Ranking Every Paris Arrondissement

Ever wonder which arrondissement was the best arrondissement? I ranked every Paris arrondissement – which would be your S tier?

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I’ve lived in France for about a decade of
my life at this point, and for over eight years in Paris, running long enough that
they actually ended up giving me French citizenship, not from the
goodness of their hearts. I asked for it, but I’ve
lived here for a long time. I’ve explored Paris, top
to bottom, left to right. There are very few streets in this
city that I have not wandered down. If you don’t believe me, you can go back
and look at all the series I’ve done. I’ve seen a lot of the city. I won’t say that I’ve seen all
of it, but I know it very well. And so today, we’re going to rank Paris
Arrondissements once based on where I would want to live here, purely my opinion,
I’m sure that will still offend some people somehow, but let’s get into it,
starting with the first arrondissement. Now, if you didn’t know, the Paris
arrondissements circle outwards. They start with the first
here, and then they spiral out. It’s like a snail. We’re going to start in the middle and
we’re going to work our way out and I’m going to let you know
where I would want to live. There are two rules here. I’m limiting myself to one S tier
and I have to give out one F tier. But as I say that, the reality is there
are a couple of places that I would I would probably rank as S tier. This is tricky for me.
This is very tricky for me. Even though I might give a couple of,
like F tiers, depending on who I’m talking to, the reality is I’m very lucky to live
in Paris, and as long as I am living in this city, I don’t care where, really. I’m just happy to be here.
It’s a small city. You can cross it easily. I’m very happy just to
be in Paris, period. So don’t take this as me complaining. I’ll be happy if I end up in any of these,
and you will see I have receipts for that.
So the first arrondissement. The first has some things
going for it right now. Parisians, my friends, so many Parisians
that I know in general, give the first a hard time for a couple of reasons. One, it is severely touristic. You have the Louvre and the Tuileries,
which are nice, but they’re not the nicest park, really. That’s a huge swath of this
tiny little arrondissement. Also, it has the tip of the island, one of
my favorite parks at the tip of the island. It’s beautiful, but it is pretty crowded
when it comes to the tourism side and very shoppery. Between Rue de Rivoli and then you have
Châtelet, Châtelet-les-Halles, the combined metro station that is one
of the biggest and busiest. It’s basically a big shopping
mall, and it brings the vibe down. If you live in the greater Paris
area, it’s a very central location. A lot of people go to do their shopping. It’s getting better in some ways, but in
others, a little bit of petty crime, not really my favourite. I’m going to put the
first for a living in C. It’s almost too central, and it’s not
even my favourite part of the river. The second is the hidden gem, I often say
in Paris, because it’s really overlooked. There are no major monuments. There are no parks, which is a drawback,
but it’s very quaint. It’s got some narrow
streets, lots of great food. Again, a lot of really
great stuff going on. You would know it for Rue Montorgeuil,
which I think is honestly an overrated street in Paris. It’s very fun to walk down.
It’s a nice high street. There are some nice things, but it is
overloaded with a lot of global retail type. It doesn’t feel all that quaint. But if you get off of it, there’s so many
branches off of it that are so nice with so many great restaurants. Then Sentier, that neighborhood at the top
of Montorgueil, it’s got so much great stuff to love. The second is a great place to go eat, to
drink, socialize, and it’s very central as well. Less touristed. Does miss out on some parks, though, which
is why Cooper, my dog, might not be a big fan of it. But the Second, I’m going
to have to give a B. I would much prefer to live in the
second than the first, personally. If I was given the choice, we’re living in
a fantasy land right now where I get to choose where I live in Paris,
someday this fantasy will come true. The third, known as the
Haut-Marais, is a very trendy place to be. Lots of fashionistas, lots of fashion
pop-ups, some phenomenal food, great bars. Some of my favorite
places to go out in Paris. The third is the redeeming side of
the Marais when it comes to food. We’re going to talk about
that here in a second. I’m going to get myself
in trouble for this. But the third is where you go to
eat and drink, and it is phenomenal. Again, like I said, there are so
many places that I still love. At the same time, the Marais as
a whole, honestly, overrated. It’s very crowded, so touristy. We’ll talk more about the fourth here in a
second, but the third is starting, I think, to succumb to
this a little bit, too. It’s very popular.
Everybody knows about it. Chatgpt will tell you to go there. And as a result, it’s just
wallops and wallops of people. The third is a little bit less wallopy
than the fourth in some ways, and it does have some phenomenal food, like I said,
but not really any parks that I particularly love. However, it does have my favorite museum
in the city, but we’re talking about living here, right?
How often am I going to go to that museum? For visiting, phenomenal. For life, stepping out into
those streets, so crowded. I have friends that live there.
I love them. They love living there. Unfortunately, I’m going
to have to give the third a B as well, which you might not have seen coming. I don’t know what you see coming in this. You can let me know in the comments below. Tell me before you get through this, where
you think my S tier is and where you think my F tier is. I want to hear that in the
comments before I get there. All right, so Numéro 4, we’re going to
talk about the 4th arrondissement, the quatrième. The quatrième is the more
traditional side of the Marais. It has the islands, as you can see, the
bigger chunk of Île-de-la-Cité and all of Île Saint-Louis. The islands themselves are
super charming, and I love them. The drawback for living is there’s not
a lot of great coffee or food there. There is a Noir on Île Saint-Louis now,
and I’m sure there will be some more coffee shops that pop up, but for
going out, not necessarily best. Now, you’re going to get the idea that me
personally, I like some nightlife, I like some vibrancy. My dream of living in Paris, maybe I
should have stated this at the beginning, so much of it is that I could just walk
outside my door, a few local bars that are my favorite places, a few restaurants
where I’m a regular, a few coffee shops that I can bounce between, things
that I genuinely, really, really love. And I’m close to friends. That’s a huge, huge thing for me, which
you’re going to see reflected in a number of these places and how I rank them. Also, forgive the random Photoshop
outlines and stuff as they pop in. Those are huge for me. Walkability, central, the overall
vibe of the place, just daily life. What is that like? For me, the fourth, unfortunately,
falls into the C tier as well. It’s really quaint and local.
It’s great. It’s got beautiful architecture. It has a lovely community. There are people there that I really do
like, but it is a food desert compared to the third and second, for example. Usually, I would say get
out of the fourth to eat. There’s some old classics there, but also
whenever I end up there, I feel hungry and I don’t know what to do
about it half the time. It is also really, really crowded. Again, you have Place des Vosges,
you have all these wonderful… Which is an amazing park that I love. You have all these wonderful
streets to wander down. But if you’re spending a Friday or a
Saturday wandering out into the streets, you’re going to get crowded out. It is so full of global
retail stuff, Uniqlo, Muji. There’s just a lot of brands
there that you can get anywhere. The soul is getting sucked out of
the fourth in a way, which is why when I look at it, I tend to think of it as being
a little bit overrated at this point. I would say that. I’m going to go on record. I think the fourth, I think the Marais as a
whole, a little bit overdone, a little bit overrated.
Unfortunately, it’s suffering for that. I don’t know that I want I don’t
necessarily live in the middle of that. You know what I mean? As much as I like some vibrancy, that’s a
little too much vibrancy, and it’s not like local vibrancy in that sense. I’m going to get in so
much trouble for this. I’m fully aware. All right, so the 5th of the
arrondissement is super charming. It’s studentsville, right? I grew up in a university town, and
there’s something that’s got that same vibe about the fifth. It has the Sorbonne, the Pantheon. It has so much going on, so many movie
theatres, so much great cheap and international food. There’s a lot of great student eats. It’s just a really easy place to go
out, grab a quick bite, grab a pint. It feels homey. That’s one of those things about other
places we’re going to talk about here soon, which you might have guessed,
might be my S tier or whatever. I’m not looking to do
fine dining all the time. I like fine dining. It’s grown on me a lot. As I’ve lived in Paris,
I’m very spoiled for it. But the fifth has a very
casual feel for me. It’s a young vibe. It’s one of those places
that I think is just fun. It has a lot going on. The Jardin des Plantes, some beautiful
churches, some beautiful vistas and views. I really, really love the fifth. And because it’s still very walkable and
fairly central, it’s not quite as central. The Left Bank struggles a little bit for
the Metro, but on your bike, you’re really good to go. I would absolutely give
the fifth a B-ranking. Wow, I’m not being very
generous yet, am I? Holy cow.
Where’s this going? You might be asking.
Well, let’s find out. So we move on to the 6th, which is
another actual favorite of mine. On the left bank, the left
bank has a lot going for it. I’m a very right bank person. My friends, we all joke
about it, we talk about it. You’ll see it in the interviews that I do. By and large, the right bank is where
the true vibrancy and fun is happening. However, the sixth has so
many things that I love. Great restaurants, phenomenal park in
Luxembourg Gardens, which is probably a little bit also maybe overdone. It’s very crowded. Everybody knows about it, but it
deserves the reputation it has. It’s a gorgeous park. It’s a very hot park in the summer.
Get in the shade. If you’re out on the gravel,
you’re going to roast. But there’s so much happening here, and
it’s got such great access to culture, some amazing galleries. It’s a great vibe when you’re walking
around and you’re not going to go hungry. Not that you’re going to go hungry
anywhere in Paris, obviously. But as far as the great places where I’d
want to be a regular, The sixth actually has a lot really going on. So I’m actually going to
have the 6th also a B. I think of the 6th as where
I’d like to retire someday. I really like to spend my sunset years in
the 6th because it’s still vibrant enough, but it gets quiet at night. And man, it has some really great spots. I really do love the 6th a lot. Which brings us to the 7th. The 7th arrondissement is where the Eiffel Tower is. The Eiffel Tower is out here
all the way, almost in the 15th. A lot of people actually think
the Eiffel Tower is in the 15th. Very close.
Not quite. I joke around a lot about how it was in a
suburb of Paris before Napoleon III came around. That’s how far away it is. That’s the vibe we’re going to start
getting into when we get into these outer arrondissement, to some degree. The 7th is this mainstay
in American mentality. People I love it for whatever reason. I don’t know what books they were reading. I don’t know who they connected to
with this, but it’s a very old money. It’s a very wealthy area.
It’s very beautiful. It’s very quiet.
It has Rue Cler. It has some very nice elements to
it, but I would hate to live there. There are only a couple of
restaurants that I really enjoy. Milagro, shout out. They’re phenomenal. Michelin recommended.
Great place. Zia, their original coffee shop,
the only breakfast burrito in town. There are a few things that I
really love there, but not much. The Eiffel Tower itself is gorgeous, and
having a picnic on the Champ de Mars is wonderful, but it’s something that if
you live here, you only do occasionally. If ever it’s something that falls off the
radar far too quickly, we should take much greater advantage of that as we live here. But again, it’s very touristed, and I don’t know why. I don’t know why. It’s so far from the rest of the city, and
I know it doesn’t look like it when you’re looking at this, but again,
Metro coverage isn’t great. There are just huge swaths of it that are
taken up by things like the Eiffel Tower and Champ de Mars or Les Invalides, which
are very beautiful buildings and wonderful parks to sit in. But for a living, is Is that
really where I want to be? It’s not my vibe. It doesn’t help that I don’t come from
money, and maybe I just feel a little bit intimidated by it all. Cards on the table. But yeah, going to have
to give the 7th a solid D. Maybe expected worse from that.
I don’t know. Which takes us to the 8th. Speaking of beautiful and not my thing,
the 8th has some beauty, and some beautiful buildings, very Haussmannian. The boulevard named
after Haussmann is there. It also has Park Monceau,
which is gorgeous. A lot of people think Park Monceau is in
the 17th, but it’s actually just barely in. The 8th, arrondissement. It’s also the home in the Champs Elysées,
which is the only place in Paris I’ve ever been assaulted. I don’t like this place at all. It’s a billionaire’s playground. It’s largely empty. It is lots of nightclubs, and there are a
lot of high-end luxury blah, blah, blahs going on there.
I’m not high-end luxury, man. Maybe someday I’ll have the
money to play around with that. Someday, that’s not who I am.
I just don’t like it. I don’t get along with it. The people that frequent
it tend not to be my vibe. It’s just like there’s no
character, no personality. It’s just outside money being poured in. It’s empty. I believe it’s still the lowest
populated arrondissement by density. It just… Yeah, this is getting the F, absolutely. Which brings us to number 9. The 9th arrondissement, the neuvième,
is an absolute Favorite of mine. We’re getting into some fun stuff. It does span the gamut. It’s nice because it goes from the
old-school Galeries Lafayettes and Printemps, these department
stores that are so historic. Right around opera, the opera is gorgeous. Palais Garnier, I love. That is not part of the neighborhood
I would want to live in. But as you go up from there, you get into
Rue des Martyrs, and there’s this entire neighborhood that’s very, very vibey. Saint-georges is really, really nice,
quiet, but also has some really great food, and is a step away from Pigalle,
which is famous for its nightlife. Great bars, great vibes, lots of fun. The ninth is phenomenal.
I really like it. There’s a lot of great
stuff that I love up there. It’s great. I actually have no real notes, except
maybe no big super noteworthy parks. It’s the beginning of what I tend
to call the Golden Croissant. There are three arrondissements here we’re
going to get into that make up this curve that’s just for food,
especially, phenomenal. Would I live here? In a heartbeat. Is it my absolute favourite? No, but I freaking love it. Which brings us to the 10th, the 10th. So the 10th arrondissement is the
center of this Golden Croissant. The above-ground canal runs through here. So if you’ve seen the canal above-ground,
one of two arrondissements have that going on, and the 10th has it.
The 10th is cozy. It’s not as crowded as the 9th or the
11th, which we’re going to get into. It has some phenomenal food, great
coffee shops, super nice laid-back vibes. The canal, when I first moved here was
still considered a pretty sketchy area, and it has changed completely. Lots of great street
art, just super walkable. Honestly, if you dropped me in the
middle of the 10th, I may never leave it. I might not, which is actually probably
why I shouldn’t live there because the exploration days of Jay in
Paris might come to an end. But as a result, the 10th
is absolutely my S tier. Please, somebody want to
give me an apartment there? I’ll move in tomorrow. I love the 10th arrondissement.
It’s phenomenal. I spend so much time there.
Love it. Which you might be surprised here because
you might have been thinking, Oh, the 11th arrondissement, that’s
going to be my S tier. Honestly, the 11th for going out eating,
drinking coffee, nothing beats it right now, I don’t think, in Paris. The high density and the high
level at which people are playing. All of my favorite things. All of my favorite
things, not my favorite. My number one coffee shop is not
there, but my favorite bars are there. My favorite food is there. A lot of coffee shops that
I absolutely love are there. One of my favorite streets
in the entire city. Jean-Pierre Timbaud is there. Phenomenal, phenomenal
freaking arrondissement. Food, drinks. You can see why it was hard
not to pick it as an S tier. But again, no real parks. The vibe is a little too crowded.
It’s a little bit… It’s becoming trendy.
It’s becoming the new third, right? Some of the people that are moving in
there, I don’t know what’s going on. So the 11th could have been S tier. We’re giving it the A tier, though.
I love it. I spend a ton of freaking time there. Some of these decisions are hard.
Pick between your children. I don’t know. The 12th arrondissement is
another hidden gem. It’s a sleeper. The bottom portion of it is taken
up by train lines, Gare de Lyon. That gets a little bit messy down
towards the river and so forth. There’s some huge government
buildings that are cool. Bercy, you’ve got the Arena, you’ve got a
lot of stuff going on down there, but it’s not the places you
really want to hang out. When you go north of the train lines,
you get in some very quaint, cozy areas. You’ve got Marché d’Aligre, which is wonderful. You have the Coulée Verte, which is this
amazing park that inspired the High Line. It’s a raised railway that
they turned into a park. It used to be a train that left Paris. Now, you can still leave Paris, but
you got to run if you want to do it. Phenomenal area. Very cute, cozy, some great
coffee, some really good food. But again, the food gets better the closer
you get to the 11th, which is not a knock. Just saying, the 12th
would definitely love to live there, but I’m going to have to give it the old
B tier because… Wait, that’s the A tier. Because yeah, not my top, not the
very top of the choice for me. You can see we’re getting… This is quite the distribution
we’re starting here. See what changes when we move into the
13th, so the 13th arrondissement is famous for its Asian influences. It’s unofficially one of the bigger
sections that we would call a Chinatown. Amazing influx of Korean food right now,
and it’s probably the least explored for me on my map. If you go and you look at where I’ve found
space invaders, that is the one area that actually I have the most
that I have not gotten. There are not many left, but still. Last time I was there, wandering around, I
was like, wow, there’s still a lot to explore here.
Take this with a grain of salt. The main thing I have against
it is it’s really far away. It has some great stuff I love, some good
coffee, phenomenal food. I want to explore more as it stands
because of where it is, how far it is, and because it doesn’t quite have everything
I’m looking for, although I’ve got some friends that are working
on me on this one. I’m afraid the 13th
doesn’t quite get to keep this distribution looking as skewed as it is. It’s going to bring us down to C tier,
which you might be surprised to see this in line with the first and the fourth. That might blow your mind, but
the food scene down there, if you like Asian food, I feel like I go out every
day, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, just be very happy for a long time. So there’s that. And there are also a couple of people that
live down there that I love, so it’s getting me closer to friends.
So that’s a good thing. Of course, that brings us to
everybody’s punching bag, the 14th. Now, the 14th arrondissement is the one
that people make fun of all the time. They joke about it being sleepy and
far away, and those things are true. But that’s actually a
very quaint element to it. There’s something about the 14th that I
find to be really charming, the sleepiness of it. The architecture is really interesting,
and the parks, I’m never going to the Catacombs.
People bring that up like, That’s a bonus. Visit that once, sure, but you
wouldn’t want to live there. There are some coffee shops opening up. There’s something happening there,
but it’s happening very slowly. I wouldn’t necessarily want
to end up there as a result. So the 14th, while it’s not going all the
way to F, is going to have to rest at the D tier.
The 15th is also a punching bag. If you’ve seen my interviews,
the 15th gets made fun of. This lower western quarter gets
made fun of, probably the most. And the 15th is no exception. It is, however, really…
I mean, it’s great. People love it.
If you end up there, you love it. It’s related to the 17th in that way. It’s just a little bit
less trendy than the 17th. If you live there,
you’re going to love it. It has Park André Citroën, which is a nice
park, and the hot air balloon you can go up. It’s not really a hot air balloon, but
the balloon you can go up is really cool. That’s not enough for living
there, though, in my opinion. Some great coffee shops, a few great
restaurants that are popping up. They’re more than I’m
sure I need to discover. Very residential, too
sleepy, too far for me. It’s one of those things that I hate to
do, and I’m sorry to those who live there. Sorry, Fox, but for me,
it’s definitely a D tier. It’s getting down there. Not really where I want to live.
The 16th. Oh, my gosh.
The 16th is where I do live. For those of you that don’t know that, I
tried to hide that for a while, and then I realized I did a terrible job of it. Where the 7th is Old Money,
the 16th is new money. It’s a later development,
and so it’s very Haussmannian. It stretches a long ways. Getting down here, nobody goes down
to the Southern end of the 16th. It’s a long ways away. The benefits are there’s
some great parks here. Like is amazing. The downsides are that it’s far away. There’s nothing for food or drinks here. There’s one good cocktail bar here, which
you can find in my guide at parisinmypocket.com Hey.
A couple of places that are fine. There are some coffee shops
that have opened up, finally. But then it’s the people. The attitude here is people have
money and they want you to know it. There’s just this level of entitlement
here that this neighborhood is infamous for. Everybody knows it, except
the people that live here. The people that live
here are oblivious to it. The people who don’t live
here are not oblivious to it. That’s one of the reasons why people
are like, Why do you live there? When I talk about it. It’s also why all the service
staff people that I know that work here hate working here. People don’t treat others as well here. However, there are some
lovely people here. I’m not saying they’re not all. I know some people here
that I really like. They’re the ones fiercely
typing comments right now. There are some lovely people here. Cooper, having my dog, has introduced me
to some great human beings, and so I’m happy to cross paths with them. But the 16th, the Chelsea of
Paris, as it were, not my vibe. I do live here, and
I’m happy to live here. Very, very grateful to live here. But the 16th absolutely gets an F tier for
me because, again, like the 8, it’s just the vibe is all wrong. I’ve learned a lot from living here, and
one of the things I’ve learned is that money can’t buy taste,
and boy, can it not. The 17th is famously super loved by the
people that live there, to the point that if I say anything negative about it, I’m
going to hear about it no matter what I do. Residential, charming, huge
parks, and very up and coming. There’s a lot of great stuff for food,
coffee, whatever that’s popping up there that didn’t used to be the case. If you watch some of my old videos on the
20 in 20 or whatever, I talk about it like, It’s fine. I still hold on to that view, but it has
charmed me more and more every time I go. Very different between the neighborhoods. It also spans quite a lot of real estate,
and it changes a lot between bordering the 16th where it’s still very Haussmannian,
bougey, and then by the time it hits the 18th-It has definitely changed
vibes significantly by that point. 17th, I like it. I don’t like it enough that I
would really prefer to live there. The 17th is getting a C tier. Our distribution is getting a
little bit more sensible as we go. The 18th, charming, favorite. Montmartre is in the 18th. People think of the 18th as Montmartre,
but Montmartre is just a quarter, a quartier in the 18th. If you didn’t know, there are four
quartier in every arrondissement, meaning there are 80 quarters in Paris. Something we can talk about another time. Montmartre, phenomenal,
overrun with tourists. There are corridors within Montmartre
that are still pretty quaint. This is not a knock. If you come, you need to visit, you need
to go to Montmartre, but they’re actually protesting it right now, actively, the
people that live there because they feel like they’re being ignored while
everything’s being streamlined for tourism. This is another conversation to have
about mass tourism, and I’m not scared. I don’t know.
I want to talk about it more. I want to lean into this because
obviously, I make a living to some degree off of tourism, but more conversation
needs to be had around this. When you go down the other side past it to
Lamarck, that is where I’d want to end up. That is the neighborhood, as far as
the 18th is concerned, of my dreams. Great coffee, good food, great nightlife,
very vibey, very local, very village vibes in the 18th. People that live there
have lived there for a long time. They know each other. They generally like each
other, which is great. I love the 18th. Would I live in the 18th? 100%, but it’s pretty far away. It’s far away from most of my friends. I have some friends that live up there. Again, the crowding from tourism,
specifically, is something that, do you really want to step out into that every
weekend and not be able to just go to your local favorite coffee shop without just
walking through hordes of people off of a Viking tour?
Nothing against that, again. But when you live there, it’s a challenge. The 19th is, I think, a super
underrated arrondissement. The 19th has the upper end of the canal,
some phenomenal taphouses, breweries, has the La Villette, which is pretty
cool and honestly often overlooked. A lot of interesting stuff up there. It has Buttes-Chaumont, my
favourite park in the city. Very local vibes. It is a little far away, especially
on the other side of Buttes-Chaumont. When I first moved here, I
was like, How do you get here? This is forever away. But now on my bike, not a problem at all. There’s some really quaint areas up there
as well as phenomenal views of the city. The thing about Montmartre is you do
get some nice views of the city, but you don’t see Montmartre. It’s the same thing we say about you can
go up the Eiffel Tower, but the best views of the city have the Eiffel Tower in it. The 19th solves for that because it’s got
some great views with Montmartre Sacré-Cœur in the distance. I love the 19th. I love the canal up there. I absolutely would love to live up there. It is, again, a little far away. Not all of it is built the same. There are some corridors on the Eastern
side of it that are a little sketchier than others.
Stay alert. But the 19th, I put in
this B tier as well. We’re running out of space here. I’m just going to slap
it in here with the 18th. Boom.
You know what? Screw it.
We’re out of space. I’m going to give it a tier.
I love the 19th. It’s great. I would actually prefer to
live in the 19th over the 18th. Come at me.
Last but not least, the 20th. The 20th is another hidden…
It’s not a hidden gem. It has Père-Lachaise, so a lot of
people will go for that. But once you get past Père
Lachaise, it’s far away. Also, when you get down closer to the
12th, like, Nation, that area, less and less is going on. From as far as I found, in my opinion,
there’s a little bit less going on. However, there’s a lot of really cool up
and coming chefs, places, restaurants, coffee shops, whatever, that are the
hidden gems that you could be the one to find. That’s, I think, what makes the 20th
really fun is exploring it would be great. There’s some cool stuff going on. There’s some cool areas up there.
Really fun. It does start to feel very far away and
harder to get into the center of town. Again, one of my big things is I wanted to
be close to friends, pushes it out there aways. But again, some great coffee shops, some
great local neighborhood vibes that I would absolutely love. I would not mind ending up in the 20th
arrondissement, but because we’re out of space on the B tier and because really, I
already put it here, we’re going to give it this. Oh, yeah, the 19th, we got to edit that
because I guess we made it in A tier. Surprise, surprise.
Twists for everyone. And that’s it.
We’ve done tous les arrondissements. Again, these are just my opinions,
but this is how I look at things. I would love to do a heat map, a full heat
map of where I’d love to live in Paris. I don’t think I would share that
necessarily personally just because I do want to find where I want to
live and I want to figure it out. Maybe I would and I would just lie
about the area that I end up in. I don’t know.
Every arrondissement is unique. It has its own different neighborhoods
within that are more appealing or less appealing as a result of different things.
None of them are perfect. And again, all of them are within Paris,
which is the only place that I want to be. So throw me in any of these. Even the 16th, like I said, I’ll be happy. I’m very happy to be here.
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