Let's say some old bat American decided to move to Europe for a year. Where would the old fool be better off living?
Having travelled to the UK and Europe for 153 days, 8 hours and some odd seconds, I would choose Spain. Spain is by no means perfect but it is beautiful. And lush. And tropical. It has beautiful beaches, mountains. It's cheap by American standards. Great public transportation. Nice people.
Now where in Spain? Barcelona. In my humble opinion, living outside the city would be ideal.The city is big, busy, lots of traffic. It reminds me of New York but with more space.
Barcelona has everything big cities offer-culture, restaurants, shopping, great architecture, beautiful parks, historic places, more diversity than other places in Spain. It is in a good place for travel to all of Europe, the middle east, Africa by train. Cheap flights here.
The thing is Barcelona has all that and it is physically beautiful with all the lush vegetation and flowers. That's the difference.
I think where we are right now, Gava or the area near it, would be a really nice place to live. You have beach, mountains, beautiful neighborhoods. You are close to Barcelona.
The only downsides I could see is the summer tourist season. It is busy now with tourists, can't imagine during the summer. It must be crazy. Another downside is summer weather. It gets hot. It's humid here now and with the heat it could get pretty miserable.
So here's what you do: You travel north during June, July August and spend more time here the rest of the year.
So that's my rose colored glasses analysis of where to live in Europe. No doubt actually living here is a whole other ball game. And no, I'm not moving to Spain anytime soon.
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October 24, 2022 at 08:10PM
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