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Hi, it's Cyprien.
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I know that it's been a while since I've done any videos for my blog
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It's been what...uh...since 2004.
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Really...
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It's been a few weeks since I moved apartments.
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I will show you my technique for getting an apartment in Paris.
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To have an apartment in Paris, it's really simple
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You just need to do one thing
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A LOT OF LUCK.
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Me, I lived in an apartment that was 20 square meters for two.
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You take out bathroom and the furniture and what's left?
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One square meter of "vital living space".
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It's good. A square meter.
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Excuse me, your chair is in my vital living space.
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Yup, I've counted the floorboards.
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You have 7 and I have 5.
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To becomes aware of the state of the housing market at Paris...
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That's a sentence with big words.
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[apocalyptic housing market music]
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Well, to realise how crazy it is you need to be there for open house.
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In my old apartment it took 5 minutes.
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In that time, there were three visits.
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It's a good thing then that the apartment was so small
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The visits were faster
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Excuse me, is this the open house?
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Thanks, bye.
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It makes me laugh when people take pictures.
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Of my apartment...
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I'll take a photo.
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It's good, thanks.
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I'm happy that I'm not living in that room anymore
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There was enough vital living space
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but the walls were made of tracing paper.
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When my neighbours talked I thought I was part of the conversation
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Can you bring the flour please?
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I don't have any more flour, sorry.
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Listen to that!
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The neighbour thinks we're talking to him!
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How lame!
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Actually I can hear everything-
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He can hear everything!
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Lame.
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You need to know that landlords
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are the most paranoid people on the planet
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more than the kid from Sixth Sense that sees dead people
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You need to sign a million insurance forms
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to make sure that you've properly paid your rent
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I had to sign a form to say that I would pay my rent
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even in a natural disaster
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like when a meteor falls to Earth and all human life is destroyed.
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Just in case.
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What is this paper? What did I just sign?
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That's over now. I moved.
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Hold up.
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I've got a bathtub.
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It reminds me of my vital living space.
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It's good.
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As you've noticed, I haven't decorated much.
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It isn't very personalized I think.
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I have frames with nothing in it.
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I don't know this person.
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I don't have a cat either.
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I have a problem with this apartment
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because of the locks.
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Every time I see it, I say WHY?!
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WHY?!
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Maybe the last tenant was a leprechaun.
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Maybe that explains my balcony.
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They could have the whole family on there.
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I don't know.
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That's I have to update you on.
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I don't have a Facebook page
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but I have Twitter and a blog.
