Anywho ... it doesn't exactly harmonize with your typical Haussmannian, Parisian architecture.
So the inevitable outcry led to an inevitable ban on skyscrapers within Paris city limits. This, inevitably, led to the clustering of skyscrapers just outside the city limits. And most prominently, it led to La Défense which is where my office is. It's not a very Parisian looking place. It's as if someone said: you know this would be a great place for a bunch of skyscrapers! So they laid down a huge pedestrian courtyard and BOOM - Instant Financial District ...
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I rented a bike and rode it across the Siene, up through the Bois du Bologne and into La Defense on a Sunday morning. There's actually a nice little residential community snuggled right next to La Defense. Wouldn't be a bad place to live it you worked at the towers, and the heart of Paris is just across the bridge down de Gaulle. Did you guys look there before settling on Montparnasse?
That was probably Neuilly-sur-Seine. We didn't really check it out on our house hunting trips. We wanted to be in central Paris with a little more, you know, joie de vivre.
I'm always looking for a little more je ne sais quoi, myself.
Personally, I could go for a good omelette du frommage about now.
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