When Kelly Simon co-founded the website “Paris, je te quitte” (Paris, I’m leaving you) five years ago, she was in her mid-20s and already felt leaving the French capital would be a rite of passage. “After spending your 20s in Paris, you start thinking about your future: first child, more space, be closer to nature . . . what’s next after Paris?” she said. The website, originally a blog, but now offering job listings, property finding services and coaching, has found an eager audience each month of tens of thousands whose longing to escape is showing up in the data: inner Paris is shrinking.
When Kelly Simon co-founded the website “Paris, je te quitte” (Paris, I’m leaving you) five years ago, she was in her mid-20s and already felt leaving the French capital would be a rite of passage. “After spending your 20s in Paris, you start thinking about your future: first child, more space, be closer to nature . . . what’s next after Paris?” she said. The website, originally a blog, but now offering job listings, property finding services and coaching, has found an eager audience each month of tens of thousands whose longing to escape is showing up in the data: inner Paris is shrinking.
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