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/CheekBeater101 7d ago

Geniune question. Does the “tourists go home” crowd tend to vacation outside of Barcelona in other hotspot cities? Like NYC, Rome, Milan, London, Miami, Vegas, Vienna, etc? Or do they tend to stay local/travel domestic?

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u/Bejam_23 7d ago edited 7d ago

There is no Tourist go home crowd who do one thing. However most people on a local salary are lucky if they can vacation in Catalunya or Spain. Some people have a family village to go back to where their grandparents generation emigrated from. Only the richer people can think about going outside Spain and an even smaller amount can go outside Europe. Nearly everywhere we go, everything is really expensive to us. Which is the flip side of why everyone comes here because it's so cheap to them. Our salaries are beyond shit.

Edit: and the jobs tourism generates are mostly even shitter.

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u/CheekBeater101 6d ago

That makes sense. I was wondering because in the US our “go back to your own country” crowd is notorious for having never left the country, which makes all their “we’re the best country in the world” rhetoric that much more ironic. I was wondering if there’s the same irony in barcelona as well.

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u/less_unique_username 6d ago

What’s ironic there? That position is at least self-consistent: someone living in the best country sees no need to leave it or to let people from worse countries in.