Why did he like Paris so much?

why did he like Paris so much?

Why wouldn't he?

currency exchange rate dollar to franc made living the good life possible
community of expats with connections back to US publications provided the dollars

hairy armpit women and the musky scent of their succulent armpits

Why did she like Paris so much?

This. Paris is pretty great city now (inb4 /pol/), but it is far too expensive to have the literary scene that it did in the past.

I don't think that's the main reason though. Most of the great authors who lived in Paris at some point in the XXth century were wealthy.

Fitzgerald was middle class. He went to Princeton as a scholarship boy, and he worked as a journalist afterward.

Paris is just the most lit city on earth. A lot of writers go there to improve his craft.

She was forced to, arranged marriage by a goddess.

depending on which mythology you read.