41-year-old American moved to Paris, pays $2,540/mo to rent her 2-bedroom apartment—take a look inside

In 2017, Adriel Sanders, 41, and her two brothers went to Paris for the first time. That trip changed everything for her.

“It instantly clicked. I was like, ’This is your home. This is where you’re supposed to be in the world and this is where you will always be,” Sanders tells CNBC Make It. “I knew I had to move to Paris.”

Back in the States, Sanders worked as a general counsel for a publicly traded company in Washington D.C., but didn’t enjoy it. She was earning $286,656 a year and lived in a studio apartment where she paid approximately $3,000 a month in rent, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

“What stereotypically happens to most Black women when they work in corporate America is the type of things I experienced my whole career. You’re constantly hitting up against this glass ceiling,” Sanders says.

“I was deeply and truly miserable at the very depths of my little heart and little soul. I knew that it was not sustainable.”