Express 15 Min Review of Barcelona: food, money, lifestyle, accommodation

[@richiethecat7596]

thank you for this informative video!! ♥✨ barcelona 🙌

[@ElizabethLip]

@@richiethecat7596 ♥️🤍❤️ thank youuu

[@seburgos]

Great vídeo! 🥰

[@ElizabethLip]

thank you so much! 💖

[@kateejott]

Ahhh so happy to have found your channel:))

[@ElizabethLip]

thank you!! i'll keep posting more!!! ♥ enjoy

[@BeastClara248]

Very nice review video

[@ElizabethLip]

@@BeastClara248 thank you so much ♥️ i’m glad to hear you enjoyed watching it

[@ElizabethLip]

@@BeastClara248 thank you so much for your comment ❤️

[@gra795]

salaries are crazy low and rents are high. so yea.

[@ElizabethLip]

@@gra795 unfortunately yes…. that’s the way it is. at least now

[@danigonzalez4299]

Yeah. And expats with bigger incomes. Nothing about the city government.

[@Thesuperwoman3000]

Interesting perspective! Thanks for sharing ! But I don’t agree with your point that local people speak Spanish, most of the people are talking in Catalan. So if we as Expats really wanna integrate we should learn Catalan

[@ElizabethLip]

hi! i agree with you, i should have said catalan however knowing spanish is better than nothing, even in catalonia 😅 but yes, i agree with you, that would have been the best advice

[@gra795]

curious what provider for health insurance you have? I have adeslas.

[@ElizabethLip]

@@gra795 mapfre!

[@ZhannaKessel]

It was super interesting and informative!! I love Barcelona 😍

[@ElizabethLip]

@@ZhannaKessel i’m glad you liked it!! hope you can come visit me soon here ♥️♥️♥️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🥹🥹🥹

[@sayedsanobar6423]

Moving to bcn next week! This is really helpful.

[@ElizabethLip]

oh hey new neighbour! 😄 welcome!!

[@danigonzalez4299]

Eixample no gràcies. Sous baixos, preus de vivenda altissims. Expats son un problema greu. La part nord (Sant Gervasi) es on viuen els locals. No hi volen expats i es caríssim

[@ElizabethLip]

so what's your conclusion? you're saying globalization should miraculously avoid affecting specifically barcelona city center?

[@ElizabethLip]

i love sant gervasi as much as i love l'eixample. both great districts to live in but moderately expensive

[@danigonzalez4299]

​@@ElizabethLip as you say it's a very complex issue. But the massification we've got is not even normal. Well there are many ways to cut that off. One, a big important one, is repeating what Amsterdam is doing: You can only buy a property there and you have to live on it for 3 years. That would solve the issue of so many black stone and companyes like that that have so many apartments in the city out of use. Second one is, of course, rise up the salaries. The minimum salary in Spain 2 years ago was around 650€. Now it's 1100€. It needs to standardize at least as much as in France. What it can happen is that everything can rise as much as we will but salaries don't. After that, we need to care more about our compatriots and not only go for the money. If a particular is renting, it's important to know who are you renting to/selling to and will to not only go to the bigger offer. Look, we were, in Catalunya 6M people until 2 years ago. We are now 8M people. That is too many people. Why? Because the infraestructures (RENFE, speed ways) are always busy. This is not even normal. Also is not normal that even in Berga a rent of an apartment is 1200€. That happens because we have pushed people out of Barcelona. First to mainly Terrassa Sabadell and LH. But now, everywhere. That needs to stop immediately. It's so funny because here we had a law that helped prices to not rise until 3-4 years ago when the Spanish Gob decided to decline it and generate their own law. That law doesn't help. There are So many things that need to change. But not everyone can live in Our city. And yes, it belongs to the ones that have been born here before anybody else. That's true. It can not be that locals are pushed out not only of out neighborhoods but neither our city. Globalization is an issue. Also cheap flight companies that polute our city so hard. I would also cut off half of the flights in and out of the city even if that means paying more for a ticket. Of course I'd cut off the whole Cruise industry in our city as it polluted and overmassificates a city overnassificated and rubbed out of over tourism for decades. About massive inmigration, many things need to be done. But the most important one is to allow countries under development to grow in a way that their citizens don't need to fear for their life and that they could live a normal life and eat 3 times a day. Yes, that actually doesn't happen in many countries and lots of this people are just flying away (which is normal). If we can help them stay home, with a good life, that'd also help us in the way that space is not unlimited and we will not move out. And then, we see what to do next and how to continue. But in Europe we have the land that we have and not everyone should leave they own city/country in order to fulfill their wills. And for the expats, I am sorry but yes you are running many people's way of living. I'd put laws that would impede so many to come so easy. Or, at least, will put laws for you to accommodate to our way of living. Our language/s (learning them should be a must by law) and our culture. Because we do but need so many hyper overpriced coffee specialty shitty places but more Xarcuteries de Barri with a place we're to have a wonderful esmorzar. We should not be so of a sell outs and stop looking as much for the money rather than to whom. Yes it is complex. But we as society need to work on this right now before it's too late and our traditions and culture are being runned over and replaced. That is something we can not allow to happen, at all. And we have to prevent it from happening at all costs. And by having a replacement of population from locals to expats and foreigners in the city, it's starting to happen really big. That can't be, sorry. Yes, it's complex. Of course it is, and it's also urgent to change it.

[@danigonzalez4299]

​@@ElizabethLipI don't like Eixample at all xD It's the highspeed avenue opened to reach the old towns of Sarrià, Gràcia and Horta for example. And it's full of expats and shops dedicated to expats 😅

[@ElizabethLip]

@@danigonzalez4299 well first of all thank you for such an extended answer secondly i hope barcelona’s gvmt will find find a solution however it is definitely not a problem of tourists or expats that the local laws and economy operate as they do making it hard for the locals to live in here. so “go home guiris” protests is a bullshit solution cos it won’t change anything unless the gvmt finally pays attention to it and starts to intervene in a meaningful way

[@nihadkasumovic9603]

❤🎉

[@ElizabethLip]

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[@graells8318]

hahahahaha 3 years here and you don't even mention Catalans in your video, how lovely. Better that way right, if you had to say something about Catalans, probably harsh. At 07:50 you caught on video a man hiding something in the bushes hahahah Everything important in Sapin is in Madrid, the real parliament where laws are made, the lobbies, the banks, the finance world, where the important decisions are made and where the Spanish state concentrates their resources at. You and your expat mate should look into going there.

[@ElizabethLip]

3 years? idk where you heard it! we've been only here for 1,5 😂 and thanks for your comment, we'll def think about our next moves somewhere else with my "expat mate" lol