41-year-old American moved to France, lives on $3,633 a month
When Adriel Sanders He first visited Paris in 2017 and felt at home.
Sanders, CNBC’ye Make Make, “instantly clicked. I, ‘This is your house. This is the place you need to be in the world and this is where you will always be.”
According to the documents reviewed by CNBC, Sanders returned several times while Washington continued to work as a general advisor for a public company on DC, earned $ 286,656 a year and lived in a studio apartment.
“I haven’t always liked the expectation of working and working at all times, and I will probably be one of the only lawyers who say it, but I don’t think it is intellectually stimulating,” Sanders says. “I was deep and really miserable in the depths of my little heart and my little soul. I knew it wasn’t sustainable.”
Sanders says he feels at home when Paris first visits.
Jai Nima Idowu from Jado images
Three years after the first trip to Paris, Sanders left his job, broke his rent and started a French visa. He landed in the city the day before France closed its borders due to Covid-19 pandemi.
“The slowness of the world meant that France was accelerating. “I came the day before locking, so there was no one, and it was a complete dystopia.”
When Sanders first moved, he lived in several short -term rent before signing a rental apartment for a single bedroom. He paid 1,550 euros or 1.815 USD and lived for two years. Since he left this apartment, Sanders has been living in an apartment with a two -bedroom with a two -bedroom, which he paid $ 2,540 per month.
Since Sanders had signed a rent for what is called “unmoieved apartment”, it meant that he had to spend money to buy his own kitchen cabinets, stoves and washing machine. He predicts that he spent about $ 5,000 in the kitchen and is close to $ 10,000 to make the place really feel like a home.
When Sanders first moved, the rent was $ 2,319. Since then it has risen to $ 2,540.
Jai Nima Idowu from Jado images
In addition to the rent, Sanders, cables, internet, tenant insurance, dry cleaning, electricity and gas, private health insurance, grocery store and a navigo shipping card, such as home invoices, such as an average of 933 euros or 1,093 USD spends an average.
It also has an annual subscription to Louvre, a second museum card that can add 95 euros per year and 50-100 euros per year. Sanders also pays a guarantor service that allows him to continue to rent in France, pays 1,069.20 euros per year or about $ 1,252.
Now Sanders has been living in his apartment for more than three years, plans to visit the search for a house to buy again. He began to look two years ago, but he stopped after visiting many places he thought Overpriced was.
Sanders, “Recently on the advice of friends who have bought in Paris, I’m determined again. Finding the right place, but I’m tired of renting in Paris.” Says. I hopelessly need more space and I want to buy a dog. “
When the Sanders rented the two -bedroom apartment, he spent about $ 5,000 to make it ready for use.
Jai Nima Idowu from Jado images
While Sanders wants to put roots in Paris, he hopes to buy a house in the rural area.
“I don’t think it would be nice to put a dog like a gold hunter in the center of Paris, so that’s my dream, or he says.
Living in France inspired Sanders to maintain their dreams of establishing their fashion brand Adriel Felise. Sanders said he bought $ 200,000 from his business account and $ 70,000 from his personal savings and put it in a new business initiative. This helps to finance your dreams of income from the creation of money and content.
Orum I love fashion, and now I am very happy to be open to this and I can be open because I have been dealt with as something that has made me less serious for a long time, or he says.
Sanders finances the production of first samples and prototypes, but hopes to collect at least $ 2 million and make his 10 -piece collection ready for launch in 2026.
Sanders does not plan to return to the United States.
Jai Nima Idowu from Jado images
While Sanders was working as a lawyer, he would walk around the office building and dreamed of starting a fashion line, and now he still doesn’t feel real to see that he was implemented.
“I still have a piece of pushing and pushing more, so I don’t know if I’m completely ready to say that I’m proud, but I actually feel that I’m happy, which for a long time, and it’s great for me,” he says.
“My goal and desire to women – especially black and brown women – to follow their dreams and goals. It doesn’t matter when they do. The most important thing is that they are brave, to act wisely and to go for it.”
Sanders says he doesn’t think he’s going to go back to living in the United States, since Sanders have been in France for nearly five years.
“I can’t live there. I can’t work like this. “I wish I had the courage to act earlier. I wish I had the courage to do this after the first period of the Faculty of Law, or to register with the business school and to do something different that would offer me more options.”
Transformations from Euro to USD were made on July 23, 2025 using the Oanda conversion rate using 1 euro to 1.17 USD. All the amounts rolled to the nearest dollars.
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