Lhe approach of the Olympic Games has brought a new topic of discussion in the dinners of the North of Paris, the large ring around the Stade de France: wondering about one’s plans for the coming summer. The question is generally not intended to assess the interlocutor’s preference for javelin throwing or triple jumping but to find out whether they intend to rent their accommodation between July 26 and August 11, 2024.
These new donors give in all the more easily as the opposition to holding the Games in Paris allows candidates for this unexpected jackpot to cloak themselves in an activist posture. They do not speak of it as a godsend but can present the operation as a plan to escape from hell: they will therefore leave Paris this summer, disgusted by the increase in the metro ticket to 4 euros rather than moved by the prospect of three months’ salary in two weeks. We’re not far from this viral video of Hugues Lavigne playing a Parisian showing an American around his cellar “700 euros every night, enjoy Paris, enjoy the French!” “.
How do we recognize them?
They often don’t need it to make ends meet, but they don’t know it (if they need it, they don’t have the means to bring their apartment up to standard). They decided their ethical line on the issue of subletting after seeing the prices. They are against Airbnb in Paris for the rest of the year. They learned to take wide-angle photos. They pretend not to have set this crazy price on their own (“we were told that was the price”). They think their tenants will be lucky to find their place. If they bought a detached house in a gentrified neighborhood of Pantin, they declare that “it’s an opportunity for Seine-Saint-Denis”.
How they speak
“Laurent will make 15,000 euros in two weeks. » “Anne Hidalgo [la maire de Paris] will still not prevent Parisians from earning a little money…” “I don’t dare put it on Airbnb; for the moment, I put it on a Japanese site. » “I would love to rent my apartment, but I’m too lazy to tidy up my house. » “Anyway, other than gymnastics, there wasn’t any event I wanted to see. » “It pays for our vacation. » “She plans to pay for her new boiler with the Olympics. » “The most important law enforcement event in peacetime doesn’t put you in a festive mood. Why would we stay? » “The people of Cannes, during the Cannes Film Festival, they can have Brad Pitt at their house, there you don’t have Brad Pitt either…” “I don’t see who is going to spend 15,000 euros a week to live in the 10e, but it seems that it is. » “If it helps to open up neighborhoods…” “I’ll set a reasonable price so they don’t expect satin sheets…” “I asked for 17,000 euros per week. Since then, I haven’t had any news. » “All our friends rent fortunes, why don’t you sublet yours? »
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