morning. Most having makes the case Organize other measures that utility meals, aperitifiers and nomads can meet. Dennis Wilke, a Dutch lawyer, a Dutch lawyer, a habit of Work, Digital nomads seemed the same in the world: Beanie hats, they wear MacBooks and do high-voice phone calls. It is Paris but can be Sydney.

A nice paris having makes the case The morning building is 34 Rue Laffitte In the 9th Ordement. Most of it is separated for companies that lease their offices, but there are a business population that can use up to 30 large roofs and a large land floor cafe. Here, a nomadic worker pays 350 euros per month to use hotdesks in a promising spotes, a small gym and more. Certain paris having makes the case Too many people into a compressed space (like Paris itself), but in the morning laffitte. Currently the 25th of the morning having makes the case Open for nomads in Paris and around.

Working in different Paris beauty spots is a privilege to move digitally here. A British Joseph Mure in marketing often running from Paris, “I try to go somewhere every day, see a new place.” Paris recommends the network of public libraries; Special Jewelry Sainte-Geneviève Library next to the pantheon and Fikney Located in the 16th century floor (a town) in part 4.

The city’s most beautiful social work area may be the 1930s Oval room In Bibliotèque Richelieu. Free, but acoustics are rarely calm and sometimes have the shifts of the table.

On sunny days, you can work for free on open tables in a new pastoral yard Climate Academy in Rue de Rivoli. The former city hall of the 4th building is so much Haussmanniya treasure, in 1867 by Baron Haussmann. The snack bar is a daily vegetarian dinner.

StationIn an unused railway warehouse is the technological center of Paris. Just liked beginnings Get jobs here, but the f will be a wide range of Italian restaurant-cum-food market and many Social events. “It’s a great place to try the hell and jobs,” says green.

Language and network

Speaking in French, it will always make your life richer in Paris, but the city will act in English. For foreigners in Paris, the French industry and die in the industrial industries, die and die. Many are advertised fusac.fr.

Traditional, state-approved place to study French French Union Cultural center in 101 boulevards, which teaches classes at all levels of “entirely new beginners.” Doubles as a good place to get acquainted with other foreigners.

It is another popular center for network and other arrival MeetMost people host and dance from the business network in English.

Lost in French Anglophones operate as a film club. His pitch, their own words, “English subtitles with English subtitles, have a good way of drinking and drinks before each other and the native Parisians.

Paris speaks English and lives here in a large number of street where you can really live for tourists. If you want to enter your local Anglophone life, small English linguists are traditionally gathered in certain rods, for example Glass store British pubs in 11th or rue trousseau, or television Bombberer (2 places du Pantheon), Highlander (8 rue de never) or Irish pub chain O’sullivans (in different places). Mess Joy De La Folie-Méricourt, called the song “Ruth” “Ruth”, is a punk panc music bar with DJs at the weekends attracting many Anglophones. At the other end of the social spectrum American Church 65 quai d’orsay.

Unlike other large cities such as London, New York and Hong Kong, clubs for Anglophones, maybe because the run is not social confirmed here or a package of many Jogger, most of the Jogger will be enough to prevent most Dinky Paris streets.

Other practitioners

France does not have a special visa for digital nomads. Americans, the British and Canadians cannot work without visa 90 days in France, but legally without one. Self-employed people who want to want to work in a commercial, industrial, crafts or agricultural activities or work or work in France in France can apply for a one-year long period of visa. Highly valuable “international talents”, or can receive employees working or self-employed “Talent Visas” up to four years. There are also special visas for Technical staff, founders and investors.

Digital nomads usually pay taxes in France only if they are not only expended 183 days here here. A simple tax status “Auto-Entrepreneur”For self-employed people in activities based on 77,700 euros per year. The auto-entrepreneur of the American registered in Paris for a long time auto-entrepreneur Sarah Dalglish, “French administration can be really difficult.

Paris is a serious business city. Schalk warnings: “The myth that the French do not work hard is openly a myth.” But don’t work until you forget that you are in Paris. “I have a market on my street” says Schalk. “You can go out of your door and transport it after a few minutes – so you need to make sure you are out of the door.”

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