Today, we spent the day looking at four flats in the 16th arrondissement in Paris. I'm all European now that I call apartment "flats" ... there you go. There are a bunch of differences, of course, with the apartments here. First, the kitchens are in their own rooms with a door. The "open concept" is not a thing here. Also, the bathrooms are usually separated out. In one apartment, we found a shower room with a vanity connected to one of the bedrooms. Then a toilet room across the hall. And a full bathroom with toilet, shower and vanity the next door down. And, of course, built-in closets are not common. Free-standing wardrobes are what's used and, in some places, they take up a lot of space. We liked what we were seeing, but we're just getting started. Location is going to be important, so we're finalizing school before we make any commitments to a place. The important thing is now we know what a typical apartment looks like, and what we really n...