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Expat Life In Paris

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Jul 11, 2010
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Delightful, User-Friendly, And Not So Cher As You Might Think

One week into our month-long family holiday in Paris we’re remembering how delightful, how easy, and, as well, how affordable life in this city can be.

Kaitlin and Jackson have been to four museums already and to the Fete (that is, Carnival) des Tuileries twice. Jack met up with old school friends at the park one evening and was invited to spend the following day with them at Luxembourg Gardens. Kaitlin has reconnected with her old friends in this city, as well, and has been out three nights until nearly 4 a.m. (while I lay in bed listening for the front door and reminding myself that Paris is a very safe place).

After we’ve finished our work each day, Lief and I have taken off for long walks to our favorite places–across the river and down Rue de Rivoli…to l’Isle de la Cite…to Sacre Coeur…

Our body clocks have yet to adjust, so we’re up until 2 a.m. or later, one night until 3 a.m. with friends who live here and who we’re therefore able to see only a couple of times a year. The next morning, dragging ourselves out of bed after we-couldn’t-remember-how-many bottles of wine and not nearly enough sleep, we felt like 20-somethings ourselves (in a good way).

Our first agenda in Paris this month is to reconnect with our lives here. Our second is to give our apartment a face-lift. It’s been two years since we left it for Panama. Since then, it has been the temporary home of a Japanese banker and his wife, a family of Brazilians, and an American couple and their daughter. The place is a little worse for the wear. Some furniture must be replaced, and the living room and dining room need new coats of paint.

We’ll spend tomorrow morning at BHV, the Paris department store that, in its sous-sol, is home to the biggest hardware story in the city. We’ll shop for paint, brushes, spackle, putty knives, and wood glue, all in one spot, with the help of friendly, knowledgeable staff. Then we’ll have everything bundled for delivery in the afternoon, so Lief can get to work.

We won’t have time to go grocery shopping today, but that’s not a problem in this city, where nearly every grocery store, big and small, also delivers, often free, depending on the size of your order.

We shopped yesterday for a new kitchen table and chairs, which were delivered within four hours of our purchase, just as the clerk had indicated they would be.

After five hours of walking from shop to shop, errand to errand yesterday, our legs were giving out. When we were ready to return to the apartment, we had to travel but one block to a Metro stop, where we boarded the train for a quick ride that took us within two blocks of home.

Paris is delightful and easy, we’re being reminded…and, as well, not necessarily expensive.

This visit, of course, we’re enjoying an exchange rate advantage. Our U.S. dollars have more than 20% more buying power in this city today than they did two years ago when we left. That makes all these apartment improvements easier for Lief to stomach.

But it’s more than that. The price of a Metro ticket has increased, about 10%. That means a carnet of 10 tickets is 12 euro today, versus 10.80 euro when we left…and that each Metro ride, therefore, costs you but 1.20 euro. About half the cost of a Subway ticket in New York…and that to get from one end of the city all the way to the other if you’re interested.

Other things are the same cost as when we left or even slightly less. The poulet roti from the butcher on our street (which we all agree is the best roast chicken anywhere in the world)…a bottle of water or a fresh-made crepe from a street vendor…a head of lettuce from the grocery store…bathroom mats…kitchen towels…these things are all as affordable as we remember. Some things we shop for are more affordable than in Panama City.

Today our plan isn’t shopping but picnicking, on the little point that juts out into the Seine from l’Isle de la Cite. It’s a perfect day for it.

Kathleen Peddicord

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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