Five golden rules for moving to Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Meet Céline Flores-Tavukcuoglu. She is a Texan in Paris who runs Céline Concierge, a private concierge service that specializes in Paris.

She shares her five golden rules for if you're thinking to move to Paris (or indeed, France). And even if you're not thinking to make the move, this conversation will shine a light on life in the French capital.

Follow Celine on YouTube here and explore her website here.

After Celine, Marie Segura from My Private Paris talks about the upcoming closure of the Pompidou Center.

This season of The Earful Tower is brought to you by the award-winning travel company My Private Paris, which specializes in tours in Paris, day trips outside Paris, and travel itineraries. See what they offer here.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. Today, you're going to hear from
0:05.2	Celine Flores, from the private concierge service, Celine Concierge. And we're going to be talking
0:10.5	about the five golden rules to moving to Paris. This also works to moving to France. And it also will
0:17.9	work if you're just interested in the French culture and the Parisian way of life because we talk a lot about it.
0:23.9	This show is brought to you by my private Paris.
0:26.6	You'll hear from Marie at the end talking specifically about the Pompidou Centre, which is about to close.
0:34.5	More on that at the end.
0:35.5	First, it's Celine Flores talking about the five golden rules
0:38.6	to moving to Paris. Here's some music from Press Maxim. Celine, welcome to the studio. How you doing?
1:04.3	Doing wonderful. Yes. For having me.
1:06.9	Well, I mean, I'm glad to have you in here, not least because we're going to talk about something that could help a lot of people, helping people move to Paris. But before all that, I just want to check how's everything going with you. I know you've been here for 11 years now. Yes, 11 years and counting. Yeah. I mean, did you ever imagine it would be 11 years? Sort of. When I first
1:30.0	moved to Paris, I was like, I'm here for the long term. Really? And since moving here, I've actually
1:38.3	obtained my French citizenship. Okay, you did it. Yeah. Like three years ago. Do you know what, the sheer admin of doing it puts me off?
1:48.8	That's my biggest.
1:50.1	How long did it take?
1:51.7	It took like a year or a year and a half to gather the paperwork.
1:57.4	Imagine that, a year and a half to gather the paperwork.
2:02.7	Yeah, and you have to live on the paperwork. Imagine that a year and a half to gather the paperwork. Yeah. And you have to live on the territory francs for at least five years before you can even apply. And I gathered
2:11.3	all my documents. I qualified at that point after being here five years. And then, uh, I applied in at the end of
2:19.2	2018 and it took like two, three years actually to get a response. It was like it
2:27.0	all happened right before COVID. Right. So my dossier got delayed like years. So I was on at the time a four year residence permit and I was like,
2:38.9	this is the perfect time I'm going to do it. By the time I get my answer, hopefully it'll be
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