Paris
When I moved to Paris from the US in the winter of 2024, I rather foolishly believed the transition would be easier.After all, despite needing a visa to live here as a non-EU citizen and the main spoken language being French, Paris itself is not that different from my hometown…
When I moved into my 9-square-meter, or about 97-square-foot, micro-apartment in Paris’ 17th arrondissement in October 2025, it was supposed to be temporary.I was leaving an unsustainable living situation as an au pair, and needed affordable, emergency housing. By chance, I found an available apartment that was within my small…
Nearly two and a half years ago, in January 2024, I crammed my most essential belongings into three suitcases and left behind the only life I have ever known to start a new one halfway across the world, in Paris.Jaded by corporate America and wanting a change of environment, I…
Mistral AI’s first summit felt less like a startup conference and more like a campaign rally for Europe’s AI ambitions.The French AI startup, founded just three years ago, packed Paris’s Le Carrousel du Louvre — the event space beneath the Louvre’s famous glass pyramid — on Thursday with executives from…
