WEBVTT 00:00:00.499 --> 00:00:02.490 Hi, it's Cyprien. 00:00:02.490 --> 00:00:05.135 I know that it's been a while since I've done any videos for my blog 00:00:05.135 --> 00:00:07.947 It's been what...uh...since 2004. 00:00:08.684 --> 00:00:09.825 Really... 00:00:09.825 --> 00:00:12.489 It's been a few weeks since I moved apartments. 00:00:12.489 --> 00:00:16.851 I will show you my technique for getting an apartment in Paris. 00:00:16.851 --> 00:00:19.620 To have an apartment in Paris, it's really simple 00:00:19.620 --> 00:00:20.913 You just need to do one thing 00:00:22.913 --> 00:00:24.457 A LOT OF LUCK. 00:00:24.457 --> 00:00:27.401 Me, I lived in an apartment that was 20 square meters for two. 00:00:27.401 --> 00:00:30.173 You take out bathroom and the furniture and what's left? 00:00:31.312 --> 00:00:33.142 One square meter of "vital living space". 00:00:33.142 --> 00:00:35.167 It's good. A square meter. 00:00:35.167 --> 00:00:38.094 Excuse me, your chair is in my vital living space. 00:00:38.371 --> 00:00:41.445 Yup, I've counted the floorboards. 00:00:41.445 --> 00:00:43.925 You have 7 and I have 5. 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:49.972 To becomes aware of the state of the housing market at Paris... 00:00:49.972 --> 00:00:51.610 That's a sentence with big words. 00:00:51.610 --> 00:00:56.069 [apocalyptic housing market music] 00:00:56.069 --> 00:00:59.738 Well, to realise how crazy it is you need to be there for open house. 00:00:59.738 --> 00:01:01.850 In my old apartment it took 5 minutes. 00:01:01.850 --> 00:01:05.046 In that time, there were three visits. 00:01:07.860 --> 00:01:10.078 It's a good thing then that the apartment was so small 00:01:10.078 --> 00:01:11.788 The visits were faster 00:01:11.788 --> 00:01:13.864 Excuse me, is this the open house? 00:01:16.598 --> 00:01:17.326 Thanks, bye. 00:01:17.326 --> 00:01:20.250 It makes me laugh when people take pictures. 00:01:20.665 --> 00:01:22.083 Of my apartment... 00:01:22.083 --> 00:01:23.795 I'll take a photo. 00:01:28.516 --> 00:01:29.939 It's good, thanks. 00:01:30.648 --> 00:01:33.953 I'm happy that I'm not living in that room anymore 00:01:33.953 --> 00:01:37.455 There was enough vital living space 00:01:37.931 --> 00:01:43.768 but the walls were made of tracing paper. 00:01:43.768 --> 00:01:46.761 When my neighbours talked I thought I was part of the conversation 00:01:46.761 --> 00:01:49.410 Can you bring the flour please? 00:01:49.410 --> 00:01:51.828 I don't have any more flour, sorry. 00:01:51.828 --> 00:01:52.833 Listen to that! 00:01:52.833 --> 00:01:54.735 The neighbour thinks we're talking to him! 00:01:54.735 --> 00:01:55.623 How lame! 00:01:57.038 --> 00:01:57.788 Actually I can hear everything- 00:01:57.788 --> 00:01:58.538 He can hear everything! 00:01:58.538 --> 00:01:59.290 Lame. 00:02:01.365 --> 00:02:02.978 You need to know that landlords 00:02:02.978 --> 00:02:06.231 are the most paranoid people on the planet 00:02:06.231 --> 00:02:08.739 more than the kid from Sixth Sense that sees dead people 00:02:08.739 --> 00:02:10.401 You need to sign a million insurance forms 00:02:10.401 --> 00:02:12.163 to make sure that you've properly paid your rent 00:02:12.163 --> 00:02:14.927 I had to sign a form to say that I would pay my rent 00:02:14.927 --> 00:02:16.699 even in a natural disaster 00:02:16.699 --> 00:02:19.965 like when a meteor falls to Earth and all human life is destroyed. 00:02:19.965 --> 00:02:21.220 Just in case. 00:02:22.897 --> 00:02:25.217 What is this paper? What did I just sign? 00:02:25.217 --> 00:02:28.078 That's over now. I moved. 00:02:28.078 --> 00:02:28.530 Hold up. 00:02:29.268 --> 00:02:30.267 I've got a bathtub. 00:02:35.131 --> 00:02:38.300 It reminds me of my vital living space. 00:02:38.300 --> 00:02:39.557 It's good. 00:02:40.973 --> 00:02:45.205 As you've noticed, I haven't decorated much. 00:02:45.205 --> 00:02:48.217 It isn't very personalized I think. 00:02:50.878 --> 00:02:52.848 I have frames with nothing in it. 00:02:52.848 --> 00:02:56.078 I don't know this person. 00:02:56.078 --> 00:02:58.291 I don't have a cat either. 00:02:58.291 --> 00:03:00.704 I have a problem with this apartment 00:03:00.704 --> 00:03:02.659 because of the locks. 00:03:02.659 --> 00:03:05.669 Every time I see it, I say WHY?! 00:03:08.820 --> 00:03:09.720 WHY?! 00:03:11.459 --> 00:03:15.307 Maybe the last tenant was a leprechaun. 00:03:16.137 --> 00:03:18.928 Maybe that explains my balcony. 00:03:25.572 --> 00:03:29.092 They could have the whole family on there. 00:03:29.092 --> 00:03:30.154 I don't know. 00:03:30.154 --> 00:03:32.868 That's I have to update you on. 00:03:32.868 --> 00:03:34.376 I don't have a Facebook page 00:03:34.376 --> 00:03:36.335 but I have Twitter and a blog.