This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s Guide to Paris
Paris is, in many ways, the digital paradise of Nomad. Economy, Europe’s largest urban economy, a beautiful city with endless activities, filled with international people, painted with cooperative spaces and cafes, connected by planes and trains in half the world. A dense metropolis with world-class public transport and now stratified with bike lane, “you can very compact-you can get around it quickly, for meetings and events,” says Adam Green, a British writer and editor a happy digital nomad here. But the city also has its traps. How better do you bypass them and become a digital nomad in Paris? Below is a short guide.
Where to live
Paris is too expensive for breeze nomads to set up without a guaranteed stream of income. Nomade centers like Lisbona or Warsaw are cheaper. But there are bypass areas where you can live with a fairly close to the central Paris.
This is because the paris-cuckoo of the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame photo cards-is relatively small. Only 2.1 million people live in Paris “Intra Muros” (“Inside the Walls”), within the path of the Périphérique ring.
The city is now dwarf from its growing suburbs, peripheryhome for about 8.7 million other people. Sometimes the suburban reputation is largely undeserved. Thanks to the expansion of subway lines and bicycle lanes, internal suburbs like Montreuil and St-Uuen have become flowering hipster neighborhoods that are only about 15 minutes from Central Paris, but much less costly. Apartment rental prices on average € 23 per square meter per month in St-uuen, and 25 € in Montreuil, compared to 32 € in Paris, estimates the Seloger website. Digital nomads should include periphery in their mental maps.
For those who want to live in Paris themselves, it is best to understand the main cultural divisions of the city. In general, the hipsters predominate east of the Pompidou center (north-east Paris towards Parc de la Villette is cheaper), and the bourgeoisie lives west of Place de la Concorde. The 16th arrondissement is Peak Bourgeois.
How to find accommodation
Just having enough money can not get you the apartment you want. French rent laws give strong protection to tenants. Since landlords cannot always start people who stop paying rent, they are careful to rent for anyone whose financial security is unsafe. Most accept only armed tenants with each month wage bulletin and the famous French cdi, The undetermined employment contractIndeed a lifelong employment contract. A company that acts as a guarantor for aspiring foreign tenants is a guarantor.
Otherwise, the nomads could avoid the French market and rent an airbnb or an apartment served (generally with a premium), or use the English -language local website Fusac.fr, which offers property of property aimed at international coming. Fusac also has children’s care ads, meeting places, French lessons and more.
Where to work
Parisian flats are small, so working from home may not be an opportunity. Countless city cafes can act as occasional workplaces. Laura Schalk, a remotely working American from Paris, says that when you have a boring “boring, which you just have to call, it’s best to do it while eating fritite steak in a cafe”. But even in Parisian cafes, the space is with a premium, and often irritated laptops. Schalk’s regular local bistro usually allows her work, but she warns: “People there give me hugs and kisses when I get inside, so I wouldn’t try it anywhere. I didn’t go and open my laptop at peak time.”
You can give up which cafes near you will allow you to at least leave the coffee for a magic in the middle of the morning or in the middle of the afternoon. A place that is generous for laptops, and suitable for working contacts, is Café Beaubourg wide and attractive, near Pompidou.
Regular work is best done in cooperation space- Les CoworkingsIn French – that have sprouted throughout Paris in recent years, including Wework and Morning chains. many COLLABORATION Organize municipal foods, aperitifs and other events where the nomads can meet. Dennis Wilke, a Dutch lawyer who is a habitator of Wework Marais, notes that digital nomads around the world look alike: they wear beanie hats, hold macBooks and make loud phone calls on their airpods. It is Paris, but it can be Sydney.
A beautiful parisian concrete It is the morning building at 34 Rue Lafftte in the 9th Arondissement. Most of it is reserved for companies renting their offices, but there is also a working population of about 30 nomads, which can use the sixth floor with its large roof terrace and wide underground floor café. A nomadic worker here pays € 350 per month plus VAT for using hotdesks in common spaces, a small gym and more. Some Parisian COLLABORATION Pack a lot of people in a stuck space (as Paris himself does), but not the morning laffits. Currently, about 25 in the morning COLLABORATION In and around Paris are open to the nomads.
Working at various points of Parisian beauty is a privilege to be a digital nomad here. Joseph Moore, a British in marketing who often works remotely from Paris, says: “Everyone I try to go somewhere new, I see somewhere new.” He recommends the Paris public libraries network; Special Jewels are Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève near Pantheon, and Forney centered in the 16th century residency (urban residence) in 4th arondissement.
The most beautiful public work space of the city can be the 1930s Oval Hall at Bibliothèque Richelieu. Free free, but acoustics means it is rarely quiet, and sometimes there is a line for a table.
In sunny days, you can work for free on external tables in the Académie Du Climat New Court at Rue de Rivoli. The building, the former municipality of the 4th Arrondissement city, is such a Haussmannian treasure that was inaugurated in 1867 by Baron Haussmann himself. The Rostichery bar serves a daily vegetarian lunch.
Station F, centered on an abused railway depot, is the Paris Technology Center. Only favored beginnings get the jobs here, but Station F has an extensive Italian-restaurant-couring and many public events. “It’s a great place to try to find clients and businesses to work with,” Green says.
Language and networking
Speaking French will always make your life in richer Paris, but the city is increasingly working in English. There is an centuries -old French -language class industry for foreigners in Paris, with schools that appear and die all the time. Many are advertised in Fusac.fr.
The traditional country, approved by the state to learn French, is the Cultural Center of the Française Alliance at 101 Boulevard Raspail, which teaches classes at all levels from “full beginners”. Doubles as a good place to meet other breeze aliens.
Another popular networking center and meeting of other arrivals is the meeting, which organizes events of all kinds, from business networking to dancing, many in English.
Lost in French it functions as a cinema club for Anglophones. Its field, in its own words, is “the appearance of classic and last French films with English subtitles, often followed by Q & not with film crews, and reception of drinks before any show so that the international crowd can meet with one another and local Parisians.” Also also a good way to start discovering French cinema.
Paris is full of speakers English, and many of those on the streets you can take for tourists actually live here. If you are looking to enter the local life of Angophone, the younger English speakers traditionally gather in certain bars, such as the Rue Trousseau Store in the 11th, or British Drinks on TV as Bombardier (2 Place Du Panthéon), Highlander (8 Rue de Nevers) different). Désordre in Rue de la Folie-Mériciurt, called for the song of Joy Disorder Division, is a music-themed bar after Punk in the 11th, with DJ on the weekend, which attracts many Anglophons. On the other side of the social spectrum is the American Church at 65 Quai D’Orsay.
Unlike other major cities like London, New York and Hong Kong, the run of the English clubs does not invade the same social role in Paris, perhaps because the running is not exactly socially approved here, or because a package of a runner would be enough to block the most Dinky Paris roads.
Other practices
France does not have a specific visa for digital nomads. Americans, British and Canadians can spend 90 days in France without a visa, but they cannot work legally without one. Self -employed people who “want to create or participate in a commercial, industrial, craft or agricultural activity or work in a liberal profession in France” can apply for a one -year -old visa. High -value “international talents”, either employed or self -employed, can receive “talent visas” for up to four years. There are also special visas for technology, founders and investors.
Digital nomads generally pay tax only in France if they spend at least 183 days a year here. A simple tax status is the “Entrepreneur Automatic”, for self -employed people in activities based on services that earn up to 77,700 € per year. Sarah Dalgish, a US registered automatic entrepreneur who was an independent independent researcher in Paris, says: “The French administration can be really challenging, but this is easy. You simply declare your quarter income, your social security contributions are automatically calculated and you do not need to keep books.”
Paris is a serious business city. Schalk warns: “The myth that the French do not work hard is definitely a myth.” But don’t work so hard as forgetting you are in Paris. “I have a market on my way,” Schalk says. “You can get out of your door and be transported within minutes – so you need to make sure you get out of the door.”
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