Apartment Search Update

Jill and I arrived in Paris on Sunday morning.  We decided to take a walk and look at some of the apartment buildings from the steet that are on the list our consultant provided.  The area is called Neuilly (pronounced Neweeee).  We liked the area.  It had a very residential feel about it, people/families walking, many little shops and lots of trees lining the steets.  After seeing the places today, I say one is off the list and the other is a distant 3rd.

Makes you wonder what we saw...

Today (Monday) we looked at 6 different places.  Two this morning and 4 in the afternoon.  The seventh appointment was cancelled due to the place got rented.  Just as fyi, two of the places we saw had wonderful views of the Eiffel Tower.  From what we are told, things move fast here.  If you find something you like - grab it.  Well we found 2 places we really liked.  One is on Rue de Lisbonne and the other is Rue du Bac.  Lisbonne is in the 8th Ard (ward for us U.S. people) and Bac is in the 6th.  Both are very nice places in the middle of typical Parisian communities.  If you close your eyes and visualize your idea of a place in Paris, this is it.  Both are in old buildings with many small shops very near by.  There are a number of great things about each and a few "negatives" or, as I like to call them, compromises.  All in all it was a good day.  I can see us living in either one.

With that said, our consultant has us seeing 3 more places tomorrow.  She seems to think we may find one even more to our liking.  I'm quite impressed by her.  She took the information we submitted on-line and translated to something we would like.  Let's hope her intuition is right.  But if not, both places have 2 or 3 bedroom options, so they are perfect for family and friends. 

Oh by the way, the 2 with the view of the Eiffel Tower aren't on the list.