Apartment Hunting Abroad

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My First Time on My Own

•  It’s in French. This shouldn’t be a problem for me but I am so rusty that I don’t understand half the things.
• You have to have a job. They want proof of employment in order for you to rent from someone or a company. So there goes me finding a place and then finding a job, now I really, really have to find a job.
•  I don’t know what sites to use. Usually you learn these things through absorption. But in this case I have lived almost my entire life outside of the city, so there is no absorption for me. I guess its time for some research.
• I can’t sign up for something without looking at it in person first. Whenever I finally find something that is exactly what I am looking for, I get sad because I know that I can’t do anything about it until I get there, and it will most likely be gone. And I have no job. So right now all I can do it research and not act on anything until it is July. So much for planning in advance.
• I want to live in the center of Paris. This is where there are the smallest apartments for the most expensive prices and there are not that many of them. Yay!
• The apartments are small. When I say small, I mean the tiniest living space for a Western country. 10 square meters for an apartment under 1000 euros is what I should expect unless I want to move further out of the center of Paris.
• I’m stubborn. I know what I want and I do not want to sacrifice that. I want to be able to have a bathroom in my apartment and a kitchen. I would like to have a loft so that I am not sleeping in my bathroom/kitchen and so that my friends can sleep on the couch below when they visit.