Salut Youtube!
If this is your first time here, I'm Rosie, and I'm a Kiwi living and Paris and today
I thought it could be quite fun if I took you around for a tour of my apartment
and to tell you as well how much rent I'm paying
here so that you can get a fair idea of what you can expect your money when you come to Paris.
I'll also talk a little bit in general about the cost of living in Paris
If you have any further questions on this topic
Please post them down below, and I'll be happy to answer them
Before I get started with the tour though
I just wanted to mention that this is not the first apartment that I've had in Paris
It's my second one - the first apartment
I lived in for two and a half years
and it was just a small studio apartment of 22 square meters
and what I will say is that most people do not start out
in a big 1-bedroom apartment like I'm going to show you
today and honestly after
two and a half years of living in this tiny studio, this is my "I deserve this apartment" apartment
Let's get going and I'll show you around!
Great so welcome to the living room
Which is probably one of my favorite spots in the whole apartment
It's a super calm and light room which I really like
I'll start to giving you a little bit of a look around
So what we have up here are some nice
prints that I've ordered which are actually different mountains that you can find throughout
New Zealand and so they've kind of been interpreted in a geometric print kind of way
And I really love the colours, and as you can probably spot in the lounge
I have tried to keep the geometric theme present throughout
I've got my geometric coasters
On our nice
Squidgy woolen rug which is very cozy in the winter time
It saves your feet getting too cold from the wooden floors
And what I really love is that we have these big windows or doors which open out onto our little balcony
And as you step outside you get this wonderful view of these Parisian houses
and these Haussmanian apartment style buildings
I just love this because it makes me feel like wow I'm really living in Paris
and I don't think you can see it
But basically at the end of the street you have the Moulin Rouge
So we're in the north of Paris
And we've got this cool fake grass on the terrace, which is just pretty random
But I love it
Cool so coming back inside, and I'll take you over to the kind of dining area
And over here we've got our little office desk and above the office desk
we have a canvas print of a photo that I took a few years ago on vacations
in Italy in the Cinque Terre
I really love that old mirror and the fireplace just below it
Over here we've got a great piece of furniture that the previous tenants actually restored and
we bought it off them when they left because well,
there was no way they were going to get this down the stairs anyway
But it's really handy, we've got our plates, cups and glasses in here
and everything that you need to set the table
it's really practical and pretty good looking at the same time
My beautiful little niece Lulah when she was a baby
Those are really pretty
candles actually they have tea lights down the bottom and when they light up the windows
light up as if somebody's home
While I do like to have a few nice touches here and there
I have tried to keep things as simple
and as minimalist as possible
and there I am, hello!
The main reasons just being that I hate clutter, and I really believe in
using fewer things for a longer time
Cool so let's continue the tour
Here we go into the hallway, and we've got our things at the end - coat rack & a shoe rack
Let's go into the kitchen. I'll pop the light on
So unfortunately we don't have any windows in the kitchen
but hey you've always got to give something in Parisian apartments
Oh, we've got some cool magnets on the fridge here with some Māori words
So we're learning some of the colours in (Te reo) Māori
Kowhai's yellow, Kakariki's green
and so as you can see it's not a huge commercial kitchen
We've just got a couple of elements, a little spice rack, some cupboards and our
microwave oven so nothing very impressive in there
and as you can see we've got our
washing machine in the kitchen and that's really classic in Paris
So moving into the bedroom, very simple bedroom
As you can see we don't even really have any art, or a lot of color going on in the bedroom
I really like simple clean spaces in bedrooms
For me it gives a sense of tranquility and it's nice and easy to relax and get to sleep in them
This is the view when you look outside our bedroom window
And the bathroom, I won't spend much time on that, it's a standard bathroom
We've just got a toilet
Oh, this is funny
WC which stands for 'water closet' they've labelled the toilet
and we've got pink toilet paper
It's very small
But at least it's got windows which means that we can open the windows when we're having a shower
And it doesn't get too steamy or too hot
So here's the bedroom from this angle
We've got a nice big wardrobe on the other side of the room
We've got a clothes rack on one side
And we've got big shelves on the other so it's perfect to store all of our belongings
I think this building is about a hundred and ten years old now so beautiful
I just love the floors so much
And here we go back into the living area
So I hope you guys enjoyed that little tour around
As I said this isn't really
The normal apartment that you would start out and as a student.
It's definitely a working professional apartment
So how much rent do I pay?
Well this apartment is based in the 9th arrondissement
So it's nice and central
So it's in a really cool area. It's quite hipster now. It used to be really dodgy.
I mean 10 years ago
you wouldn't want to live near Pigalle because that's where all the prostitutes were
and it was famous for having
people selling drugs around this area and all the bad things that kind of go with that
But these days that's kind of a cool place to live,
it's up-and-coming as they say and it is safe now
So my boyfriend and I for this apartment we pay
1300 euros per month
And that includes our charges so that includes our
water, and it includes the general services of the building so the lift that we use
the security, that kind of thing, those kinds of shared costs
So it means that I am paying personally
650 euros per month and my boyfriend of course takes the other half of that
As a student
I think you can expect to pay in Paris anywhere between sort of 550/600 to 900
For a studio depending on the quality and on the size and on the location and when you upgrade to having that
one-bedroom, I think you're really more so looking at
950/1000 - 1500 being the range that you're looking at
So is that expensive? Well it depends on
what your reference point is and how much you're earning
If you're coming from London, it's probably
really cheap for this size and in this location
To put it into context,
in France the minimum wage that you could possibly be earning if you're working full time Is
1,500 euros per month
so if you're in a studio of
700-800 euros per month
Yes
It's expensive, rent sucks up half of your income
For people with my kind of profile that is to say you've got higher
education, you're in your late 20s, you're working full-time in a professional context
I'd say that most people spend between
25 to
40 percent
Of their net income after tax on their rent
Of course on top of that you have to add
your phone your internet your transport your groceries the cost of living
But that hopefully gives you roundabout an idea of what you can expect in Paris
If you have any other questions about this
please feel free to post them down below. I will get back to you.
I'm happy to share really anything
I'm an open book
So don't hold back
And I will also link for you down below an interesting map that I found with the average rent prices
for a studio in
every single arrondissement in Paris
which gives you a general idea of the market
So that is all from me for this week guys
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whatsoever well, I mean I have my limits, but if you have any requests on the topics of France, culture,
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A bientôt!
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