Paris guides
The rest of this section answers “which area”. These answer the questions that come before it: what things cost, how renting works here, how the transport network actually behaves, and what to sort out in which order.
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Moving
Moving to Paris from the UK: visas and the 90-day trap
Ninety days in any 180 is the hard limit, it is counted automatically now, and living here needs a visa applied for before you leave.
8 min read
Renting
Renting in Paris: rent control, charges and the things nobody warns you about
An advertised rent above the legal ceiling is unlawful and recoverable. How to check, and what else is on the bill.
7 min read
Money
What you need to earn in Paris
A French gross is not a British gross. What the payslip clears, and the three-times-rent rule that decides whether you get the flat.
7 min read
Renting
The dossier and the guarantor: how to actually get a Paris flat
The flat is rarely the hard part. The dossier is, and the guarantor rule is the single thing most likely to stop you.
8 min read
Transport
Getting around Paris: Navigo, zones and the périphérique
The flat-fare Navigo changed where it makes sense to live. The métro extensions are changing it again.
7 min read
Every checkable figure in these guides carries a source and a review date, and the tables inside them read the same datasets as the rest of the site, so a rent revision updates the guides in the same deploy. Where a figure could not be corroborated against a source we were willing to publish, the guide says to check it rather than quoting it.