I thought it’d be a good idea to answer some of the most common questions I’m asked. We can put them in two lists, questions asked by the French and questions asked by Americans (or more generally, non-French, since a majority of my friends here are either not French or not of French ancestry). The top few are asked almost every time I meet someone new. Yet I never get tired of answering the good ones.
So the number one question I get asked by both French and non-French is:
“Why did you decide to move to France?”
I had been to Europe twice on vacation, both of them starting in France (and the second one ending in France). Of all the big cities I saw (London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Rome) I preferred Paris. I had been living in the same place for 9 years. I didn’t really plan on staying there after the university but a girlfriend and a good job kept me there. And after 9 years I had had enough. I wanted to live in a big city and I wanted to learn a foreign language. So the foreign language part ruled out New York and London, leaving France and Germany. And France won. Actually, Paris won. And when I first moved here, I proclaimed that I’d never move back.
And there you have it. Pretty simple really. Just pick a dream and work on it until it happens. The “how” will be detailed in a future post. Just follow the tag FAQ.
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