Boomer Retirement Abroad - Paris France and 90+ Ways You Know You're Becoming French!

I'd Rather be in Paris

Some may know that my most favorite city in the world is PARIS. Originally my retirement plan was to head off to Paris and set up a Parisian life there. After several years of investigating I found that sadly, Paris is much too expensive for me to move to in my retirement years.  But, I still LOVE Paris, so I regrouped and came up with a new plan.  Instead, I'll live in a more affordable country which will allow me to put away enough money to visit Paris at least once a year. To be honest, that works out much better for me as the winters in Paris are dreadful.

Anyway, while I was in Paris I attended an event called Paris Soirees, hosted by Patricia Laplante-Collins.  I had a great time. An invited speaker + lots of friendly international people to meet + great food in a 'real' Paris apartment!! It's a perfect meet up for ex-pats who live in Paris or if you're just visiting and you have some time. Stop by and check it out.

The upcoming Soiree is Sunday, January 19. The featured guest speaker will be author, Shari Segall.  Shari Leslie Segall, has been in Paris since 1985 and is the author of France-themed books and articles, teaches English and cross-cultural communication at the prestigious Institut des Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) and at the French Military Academy. She is the founding director of Foreign Affairs, which provides linguistic and cross-cultural training and creates English-language documents for executives.

Books will be available for signing and purchase

From Shari:

"The French say that foreigners can never truly “become” French--no matter what legal status is inscribed upon what identity papers they carry around in their France-based wallets. Nor might newly minted citizens or official residents wish to swap their own cultural manners and mentalities for those of the local waiter who serves them their morning café au lait et croissant (to say nothing of totally being able to). But if you’re here long enough, your adaptation mirrors, those Escher drawings where columns of black geese or fish on the left fly or swim straight across the page, migrating and mutating by imperceptible degrees, melting into and finally becoming their white counterparts on the right. To a greater or lesser degree, whether you expected to or not, one day you realize that you’re crossing to the other side. How do you know that you’ve arrived?"

for more info and reservations 

visit Patricia's website http://www.parissoirees.com 

or 

reserve on parissoirees@gmail.com