How to be a digital nomad in Paris

This article is part of FT Globetrotter Guide to Paris:

In many ways, Paris is the bracket of digital nomads. It is the largest urban economy in EuropeBeautiful city, endless actions with the packaged international people, which are dotted by collaborative areas and cafes related to planes and trains. World-class public transport is dense subway and is now visible on bicycles, “It is very compact. You can swiftly turn to meet, meetings and events. But the city also has its pitfalls. How best topass them and become a digital nomadic in Paris? Below is a brief guide.

Where to live?

Paris is very expensive to refreshe without guaranteed income flow. Players nodes such as Lisbon or Warsaw are cheaper. But there are ignored areas where you can live at a discount quite close to Central Paris.

This is that Paris itself, the image-post-mail city of the Eiffel Tower and the Notre-Dame, relatively small. In Paris, only 2.1 million people live in “Intra Muros” (inside of the walls), inside the Péripérique Ring Road.

The city is now thrown through dwarves with its burgenary suburbs. suburbshome, about 8.7 million people. Peripheral suburbs are sometimes outline reputation unconditional. Due to the expansion of subway lines and bicycle lines, such internal suburbs of Montreuil have become stolen with great districts, which are only 15 minutes from Central Paris, but much more expensive. Apartment rental 23 euro per square meter on St-Ouen and €25 in Montrevellcompared to 32 € In Paris Assess Seloger’s website. Digital nomads should include suburbs in their mental maps.

Because those who want to live in Paris are best to understand the main cultural division of the city. In general, the hypstra is dominated by the East of the Pompidi Center (North-East Paris is the chronic parc de la nilette. The 16th playlist is a bourgeois peak.

How to find accommodation?

Just having enough money can not get you the apartment you want. French lease laws give strong protection to tenants. Because the hosts cannot always drive out the people who stop paying, they are afraid to rent anyone who is uncertain. Most acknowledges only monthly armed tenants Salary bulletin: and the famous French CDI, The Personalized employment contractactually a long working contract. A company that acts as a guarantor of foreign tenants GuaranteeA number

Otherwise, nomads could avoid the French market and hired an airstream or a service-generated premium) or use a local English-language website. fusac.frwhich offers property rental aimed at international arrivals. FUSAC also has advertisements for children’s care, meetings, French lessons, etc.

Where to work?

The apartments in Paris are small, so working from home can not be an option. Countless cafes in the city can act as accidental jobs. Laura Shawd, an American who works a distance from Paris says that when you have a terrible boring meeting, you just have to dial, it’s better to do it. ” But in Paris cafes, the area is also premium, and laptops are often terrified. The local local bistro is usually allowed to work, but he warns.

You can be fragile to which cafes will at least let you bake coffee in the middle of the morning or in the middle of the afternoon. A place that is generous to laptops and is suitable for satisfying work ties, spacious and attractive Café beaubourgNear Pompidu.

Regular work is best done in collaborative areas – Les Courorkings:French, which had been grumbling in Paris in recent years including chains Wework: aeration of Morningc. Most partners Organize utility food, aperifts and other events where the nomads can meet. Dennis Wilke, a Dutch lawyer, located in Wework’s case, to look at the digital nomads in the world look the same. It’s Paris, but it could be Sydney.

One beautiful Parisian partner The morning building is 34 Rue Laffitte In the 9th drawing. Most of it is reserved for companies who rent their offices, but there are also a population of 30 working nomads, which can use the sixth floor with its large roof with a large land cafe. The nomadic worker here pays 350 euros a month in VAT in general areas, small gym, etc. Certain Parisian partners Wrap a lot of people in a tangled space (as it is Paris) but not in the morning laffitte. Currently, about 25 in the morning partners They are open to nomads in Paris.

Working in different parts of Paris is a privilege to be digital nomads here. Joseph Joseph Moore, Marketing British, who often works from Paris, says: “Every day I try to go somewhere, see somewhere.” He offers the Public Library Network of Paris. Are special jewelry Sainte-Geneviève Library: Next to the pantheon and Forest based in the 16th century myth (city mansion) in the 4th place.

The most beautiful public work area of ​​the city can be the 1930s Oval room Bibliothèque in Richelieu. It’s free but acoustics mean it’s rarely calm and sometimes there are queues for the table.

On sunny days you can work for free on the outdoor tables in the pastoral yard Climate Academy On RUE DE RIVOLI. The building, the former mayor of the 4th deputy, is a treasure of such a distress that it opened in 1867 in 1967 by Baron Huulsman himself. The snack bar serves everyday vegetable dinner.

StationBased on an unused railway warehouse, it is the technological node of Paris. Only preferred starting works are worked here, but the station has a huge Italian restaurant-kum-food market and many Public eventsA variety of “is a great place to try and find customers and businesses,” says green.

Language and network

Talking language will always make your life in Paris, but the city is more and more in English. There is a centuries-old industries in French lessons for foreigners in Paris, during which schools rise and die. Many people are advertised fusac.frA number

Is a traditional, state-established place to learn French French bloc The cultural center in 101 in the boulevard in Vaspail, which teaches lessons at all levels “complete beginners.” It doubles as a good place to meet other freshly fresh foreigners.

Another popular knot of a network and other arrivals meeting is Encounterwhich hosts all kinds of events from a business network to dance, many of them in English.

Lost in French Functions as a movie club for English. In its own words, “Classic and French recent films are shown in English subtitles, often follow Q & As Film Crews, when an international crowd can meet each other and native valves. It is also a good way to start a French cinema.

Paris is full of English-speakers, and on the streets on the street, for which you can actually live. If you want to access local Anglophone life, young English-speakers traditionally gather in certain bars such as Bottle shop On the 11th trimester or British pubs on sports television such as The bomber (2 Places DU Pantheon), The highlands (8 Rue De Nevers) or Irish Pubmock O’Sullivans (in different places). Clutter Rue de la Folie-Méricourt, named after “Disorder” song “Disorder”, is the main bar of 11th horizontal music, DJs, which occupy many Anglophones. Is on the other end of the social spectrum American Church 65 four in D’Orsay.

Unlike other major cities in New York and other major cities in New York and Hong Kong, the same social role in Paris, maybe here, as it is not enough to block dozens of Paris streets.

Other practicalities:

France does not have a special visa for digital nomads. Americans, the British and Canadians can spend 90 days in France without a visa, but they can’t work legally without one. Self-employed people who “want to create or participate in commercial, industrial, artificial or agricultural activities or working in a liberal profession in France can apply for a one year long-term visit. The high value of “International Talents”, employee or self-employed can get “Talent visas” up to four years. There are also special visas Technical staff, founders and investorsA number

Digital nomads generally pay tax only in France if they are at least spending 183 days here annuallyOne simple tax status is “AUTO-ENTREPRENEUR”For self-employed people, at 77,700 euros per year. Sarah Dalgh, about a registered American car accident, said:

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

Have you worked – or you work as a digital nomadic in Paris? We would like to hear you about your experience in the comments below. And follow Ft Globetrotter on Instagram @FTGLOBETROTTER

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