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I feel so grateful for my modest flat, which is still several times bigger than these..... it is a palace in comparison.

The world has gone mad.

Yup, locative property is criminal and most landlords renting those are evil parasites. This should be a major political issue.

Hmmm, I feel like this is just nostalgia... At one time maybe french women reigned, because they probably practiced more hygiene practice than the rest of the west. But the rest of the western world has caught up and there is nothing special over there anymore.

What do you mean 8% return? 500 eur on 110000 does not give that, at least not on a yearly basis…and what about taxes ?

If people were to finally stop hyping up and romanticizing (living in) cities like Paris and NYC, renting out rat holes for 500 EUR wouldn`t be possible. As long as people choose an undignified life in Paris over a decent life in one of the many other beautiful cities here in France, the situation will not change. Blame the AirBnB epidemic if you want, but that, too stems from the hype these cities get from around the globe while the more beautiful cities stay untouched and true to local life. I am not mad at Paris for absorbing most of the tourists and expats so the rest of us can live in peace and dignity elsewhere.

No wonder there is so much depression and people commit so much suicide. This is really really really sad and horrific.

ok these people have way to much stuff i live with half of that is about 3x the size of the space and for those in the usa thats 97 square feet all most 100 thats not that small and the girl dose not have to eat in the bed you have desk

I last visited Paris in 2008, so a while ago but I was really struck by how badly women dressed, I didn't see any chic Parisian ladies, what a disappointment!

I was hoping to retire to Paris, I'm on a budget but in London I was lucky and a few years ago I was able to buy a modest house with a big garden in a great up-and-coming area. I couldn't even live in a flat (apartment), let alone a small one, I would feel in a cage without my own garden. Sadly the more I research the Paris housing market the more hopeless my dream retirement looks, I think I'll have to stay where I and be grateful, and just travel to Paris and France for holidays

A lovely friend of mine invited me to stay with her in Paris a few years ago around Christmas, she lived on the Boulevard St. Michel, I thought, what a great location. What she didn't say was that she and her sister lived in one of these chambres de bonne, it was a terrible holiday, no privacy, no washing facilities, low ceiling, communal toilet, it was really awful. I had to wash myself in pieces in the sink also used to prepare food. These places might be OK for a minimalist person who has access to shower facilities elsewhere (my friend had her grandma living a few doors along, I didn't). It ruined my holiday, and it rained every day. It's so hard when you're poor because when I look at the price of hotels or b&b, I simply can't afford them so I have to stay at home and be an armchair traveller. I'm still grateful for those people who film great locations and post them online.

4% interest on a real estate loan? The US is currently above 7% :(

Wow! It should be a crime to house people in such small spaces and the responsible government for inspections should make sure there are enough inspectors to follow up on these things. It seems there is always something that works against the people, not just in France but everywhere.

They should be paying these ppl to live there! This world is truly a SICK PLACE! This is so creepy! I am extremely claustrophobic and my 860 square-foot crappy trailer! And will soon have to move to an 1 bd crappy apartment that is around 700 sq ft! This is not living. It’s only surviving.! Btw those slumlords belong in prison

Every time I hear Paris is a turistic place to visit, I get disgusted becuse of this and other things happening. Person should be aware of becoming parent in this and other countries. It often becomes a hell, a molesting. It is mess, does not deserve a new life to live and suffer this and others way.

My apartment is 59 m2 but I used to live in 20m2 and I couldn´t ever live smaller..

I have been in Paris in 2018 and we stayed in an apartment of a friend of a friend and I was truly shocked how small the place was and that they have stored their shoes next to the fridge. When we came back to Sofia in our two rooms apartment I felt like we were living in a castle. I was wow our place is not that small after all. I don’t know why they would just stay in such places. I will just move, even switch countries but not live in a shoe box.

I live in a 25m² tiny apartment however it is lofted and has a separate kitchen and nice bathroom, and the ceilings are super high so I can fully stand on the loft part. Costs about a third of my monthly wage.

Slums, that is what those are

Unsure wht the main issue here: €200 is a ridiculously fair price for inner city of a capital like Paris..go to HKSAR whr u can find tiny dark rooms with no windows and ventilation facilities (and no fire escape routes!) at all for much hefty rents and other additional unfair charges..having a window itself is luxurious in such a coveted places, let alone if it gets natural light in, and openable..check out Tokyo's or other SE Asian megacity's property market; incomparable with luxurious Swiss or any other Western prison cells..

When are people going to catch up with the reality that OVER-POPULATION is the root cause of MOST problems?

I rented a 6m2 chambre de bonne for 350 euros from a noblewoman who owned the top floor apartment and the attic floor above in the early 2000s as a student in Paris. It had a bed, a wardrobe, a cold water sink and a hot plate. I shared a toilet down the hall, and next to it outside of my apartment was my private shower room, which was unusual. I knew another student sharing a whole floor of maids' rooms with about 15 people (a mix of immigrants and students) sharing one shower and one toilet, which was rough. The owner of my apartment only rented to international students and was really taking advantage, I think, as she refused to return my 1-month deposit when I moved out despite leaving the place pristine and providing proper notice. It was terrible because it was a lot of money for me, but a drop in the bucket for her.

it's the damn R B n B... that causes all these problems....

I was living till my 5 years with both my parents in 9qm in a two room communal apartment in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad back then) Russia. Now i have 88qm for me alone and live in Germany.

Generally speaking there’s always something wrong when there’s a term that just lumps people together in a hive. 😄 When it‘s „the French girl“, „the clean girl“, „the star boy“ etc. It’s just a fantasy, not reality.

I live in a schoolbus. Essentially the space of two parking spots. It seems bigger in bus form but is about 22 sq m or 240 sq ft. Plus the roof and any racks I have built underneath for storage.

We are two people living in 70 sqm. It’s about perfect size.

How is this even legal??? No bathroom, no kitchen, no toilet...WTF!?!?

The smallest bedroom in my current apartment is approx. legal size for a French apartment. The bigger one I see as being viable as such uu/great planning. Yikes! The place I might be living is about tuuice big enough, maybe a little more, including the loft. It's a storage shed for nouu. The apartment I am in is about 635 sq ft. 58, almost 59, metres, I believe. Most people hate it because it's too small. I think it is badly planned but kind of luxurious for one. I, houuever, often have 3-5

I live in a 10sq meter tiny house on wheels for the last 2 years.

Great video. Merci!

84 m^2 in Austin TX

9 m2 is common in France

Why I won’t be moving to Europe or a city any time soon.

This is insane

Re the intro: 9 square meters is not 17 square feet; it's almost 97 square feet. Big difference.

cities like this need to ban airbnb

I feel badly for the artist. Being able to shower, even if at a gym or something similar, is essential. And the 14-year old probably never goes home. All of the other spaces are doable if you keep possessions down and organized.

70m2, Buenos Aires.

hong kong is even worse, the cage house has been existing for many decades, and now some kunts just creating more and more smaller subdivided room in one unit, the extreme ones are creating the sleeping pods. Thank you for the ducking GREEDY mainland chinese buying all the property around the world and making everything so expensive. We are doomed.

I would hate to live like this. It's insane and should be illegal. I'm sure it happens in most big cities but it doesn't make it right.

Airbnb has truly fucked over European housing markets. Just banning it in big cities would already help things a lot. I really do like the idea of people hosting guests but it should be their primary residence or a dedicated B&B.

imagine 20% of all houses in paris being empty... that's like wiping off four whole arrondissements😅

Oh dear! I thought my place with 3 bedrooms was small at 335 sq metres. I am in Australia and obviously very lucky. I did stay in an air bnb in the 4th androssiment and whilst small in comparison to my place it was much larger than what you have shown. Our prisoners here live much better😥

5 m^2? Thats almost a coffin at that point 0_0

When I first moved to Paris, I lived in the 16th district with my (ex)boyfriend in a 16m2 maid's quarters apartment. It was very expensive but more spacious than I expected! I now live in the suburbs of Paris with my husband, and because he's a teacher, we were able to find a teacher's apartment, which are always 50-70% of the price of a regular apartment. It's 90m2, which is huge even for the suburbs! We're extremely lucky to be here.

At 4.00 the guy needs to organise theres so much clutter, hes got a magazine rack on his pillow . Well you cant stack anything under or on top of that for a start

Before we bought house we had 66m2 now we got over 300m2

Conclusion: imigrants and black people don't buy magazines with black models on the cover. They don't care about representation. I am Polish. When you see a Polish model on the French or American Vogue cover be sure all Polish it-girls and fans will RUN to store and buy at least one copy. It's not the magazine's fault that black models don't sell magazines.

200 E a month, you would pay 1200 USA dollars a month in New York for that.