The world's image of happiness in company was painted in the 18th arrondissement, where the flatshare apartment keeps the scene going: in 1876, Renoir planted his easel at the moulin de la Galette guinguette — his friends carried the big canvas every morning from rue Cortot, posed at the tables, danced the polka — and the Bal du moulin de la Galette fixed the shared Sunday forever, grenadine glasses included. A hundred and fifty years on, Orsay celebrates the painting and the district has not changed its programme: here, the common table is a full-blown institution.
The budget follows the slope more than the address: a three-bedroom flatshare apartment holds around €2,050 a month before charges towards Jules-Joffrin and Ornano, the Abbesses postcard charging clearly above. The neighbours close the loop: the 19th arrondissement extends the gentle prices to the Buttes-Chaumont, the 10th brings the stations and the canal within easy cycling reach.
Do you own a through-plan flat at Jules-Joffrin or an open floor at Ornano? A listing openly marked open to sharing puts you before northern Paris's steadiest public: teams of thirty-somethings attached to their quarter, carers from the Bichat hospital, Abbesses freelancers come down the hill for real square metres — and every flatmate at those tables stays well past the first lease on average. Complete rent, plan, slope: the listing that tells everything lets without a sound, often within the week.
Frequently asked questions
Is the groups' 18th the hill, or something else?
Something else, mostly: the hill makes the photo, the north slope makes the daily life. A flatshare apartment is still found there at prices upper Montmartre no longer practises, with the rue du Poteau market, the Ordener cafés and line 12 as the daily backbone — the postcard stays ten minutes away on foot, free of charge.
Abbesses, Jules-Joffrin, Simplon: three addresses, three lives?
Yes: Abbesses to live inside the scenery, paying for the scenery; Jules-Joffrin for the town-hall-market-metro balance settled teams love; Simplon-Ornano for the most accessible surfaces and neighbours who stay. Many groups start at the Abbesses in dreams and sign at Jules-Joffrin in practice — the budget thanks them.
What share can one expect on the north slope?
One of the most affordable inside Paris proper: the index, for its part, ignores the hill — €744 a room per month per LocService, charges included within — and the flatmate's share, at Jules-Joffrin or Simplon, settles under that mark from three signatories, table-sized living room included in the deal.
The hill day to day: charm or constraint?
Honestly both, to be dosed by each group: stairs and steeply sloping streets toughen the shopping runs and discourage deliveries, tourist flows saturate three famous streets — never the others. A walk-up on the hill side negotiates; the same flat on the north slope gets snapped up. Test the whole journey loaded with shopping bags before you sign anything.
Landlord on the north slope: how do you keep the good tables?
Look after the living room and say so: it is what makes the groups here last. State the complete rent, the storey and the kitchen's condition, add one photo of the six-seat table — the 18th-arrondissement flatmate picks the address where Sunday happens at home, and pays you back in whole years of steady tenancy.
