I married my dreamy French husband in but we first met in in high school friends only relationship. He was a foreign exchange student spending one year abroad and just happened to magically end up sitting next to me in high school speech class. We were very good friends through that year and then he returned to France.
He stayed in touch with me via email because, he always remembered my birthday which was: the same day, month and year as his sisters. Then 18 years later Facebook changed our lives. In he found my mom on FacebookTM and messaged her to see if I was on there as well. Well now you get the picture. From the moment he friended me on Facebook and we then video chatted. He was then, at my door step 4 weeks later. Moving to Paris to live my romantic love story was a dream.
My husband had already owned a flat near his work in Boulogne just next to the 16 th. Soon we were a family of one and two on the way so change needed to happen. I love green space, clean air and soon found out that living in a flat inside the densely populated city was not for me. We searched areas west of Paris because our family needed bilingual schools that were affordable to us local people not on large ex-pat contracts. I also needed to not feel secluded from life and feel alone. We searched many west suburbs within the 92 and 78 and I fell in love with Vaucresson in the It is a green place with the Rueil Malmaison woods and all the natural landscapes around the small neighborhoods.
It just felt good to breathe cleaner air! I felt comfortable raising our family here. Public transportation is close to the city via Line L, with La Defense only 15 minutes away and Saint Lazare, 25 minutes. We enjoy going into the city near Saint Lazare but, neither my husband nor I work in there.
He works in Nanterre and I work from the house doing consulting. The downtown area near the Gare has cute little shops, a couple bakeries, florist and a lovely market. As you walk towards the forest you see huge soccer fields and a large new local sports center.
