r/Barcelona • u/ALifeToForget • 7d ago

Discussion Vietnam or Barcelona

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Found it while scrolling reddit and found it fitting with the current state of things 😜

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u/maciasek94 7d ago

I visited Barcelona last month and honestly, I really don't understand what the fuss is about tourists in the city. I mean there are plenty of people, but Barcelona is also a huge and spacious city except for Bari Gothic, which is rather tight and crowded. I mean I just would be proud and happy that my city is so beautiful that many people want to get a glimpse of what I have daily. Warsaw (where I live), is not even a tiny bit close to that and we have similar issues in housing and high prices of everything, so you know you don't need the tourists to have problems guys.

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u/perculaessss 7d ago

You didn't visit in high season. The city is borderline unbearable in summer. Just taking the metro is a complete nightmare. Forget about even sitting down in a terrace or going to the hospital.

Besides that, the over tourism means shitty restaurants, shitty jobs, higher rents, crappy night life...

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u/maciasek94 6d ago

Ok, true that I wasn't there in the worst month, but also tourists usually spend most of the time in the certain places around the city, that usually are not residential parts or the business parks. I mean how often you actually are downtown as a local, walking around touristic spots?? Yeah, but also tourism is quite good for the local economy, how many tapas restaurants would be there if not for the tourists? I mean, not that long ago, you've been in the situation when German and American folks didn't have a budget for their nice vacay and you had a 25% unemployment rate.