It’s been over a year now that Olivier & I have been battling with our upstairs neighbors, Hedwig & the Banshee. We’ve talked, argued & pleaded with them.
They whined, complained & threatened to escalate the situation. We filed complaints with the Paris police – their shitty habits are just too damn annoying & disruptive. Although, to be fair…the majority of people living in our building don’t seem to be familiar with how to be a good neighbor.
It’s not just the neighbors in the building. As I sit here writing this, I’m listening to the screams & chatter coming from the elementary school & junior high just behind our building.
Eh…our apartment is too small, anyway.
We’ve repainted all of the rooms & repaired all of the floors.
We got in touch with an agency here in Paris that will rent the apartment from us & will use it to house families in need.
Ok, then…all we had to do was find a place that we wanted to move to. Sure, we had to peruse a couple of shitholes…like the two apartments last weekend: each room a different color, paint peeling off of the walls, weird stickers slapped randomly on the walls…a carpeted bathroom…a bright purple room with creepy teddy bears stuck to the walls.
The worst was the bedroom with the bright pink & orange striped wallpaper…there were mirrored tiles arranged on the wall & suddenly, I could hear porn music playing in my head.
Luckily, we found something a little more…subtle.
Next weekend, the movers will come & we’ll be heading out to our new apartment in Sucy-en-Brie. Not a huge move – it’s only about 10 miles from the center of Paris, but it’s far enough that there are trees.
Trees get me pretty excited these days – I haven’t seen much of them during the past couple of years that I’ve spent living in Montmartre. Though, sometimes there are tourists running around here that are just as smart as any tree.
[tags]Paris, Montmartre, Sucy-en-Brie, neighbors, apartment, moving[/tags]
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Nothing sucks more than having bad neighbours. My neighbours aren’t the best but cheap rent is cheap rent… Good luck with the move and hope the new neighbours are much more considerate! 🙂
Horray for moving! Sounds like fun! Good luck!
Good luck with the move. And hopefully you have better neighbors now.
You can probably lean up against a tourist & have a poop, though…sort of like pooping in the woods, except it’s a tourist…in the city.
Tourists are as immobile as trees, and they suck oxygen instead of producing some. Trees are better.