Living In Paris

Some places in Paris, France, might make great neighborhoods, but have inconvenient Metro stations that don’t make them worth the trouble. I take the train much more than the bus, so easy access to a Paris train station is high on my list of must-haves. Here are the neighborhoods I would personally avoid in Paris [...]

Just when I started to think people were exaggerating about the Paris Metro police and their fines, I was stopped by them three times in 2 days and asked to present a valid metro ticket.

If you’re living in Paris for any extensive amount of time, you should get a Navigo Decouverte pass for the Paris Metro.  It’s so much more convenient to swipe a pass rather than deal with paper tickets — or worse yet, deal with cash or coins to buy paper tickets — every time you want [...]