What I hate in Barcelona is the lack of clear rules/laws for bikes, motorcycles, scooters, bici-taxis, that single-wheeled kinda device and many others on the sidewalks. As a pedestrian it is a a total challenge to walk around the city trying not to get hit by one of these
♥️ THIS. This was right on the money. 🤣😂🤣. I’m Puerto Rican and have great grand parents from Catalonia. When I lived in Barcelona, initially the Spanish was an issue because not many Catalonians bent or were helpful with the “Puerto Rican lingo”, 🤪😆 but honestly, everyone was lovely after a while. Yes, I got lost….a few times!!! 😆 🗺 I do miss walking into the market in Sant Gervasi and the staff knew me so well it turned into “HOLA GUAPA” from across the store! 🤣 I wanted to hide but it was such a warm thing to do I had to embrace the love. 🤗 I will say during the beginning of living in Sant Gervasi, it was a VERRRY interesting learning experience due to strange looks and stares being THE BROWNIE in the area, 🤔😳🤪, but I can say I had the best experiences once getting to know people. The owner of my flat was the best and so kind! She tried to make me her daughter in law and staged a whole thing at her house to trick me into meeting her son. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 So you see….You take the good with the bad and make things work for you. 🤗🥰
Do you still live there? I want to move there. I’m nervous about people wanting to speak catalan when I’m still learning Spanish. Plus I used to live in Puerto Rico so I picked up some slang there too hehe 😄
Hi Valerie ..my name is john ...lm from lreland and l lived in Barcelona during the Olympic games in l992..l lived there almost 2 and half years l have amazing friends living in Barcelona in Cornella.. l love your videos they are brilliant and your very good what u are doing ..really good ..l agree with lack of green areas in Barcelona ..l love the public transport in Barcelona it is excellent..the people are so nice and friendly..lm going to Barcelona again in September for 10 days ..l love it
What the hell , thank you for first honest review , also person that really knows (not like other how is life in Barcelona I was there whole 3 months videos on RUclips ) , thank you thank you . That bad quality of tap water is annoying, city should fix that …
Great video, I really liked it! I moved to Barcelona a month ago, and having to carry those huge bottles of water from the grocery store was the first thing I disliked :D Although the city is amazing, it was very easy for me at first to get lost in Barcelona's one-way streets when I was looking for the bus stop.
I only desagree with the ¨super clean¨ i think Bcn its quite dirty, or actually the ajuntament does a great job in trying to keep the city clean, but plp loving trow things on the floor. and during summer time the city smells bad.
Wow, that was amazing. I've seen so many videos but I enjoyed yours immensely. I also love your energy. I know it's hard to do these Hate list videos but I think you were so reasonable. All these things are minor if we love the city we live in. I have a few questions, though. You mentioned low salaries, but I don't think you mentioned jobs. I guess it's a given that is hard, but could you do one of those videos, like how is job searching like, what professions are in demand, what areas to live in to be closer to great jobs, what's the tech community there like? And most important of all, what ages are still ok to work in companies? My father still works in a company in his 70s in the US. Are 40 year old people still getting jobs there? Thanks,
Thank you so much for your feedback! Yes this video was controversial but there are in fact more things i don't like 😅 But there are thousands I love! That's why I'm still choosing Barcelona as my home ❤️ next video will be about jobs indeed!!!! Stay tuned! 🥰🥰🥰
@@PickaPictour Oh wow, thanks so much. Looking forward to it. I'm commenting from the US btw. Thinking of moving there since most jobs in the US are gig or contract work, if not none at all. I heard contractual work is also popular there -- a global problem, I guess. No one is hiring full time anymore anywhere. PS. Oh please, do mention more of what you hate. I lived in New York for 20 years and I have a love-hate thing with NY as well. It's normal.
In Madrid I know you can get a plastic metro pass with your photo on it and everything and it lasts about 10 years and you can loaded it every month with the 30 day ticket and travel unlimited amount of times on any transport for about 20 euros a month. Tho I’m sure it’s for anyone under 25 for that price
Hahaha..amazing love & hate video, ill try to embrace both on November 2021. Thumbs up for ur Video tips.. Covered everything i needed before travelling to Barcelona 📸👍
Los guiris lol. Lived in Ciutat Vella for two years (El born and el Gotico) and damn... sometimes I couldn't hear my thoughts. Beautiful city and great memories tho
I used to fly to Barcelona airport to get to another location. The smell at the airport was unbearable. That awful distinctive smell that I cannot forget. The city itself is so over-rated in my opinion. Loud, disorganised, expensive, humid. I don't get how can anyone voluntarily move there. Places like the Basque country, Galicia, Cantabria are so much more appealing. Green and nice mild weather. They remind me of Ireland a bit.
Hello, I'm from India and I wanted to know if the locals around generally speak in English in Barcelona? Just curious as I'll moving there in another 4 months for my higher studies!
I'm here right now. The folks who work in the tourism industry definitely do. The locals you stumble upon daily? Sadly, no. They can understand a little bit and will generally know what you want through sign language. That said, you need to know Spanish if you want to survive here.
It seems to me that you dislike more things than you like .... and to affirm what you say about people who always answer in Catalan even though the others speak Spanish 😳 I don't know how many people you have been listening doing this or what statistics you have consulted. I totally disagree maybe some people do this but it is not common by far. Polite people use to do the opposite and in Barcelona like other cities there are polite people and rude people. Maybe you have listened the last ones.
Oh! and it was supposed to be a video of only the things I hate but then I started talking about the things I love. Maybe that's why you throuht I hate more, but I swear I don't 🥰
Cut the lady so w slack. Her video is literally titled "things I hate about Barcelona". As a tourist it's actually incredibly useful to know this instead of the usual videos only showing sugar coated cities.
It's becoming more and more impossible for a Catalan speaker to really speak Catalan in Barcelona except for some traditional neighborhoods and stores. Catalan is dying a slow death. In many places if you order something in Catalan you get a blank stare.
The language thing is the exact same in Montreal, Canada. Canada is mostly English speaking except for the province of Quebec which is mostly French speaking. Montreal is in Quebec and is mostly French, but it also has a lot of English speakers . Language debates are a constant thing here. And that same thing happens where two people are having a conversation, each speaking their own language and refusing to switch and to add to that, we have hard water, and lots of hills also hahaha.
Actually most catalan speakers will switch to Spanish the ,minute you speak to us in that language. It's one of the reasons the language is spoken less and less. Unfortunatelly.
@@Solo_Traveling Exactly. But the author of this garbage video says that this does not happen, that many Catalans do not want to change. In all my life I have never seen a conversation in which one spoke in Catalan and the other in Spanish. NEVER. This lie is terrible when it is precisely those of us who speak Catalan who always change languages because the others don't know it or don't feel like learning it.
@@xaviergratacosrodriguez9568 I try not to switch to Spanish when this happens, unless I notice the listener struggles to understand me. If I had to change everytime, I could easily spend days without using catalan. Also, do most people switch to catalan as soon as your start using it? No.
I agree completely, also about the remark of language: why don't people answer in Spanish once they know you don't speak or understand Catalan? After living 6 years I could add a few more things to hate in BCN: 1. Pickpockets, in the metro, in El Borne, even far away from the centre, anywhere! And if people get caught (it never happens 'cause the Mossos are nowhere) and if they have stolen less than €60 they only get a minor penalty. And the complete indifference of locals towards this issue 'cause it happens to "guiris" (tourists) 2. Dog pooh, anywhere! 3. lack of Memorials for those fought for freedom against Franco. I got so mad when the building of Telefonica in front of Plaza Catalunya which was the headquarters of the anarchists was reformed and all the treasures of that time were thrown away. 4. gentrification as a result of massive tourism and lack of honest administrators, impossible to rent a place for a normal price, even in working-class areas as Gracia. And all the tourist places like the Mercado Boquería transformed into a shopping area for dummy tourists. And I few others but those were the most important, great video!
@@PickaPictour, unfortunately, languages in Spain have been politicized, Spanish is presented as the language linked to the oppression and Catalan as the one linked to freedom. Such a childless concept! What would George Orwell, writer of the epic Salut to Catalonia, say about this? But nevertheless, you're right, it happens sometimes in BCN. In Girona, Leida or Vic it's much worse. By the way: another minus of for the rest beautiful and great BCN: the lack of Tapas as you get in Andalusia, Madrid or anywhere in Spain. In BCN you've to pay for it. The for Spanish standards very expensive connection between airport and city: the airport-bus AND Metroline L9, the incredible bureaucracy to follow a -not cheap- course at the official languages-school of the local government.
Well basically because its Barcelona. And here people speaks catalan. 6 years here and you even have not tried to learn how to understand it? No man, that's not how it works. At all.
@@danigonzalez4299 see! You didn't understand! I didn't say I don't speak Catalan! I guess you didn't understand anything... Maybe I should do this video in Spanish
Nice video. The last time I saw one of your videos was about two years ago, just before moving to Barcelona. And now here I am, agreeing with your list of likes and dislikes of the city.
You are mixing concepts. First off all, we are not a bilingual country. Bilingual can be a person, not a country. Anyone has the right to choose their language and not change according to the law (and sociolinguistics). I'm from Barcelona and I hardly ever speak Spanish, I don't like it. And secondly, Spanish originates from Castile and not from Catalonia, where it was not spoken until the end of the 19th century. We have been speaking Catalan here since the Middle Ages. If you don't like it, you can always go back home...
@@PickaPictour Being a Spanish speaker and having lived in Barcelona for 12 years, I don't know what problem you have with Catalan, a language that is easy for a Spanish speaker to understand. At this point I notice some kind of prejudice that I can't understand ... I would recommend that after 12 years you make the effort to at least understand it and don't expect everyone to change their language because of your pretty face.
@@tjunoy so I see you didn't understand anything. When did I say I don't speak Catalan???? And what about my pretty face...??? What does it has to do???
@@PickaPictour If you speak Catalan, why does it bother you that someone speaks Catalan to you and does not answer you in Spanish? where is the problem?
@@tjunoy the problem is that still you don't understand. I said when people who do not speak Catalan are talked in Catalan which means people from the rest of Spain or Latin America.
@@PickaPictour Let's say we are both in London, and a friend just moved to Barcelona.....he's an expat. If we are both in Barcelona, talking about the same person, he's an immigrant. 😎
Nie video, but I would like to share my perspective, one that is 10 years in the making. I do not have a love affair with Barcelona, and, if it wasn't for my Catalan partner, I would never have stayed as long as I have. I can't waitfor us to leave. And while the GDP here is high and the country is considered "first world" let me be the first to shockingly tell folks that the living standards here (homes/buildings) are for millions of people very similar to those found in central and south America .... in other words .... poor! Construction here, both old and new, is just crap and done with underdeveloped planning, questionable materials and ppor execution. Most of the building here are absolute fire pits, built without escapes .... literally. No fire alarms, no fire escapes and family live in subterranean apartments without windows, and, it's all legal. There are like a zillion super old, 6 story walk-ups that lead to tiny, crappy little apartments. Bathrooms on airplanes are larger. They constant leak. Showers are so dinky you can't even bend over to wash your feet and faucets stick out 2 feet from the wall occuping your shower space, and good luck trying to get a constant, comfortable stream of water out of your shower head. Kitchens are tiny, make shift even, and stuffed in rooms that are truely only closet size ... yea, like 3ft x 5 ft. Rooms here are not square. Rooms here are long and narrow which makes arranging furniture next to impossible. The water taste terrible, elevators are a luxury, and there are gypsies literally hanging out of every garbage can on every corner looking for scrap metal to sell, the parks are full of screaming, partying inconserdate assholes and their GD barking dogs until 5AM, and yes ...nightly. It's the noisest country in the world. You can't enoy a cup of coffee at a side walk cafe becasue the smell of the sewers, which, BTW, indendates every part of this city, overwhelming the senses. And it's not limited to outdoor cafes. You can smell the nearby sewers while in the subways (and not like in NY, its differnt), and you can even smell the seweres while shopping at the Cort Engles. In other words, no matter where you are, you can smell piss and shit .... everywhere, and I am not exagerating. Somedays are better than others, and it is indeed worse in the summer, but its a 365 day per year problem here in BCN and it reminds me of New Dehli. And, where you're not assulted by the smells of the BCN sewers, you'll never ever get away from the smell of cigarette smoke. You can not escape it anywhere in the city .... everywhere. It is a constant and never ending reality. Now, can we talk about how much GD dog shit there is here? Reader .... this city is a dog's toilet. I am forever ever stepping in dog shit. If you meander without watching the ground in front of you, you will step in fresh dog shit, I promise you. You can call city hall all you want in order to complain, but people will not pick up there dog's shit, anywhere in this city. Also, for being consdiered such a "world class city" (I use the term loosely) people here, for the emost part, do not speak English, and yes, it is important to speak English ... everywhere, especially if you have a business in a so called "world class city" What's good about BCN? Hard core crime is essetnially unheard of. I love that there are no guns, good public transportation, 3 seaons of comfy weather (summer is a living hell, feels worse than a Mississippi swamp), not a million homeless people everywhere, not a huge huge opiod problem like in the US. I also love that the prices of food are relatively cheaper than in the US, but I can see how expensive it is for the locals since 30K is considered "a decent salary" here. The people here are generally nice, however, I have to say that I find the Catalans to be extraordinarily passive, and, I'll just leave it at that. There .... I said it all of it, and it's all the truth. Don't believe me ....I urge all of you to visit Barcelona in August, and don't just stay in the tourist places .... see the entire city for what it is and you be the judge. I'm sure you'll find it as filthy and offensive as I do. (Alwsys keep a tissue in your pocket sprayed with Channel #5 adn rech for it when your senses are being assaulted. I promise that you'll need it, year round).
Wow tell us how u really feel😅Tbh I prefer a real dose of reality cos I like to prepare for everything that makes me uncomfortable. Appreciate your honest review.
@@nailagotgroove LOL! I know. I am still here, in BCN and hating every minure of it. Everything I said you will experince if you visit here, especially during the summer. It's one of the grossest cities I've ever lived in and don't even get me going on safety issues and lower standard of living (housing). It's all pretty shocking.
@@anthonydavid5121 so its like parts of my beloved NYC! (Think this is the plight of major port/commercial cities) Here's to finding a Long Island kinda suburb I can rest my weary head and commute into the center as needed. Truly best to arrive with the right perspective. Thank you sir! Blessings to you and yours!
@@nailagotgroove I've lived in NYC and SF. In NYC you can, for the most part, sit in an outdoor street cafe without being overwhelemed with the sewer vapors, not heree. NY city is functional, more operational and open 24/7. Not this place. Nothing at all is open when you need it to be. Here, you'll find the majority of businesses are closed when you need them to be open. Very little open before 9AM (including coffee shops so forget grabbing a 6 or 7am coffee on your way to work) and most bussinesses are closed again from 2-5PM and open again when you don't need them to be open, from 5 to 7 or 8PM. Basically, its hard getting anything done or taken care of during noraml daylight hours. It's the same in Italy too. It's a total pain in the ass. NYC has less dog shit per square inch, and in genreal New Yorkers respect nighttime ordanances for quiet. Every GD night here is a festival! And oh, you know how everybody and their mother smokes here, well, these people all smoke (heavily I might add) in thier apartments too, making your place stink all the time of stale cigarette smoke. We don't smoke, but our place smells like a 1960s afterhours super club, and we cant get rid of it. I need a chest XR cuz I swear these people have given me second hand lung cancer.
Its funny because you show the fact you don't know Barcelona is between 2 rivers and many hills. So of course its gonna be hills and you'll need to "climb". This is the Real Barcelona. Also about parks, wtf? Collserola is far but also Montjuïc? Where do you live? Also Park Güell is a park itself (the name self proclaim it) and there is a lot of smaller parks also all over the city. Plus in Eixample there is building insides where they can have whatever they like. I don't know, it looks to me much of non knowing really the city¿? Yeah and this (again about the 7 hills of Barcelona and the city itself being there) is why bicicles are a waste of time and money, this is why we use buses/metro and motorbikes because those are the best ways to get in there. Specially motorbikes, those are the perfect transport in Barcelona. Low cost flights in 2021: Not being able to travel¿? Plus the low cost flights are the reason why polution is so high. Or one of the biggest issues, and also one of the biggest issues about Gentrification. And then language, and you go against the language of Barcelona which is Catalan. So deffo you never reached where you moved to. Sorry to say. Its not that bla bla bilinguals bla bla. Is that you come to Barcelona and we have our own language. Adapt to it, please. Yes we can speak you spanish language. No problem. But if you go to the point of it, you'll find out that the spanish language was most used from the '60s when a lot of spanish poulation from another areas moved to Barcelona (and Catalunya in general) from Andalucia, Galicia, Extremadura etc.... and so they brought spanish language here. Yet for us is totally normal to, to not force our friends that can understand catalan but choose to speak spanish because it suits them better, let them speak spanish and we speak the language we are most comfortable with which can be catalan. And this is non disrespectful because we both understand the other speaker is talking the language that suits him/her better and respect the choice instead of trying to make them switch to another language in which they might or might not feel comfortable using. So it's as simple as that. I don't know you, i don't know where you come from but you look from somewhere in Spain and yeah, again I think you did Not did any research in the city you moved at. BR.
@@PickaPictour your welcome. Its not at all I don't get it, is like reality for me being from here and being here for more than 40 years is way different on how you try to describe it.
@Pickapictour A Catalunya es parla català, si no t'agrada ja saps, pots fotre el camp i tens la resta del món per no parlar-lo ni sentir-lo. No crec que tinguis el background cultural ni l'autoritat moral ni els coneixements suficients per venir aquí a dir-nos quan i on hem de parlar el nostre idioma al nostre propi país. Si el teu idioma portés 300 anys minoritzat i perseguit, prohibit i els teus pares i avis per exemple els haguessin fins i tot agredit per parlar-lo potser no diries les tonteries que estàs dient. Apa doncs segueix disfrutant de Barcelona i Catalunya que hem creat i construït generacions de catalans que malauradament parlem català.
Mira tu pasaporte; seguro que bajo "nacionalidad" dice "española". Por lo tanto, eres español en los ojos del mundo, y el castellano es tu idioma. Nadie que habla el idioma nacional debe sentirse obligado a hablar un idioma puramente local.
i agree with the Catalonian issue. this is Spain, at least try to speak Spanish. I understand its your heritage, but i dont go to America and start speaking Navajo
1- Los títulos de transporte son iguales y de igual precio en todas las grandes ciudades de España. 2- Los impuestos para los autónomos existen en toda España, no sólo en Barcelona. 3- Muy pocos catalanes siguen hablando en catalán cuando se dan cuenta de que la persona es extranjera y que sólo habla castellano.
1- habría que hacer como muchas ciudades, una tarjeta unica de plástico o papel y recargarla. 2- los impuestos serán iguales pero yo vivo en barcelona. El que quiera venir a vivir acá tendrá que pagar eso si es autonomo. No hago videos de otras ciudades de momento 3- lo de pocos depende de por donde te muevas y con quien. En barcelona activa solo muy pocos de los que dictan clases aceptan cambiar a castellano aún cuando la mayoría son expats aprendiendo español. En la escuels oficial de idiomas (siendo la mayoría extranjeros) algunos profes no quieren cambiar. En Los tours guiados para residentes, muchos guias no quieren pasar a castellano aun siendo la mayoris expats y puedo seguir enumerando...
@@PickaPictour Bueno, si te refieres a sitios como la Escuela Oficial de idiomas o universidades es distinto. Hay que tener muy en cuenta que si no hubiera una cierta presión institucional o medios de comunicación, el catalán desaparecería en unas pocas décadas. Pero la gente de la calle no te habla en catalán si no sabes. No te quejes tanto porque Barcelona ya es de por sí una ciudad angloparlante, no sólo por la cantidad de turistas que hay, sino por los muchos guiris que se han establecido, que usan el inglés como lengua vehicular. Así que tenemos, por una parte la tradicional presión del castellano (alias español), y el cada vez más frecuente uso de otra lengua mayoritaria, el inglés. Si los catalanes no hacemos nada nos vamos a pique.
@@pinchklub me parece perfecto que la educación sea en catalán, si eres niño y vives aquí es la lengua del lugar. Pero después de los 18,que es cuando viene la gente de otros paises a estudiar, estaria bien usar la bilingualidad.
@@PickaPictour Es un tema complejo. Por un lado es contraproducente hablarle a gente extranjera que vienen a estudiar aquí en una lengua que desconocen y por otro, el catalán se parece al castellano, al portugués y, mucho, al italiano y al francés. Tan fácil es aprender una cosa como la otra.
Se nota que no conoces la ciudad para nada. Además, como hablas español, deberías hacer el vídeo en tu idioma y no en inglés y con tanto acento. Thumbs down.👎👎👎
What I hate in Barcelona is the lack of clear rules/laws for bikes, motorcycles, scooters, bici-taxis, that single-wheeled kinda device and many others on the sidewalks. As a pedestrian it is a a total challenge to walk around the city trying not to get hit by one of these
True!! 😅
Bikes have there own lanes it's pretty clear where pedestrians should walk and where to ride bikes. Don't walk in the bike lanes. Simple
Totally agree, is the jungle
@@pellax Obviously you haven’t been to the jungle😆
@@AlexWestLondon24Im sure the jungle is safer than walking in Barcelona
Please continue your videos, it is so amazing! Love you!
Hope so!! Thanks!!
♥️ THIS.
This was right on the money. 🤣😂🤣. I’m Puerto Rican and have great grand parents from Catalonia. When I lived in Barcelona, initially the Spanish was an issue because not many Catalonians bent or were helpful with the “Puerto Rican lingo”, 🤪😆 but honestly, everyone was lovely after a while. Yes, I got lost….a few times!!! 😆 🗺
I do miss walking into the market in Sant Gervasi and the staff knew me so well it turned into “HOLA GUAPA” from across the store! 🤣 I wanted to hide but it was such a warm thing to do I had to embrace the love. 🤗 I will say during the beginning of living in Sant Gervasi, it was a VERRRY interesting learning experience due to strange looks and stares being THE BROWNIE in the area, 🤔😳🤪, but I can say I had the best experiences once getting to know people. The owner of my flat was the best and so kind! She tried to make me her daughter in law and staged a whole thing at her house to trick me into meeting her son. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 So you see….You take the good with the bad and make things work for you. 🤗🥰
Do you still live there? I want to move there. I’m nervous about people wanting to speak catalan when I’m still learning Spanish. Plus I used to live in Puerto Rico so I picked up some slang there too hehe 😄
Hi Valerie ..my name is john ...lm from lreland and l lived in Barcelona during the Olympic games in l992..l lived there almost 2 and half years l have amazing friends living in Barcelona in Cornella.. l love your videos they are brilliant and your very good what u are doing ..really good ..l agree with lack of green areas in Barcelona ..l love the public transport in Barcelona it is excellent..the people are so nice and friendly..lm going to Barcelona again in September for 10 days ..l love it
You are my new favourite thing about Barcelona.
All the best to everyone. Hope things go well for you in barcelona
Thanks so much!!! We'll survive 🥰
GOD willing
What the hell , thank you for first honest review , also person that really knows (not like other how is life in Barcelona I was there whole 3 months videos on RUclips ) , thank you thank you . That bad quality of tap water is annoying, city should fix that …
This is awesome! My absolute favorite pros-cons video about Barcelona. Love the energy and useful info I haven’t heard from others. 👍🏼
Thanks a lot!!!! 😄🤗❤️
Me encanta tu estilo!
Great video, I really liked it! I moved to Barcelona a month ago, and having to carry those huge bottles of water from the grocery store was the first thing I disliked :D
Although the city is amazing, it was very easy for me at first to get lost in Barcelona's one-way streets when I was looking for the bus stop.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Buy a brita or jata water filter, it changed my life 😉 thank you so much for watching! 😘😘❤️
Is boiling the tap water in Barcelona and leaving it to cool safe to drink? Buying bottled water is a lot of plastic 😳
I only desagree with the ¨super clean¨ i think Bcn its quite dirty, or actually the ajuntament does a great job in trying to keep the city clean, but plp loving trow things on the floor. and during summer time the city smells bad.
Yes definitely people! Specially in the beach
Perfecto, me encantaron tus consejos.
Guárdame un lugar en tu tour, que repetiremos algún día la caminata.
Saludos Valeria
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Wow, that was amazing. I've seen so many videos but I enjoyed yours immensely. I also love your energy. I know it's hard to do these Hate list videos but I think you were so reasonable. All these things are minor if we love the city we live in. I have a few questions, though. You mentioned low salaries, but I don't think you mentioned jobs. I guess it's a given that is hard, but could you do one of those videos, like how is job searching like, what professions are in demand, what areas to live in to be closer to great jobs, what's the tech community there like? And most important of all, what ages are still ok to work in companies? My father still works in a company in his 70s in the US. Are 40 year old people still getting jobs there? Thanks,
Thank you so much for your feedback! Yes this video was controversial but there are in fact more things i don't like 😅 But there are thousands I love! That's why I'm still choosing Barcelona as my home ❤️ next video will be about jobs indeed!!!! Stay tuned! 🥰🥰🥰
@@PickaPictour Oh wow, thanks so much. Looking forward to it. I'm commenting from the US btw. Thinking of moving there since most jobs in the US are gig or contract work, if not none at all. I heard contractual work is also popular there -- a global problem, I guess. No one is hiring full time anymore anywhere. PS. Oh please, do mention more of what you hate. I lived in New York for 20 years and I have a love-hate thing with NY as well. It's normal.
In Madrid I know you can get a plastic metro pass with your photo on it and everything and it lasts about 10 years and you can loaded it every month with the 30 day ticket and travel unlimited amount of times on any transport for about 20 euros a month. Tho I’m sure it’s for anyone under 25 for that price
We need that!!!!!! I didn't know :(
@@PickaPictour yeah my friend who lives in Madrid was telling me about it!
@@Five-uy6xn I hope they do the same here 🙏🙏
Limescale in water is the minerals. It’s not unhealthy and it’s the same stuff as in the mineral water, might just have a different mineral content.
Hahaha..amazing love & hate video, ill try to embrace both on November 2021. Thumbs up for ur Video tips.. Covered everything i needed before travelling to Barcelona 📸👍
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Los guiris lol. Lived in Ciutat Vella for two years (El born and el Gotico) and damn... sometimes I couldn't hear my thoughts. Beautiful city and great memories tho
Great tip for my next video!
Hi! Sorry, how much does it costs for one of those monthly cards, for locals?
I have all the prices in my other video Barcelona Travel cards :)
@@PickaPictour gracias!!!
De nada!! 😘😘
I hate when nobody speaks catalan, which is the situation now, in Barcelona at least. Learn a little, is our culture too.
I think you didn't understand my point
Can you do video of different places where you can live in Barcelona. Im hoping to move there one day soon
Yes! Will do a new one cos I have one from 2 years ago. Check that!! 💪😘
I used to fly to Barcelona airport to get to another location. The smell at the airport was unbearable. That awful distinctive smell that I cannot forget. The city itself is so over-rated in my opinion. Loud, disorganised, expensive, humid. I don't get how can anyone voluntarily move there. Places like the Basque country, Galicia, Cantabria are so much more appealing. Green and nice mild weather. They remind me of Ireland a bit.
Don't drink more is bad for your health.
Hating the whaste of paper in metro tickets but loving cheap flights around Europe. An interesting approach to sustainability 😅
The one and only person that makes me love Barca is Messi ❤️💙🔥🔥
And me! 🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️
@José María Rodríguez Casares 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈💔💔💔💔💔
Ok but the video is about Barna, not Barça.
Hi Wine and Beer has water in it, drink more. I can see you're point, but look at Barcelona its amazing city. Australia
I love Barcelona 🥰
What i hate most is the nasty smell in some streets in the center smell like mierda.
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I agree. 😖
I love football so I enjoyed Barcelona 👍
I want to come Barcelona.
Hello, I'm from India and I wanted to know if the locals around generally speak in English in Barcelona? Just curious as I'll moving there in another 4 months for my higher studies!
Mmmmm I don't think so, but you can learn Spanish 😉
@@PickaPictour catalan
I'm here right now. The folks who work in the tourism industry definitely do. The locals you stumble upon daily? Sadly, no. They can understand a little bit and will generally know what you want through sign language. That said, you need to know Spanish if you want to survive here.
Forget about the misunderstandings of people, there are ones like me that see the point hahaha. thx for the video btw
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌Thanks! 🥰
True, save water, drink cava!
Sounds great 👍
Thank you Stephen!!!! 🥰
We have Collserola park.
The walk-ups! Oooh the walk-ups 😩😮💨
2:40 I say 'unfortunately' just like you!
It seems to me that you dislike more things than you like .... and to affirm what you say about people who always answer in Catalan even though the others speak Spanish 😳 I don't know how many people you have been listening doing this or what statistics you have consulted. I totally disagree maybe some people do this but it is not common by far. Polite people use to do the opposite and in Barcelona like other cities there are polite people and rude people. Maybe you have listened the last ones.
I've been living here more than 10 years and I love Barcelona 🥰 check all my videos I love more than I hate. And yes I've seen both people 😪
Oh! and it was supposed to be a video of only the things I hate but then I started talking about the things I love. Maybe that's why you throuht I hate more, but I swear I don't 🥰
Cut the lady so w slack. Her video is literally titled "things I hate about Barcelona".
As a tourist it's actually incredibly useful to know this instead of the usual videos only showing sugar coated cities.
A mí me pasó hace 30 años cuando era un crío y salí alucinado de la tienda. Muy bordes.
It's becoming more and more impossible for a Catalan speaker to really speak Catalan in Barcelona except for some traditional neighborhoods and stores. Catalan is dying a slow death. In many places if you order something in Catalan you get a blank stare.
Also the pick pockets in the metro
The language thing is the exact same in Montreal, Canada. Canada is mostly English speaking except for the province of Quebec which is mostly French speaking. Montreal is in Quebec and is mostly French, but it also has a lot of English speakers . Language debates are a constant thing here. And that same thing happens where two people are having a conversation, each speaking their own language and refusing to switch and to add to that, we have hard water, and lots of hills also hahaha.
🤣🤣🤣You're right! I've been there and this also happened to me 😉
Actually most catalan speakers will switch to Spanish the ,minute you speak to us in that language. It's one of the reasons the language is spoken less and less. Unfortunatelly.
What the author of the video says is a disgusting LIE. All Catalan speakers ALWAYS switch to Spanish. FOREVER.
@@Solo_Traveling Exactly. But the author of this garbage video says that this does not happen, that many Catalans do not want to change. In all my life I have never seen a conversation in which one spoke in Catalan and the other in Spanish. NEVER. This lie is terrible when it is precisely those of us who speak Catalan who always change languages because the others don't know it or don't feel like learning it.
@@xaviergratacosrodriguez9568 I try not to switch to Spanish when this happens, unless I notice the listener struggles to understand me.
If I had to change everytime, I could easily spend days without using catalan.
Also, do most people switch to catalan as soon as your start using it? No.
Is that €300 for Self-Employed per month?
Yes! Around 270€
@@PickaPictour oh wow what happens if you don’t earn a lot in the 1st 6months would you still have to pay €270
And must you still pay yearly tax?
@@shanemitchell2479 of course!!
@@shanemitchell2479 you start paying 50 and then 100 etc until you get to 270€ for the very first time.
I agree completely, also about the remark of language: why don't people answer in Spanish once they know you don't speak or understand Catalan? After living 6 years I could add a few more things to hate in BCN:
1. Pickpockets, in the metro, in El Borne, even far away from the centre, anywhere! And if people get caught (it never happens 'cause the Mossos are nowhere) and if they have stolen less than €60 they only get a minor penalty. And the complete indifference of locals towards this issue 'cause it happens to "guiris" (tourists)
2. Dog pooh, anywhere!
3. lack of Memorials for those fought for freedom against Franco. I got so mad when the building of Telefonica in front of Plaza Catalunya which was the headquarters of the anarchists was reformed and all the treasures of that time were thrown away.
4. gentrification as a result of massive tourism and lack of honest administrators, impossible to rent a place for a normal price, even in working-class areas as Gracia. And all the tourist places like the Mercado Boquería transformed into a shopping area for dummy tourists.
And I few others but those were the most important, great video!
Wowww! Thanks for the info!! Will be good for my next video 👏👏
Some catalans, not everyone, don't want to change the language they're speaking... So they continue in catalán even though you won't understand 😪
@@PickaPictour, unfortunately, languages in Spain have been politicized, Spanish is presented as the language linked to the oppression and Catalan as the one linked to freedom. Such a childless concept! What would George Orwell, writer of the epic Salut to Catalonia, say about this? But nevertheless, you're right, it happens sometimes in BCN. In Girona, Leida or Vic it's much worse.
By the way: another minus of for the rest beautiful and great BCN: the lack of Tapas as you get in Andalusia, Madrid or anywhere in Spain. In BCN you've to pay for it. The for Spanish standards very expensive connection between airport and city: the airport-bus AND Metroline L9, the incredible bureaucracy to follow a -not cheap- course at the official languages-school of the local government.
Well basically because its Barcelona. And here people speaks catalan. 6 years here and you even have not tried to learn how to understand it? No man, that's not how it works. At all.
@@danigonzalez4299 see! You didn't understand! I didn't say I don't speak Catalan! I guess you didn't understand anything... Maybe I should do this video in Spanish
Nice video. The last time I saw one of your videos was about two years ago, just before moving to Barcelona. And now here I am, agreeing with your list of likes and dislikes of the city.
Thanks so so much Héctor!!!! 🙌🙌🙌❤️❤️😘😘😘😘
You are mixing concepts. First off all, we are not a bilingual country. Bilingual can be a person, not a country. Anyone has the right to choose their language and not change according to the law (and sociolinguistics). I'm from Barcelona and I hardly ever speak Spanish, I don't like it. And secondly, Spanish originates from Castile and not from Catalonia, where it was not spoken until the end of the 19th century. We have been speaking Catalan here since the Middle Ages. If you don't like it, you can always go back home...
You totally missed what I was complaining in the video
Can I ask you where are you from and how long have you been living in Barcelona?
Hi! I was born in Argentina. I've been living here from 2008
@@PickaPictour Being a Spanish speaker and having lived in Barcelona for 12 years, I don't know what problem you have with Catalan, a language that is easy for a Spanish speaker to understand. At this point I notice some kind of prejudice that I can't understand ... I would recommend that after 12 years you make the effort to at least understand it and don't expect everyone to change their language because of your pretty face.
@@tjunoy so I see you didn't understand anything. When did I say I don't speak Catalan???? And what about my pretty face...??? What does it has to do???
@@PickaPictour If you speak Catalan, why does it bother you that someone speaks Catalan to you and does not answer you in Spanish? where is the problem?
@@tjunoy the problem is that still you don't understand. I said when people who do not speak Catalan are talked in Catalan which means people from the rest of Spain or Latin America.
yeah!! the water!!!
uma is saying she hates the dirt on the street and on the beach
Also! Yes!!
I am not an expat.....I'm an immigrant.
What's the difference?
@@PickaPictour
Let's say we are both in London, and a friend just moved to Barcelona.....he's an expat.
If we are both in Barcelona, talking about the same person, he's an immigrant.
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I see your point!
Share all of them!!
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Your funny lol
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Crazy woman 🤣🤣🤣😅😂 why didn't see you in barcelona I was there for 4 months I left a few days ago
Why didn't I see you**
So, what you dislike is not the Catalan language, but the nationalists trying to push it on others... TOTALLY SHARE IT
Hi Raúl! Thank you for watching❤️. I think the good thing of this city is to be bilingual and include everyone 🥰
Nie video, but I would like to share my perspective, one that is 10 years in the making. I do not have a love affair with Barcelona, and, if it wasn't for my Catalan partner, I would never have stayed as long as I have. I can't waitfor us to leave. And while the GDP here is high and the country is considered "first world" let me be the first to shockingly tell folks that the living standards here (homes/buildings) are for millions of people very similar to those found in central and south America .... in other words .... poor! Construction here, both old and new, is just crap and done with underdeveloped planning, questionable materials and ppor execution. Most of the building here are absolute fire pits, built without escapes .... literally. No fire alarms, no fire escapes and family live in subterranean apartments without windows, and, it's all legal. There are like a zillion super old, 6 story walk-ups that lead to tiny, crappy little apartments. Bathrooms on airplanes are larger. They constant leak. Showers are so dinky you can't even bend over to wash your feet and faucets stick out 2 feet from the wall occuping your shower space, and good luck trying to get a constant, comfortable stream of water out of your shower head. Kitchens are tiny, make shift even, and stuffed in rooms that are truely only closet size ... yea, like 3ft x 5 ft. Rooms here are not square. Rooms here are long and narrow which makes arranging furniture next to impossible. The water taste terrible, elevators are a luxury, and there are gypsies literally hanging out of every garbage can on every corner looking for scrap metal to sell, the parks are full of screaming, partying inconserdate assholes and their GD barking dogs until 5AM, and yes ...nightly. It's the noisest country in the world. You can't enoy a cup of coffee at a side walk cafe becasue the smell of the sewers, which, BTW, indendates every part of this city, overwhelming the senses. And it's not limited to outdoor cafes. You can smell the nearby sewers while in the subways (and not like in NY, its differnt), and you can even smell the seweres while shopping at the Cort Engles. In other words, no matter where you are, you can smell piss and shit .... everywhere, and I am not exagerating. Somedays are better than others, and it is indeed worse in the summer, but its a 365 day per year problem here in BCN and it reminds me of New Dehli. And, where you're not assulted by the smells of the BCN sewers, you'll never ever get away from the smell of cigarette smoke. You can not escape it anywhere in the city .... everywhere. It is a constant and never ending reality. Now, can we talk about how much GD dog shit there is here? Reader .... this city is a dog's toilet. I am forever ever stepping in dog shit. If you meander without watching the ground in front of you, you will step in fresh dog shit, I promise you. You can call city hall all you want in order to complain, but people will not pick up there dog's shit, anywhere in this city. Also, for being consdiered such a "world class city" (I use the term loosely) people here, for the emost part, do not speak English, and yes, it is important to speak English ... everywhere, especially if you have a business in a so called "world class city" What's good about BCN? Hard core crime is essetnially unheard of. I love that there are no guns, good public transportation, 3 seaons of comfy weather (summer is a living hell, feels worse than a Mississippi swamp), not a million homeless people everywhere, not a huge huge opiod problem like in the US. I also love that the prices of food are relatively cheaper than in the US, but I can see how expensive it is for the locals since 30K is considered "a decent salary" here. The people here are generally nice, however, I have to say that I find the Catalans to be extraordinarily passive, and, I'll just leave it at that. There .... I said it all of it, and it's all the truth. Don't believe me ....I urge all of you to visit Barcelona in August, and don't just stay in the tourist places .... see the entire city for what it is and you be the judge. I'm sure you'll find it as filthy and offensive as I do. (Alwsys keep a tissue in your pocket sprayed with Channel #5 adn rech for it when your senses are being assaulted. I promise that you'll need it, year round).
Wow tell us how u really feel😅Tbh I prefer a real dose of reality cos I like to prepare for everything that makes me uncomfortable. Appreciate your honest review.
@@nailagotgroove LOL! I know. I am still here, in BCN and hating every minure of it. Everything I said you will experince if you visit here, especially during the summer. It's one of the grossest cities I've ever lived in and don't even get me going on safety issues and lower standard of living (housing). It's all pretty shocking.
@@anthonydavid5121 so its like parts of my beloved NYC! (Think this is the plight of major port/commercial cities) Here's to finding a Long Island kinda suburb I can rest my weary head and commute into the center as needed. Truly best to arrive with the right perspective. Thank you sir! Blessings to you and yours!
@@nailagotgroove I've lived in NYC and SF. In NYC you can, for the most part, sit in an outdoor street cafe without being overwhelemed with the sewer vapors, not heree. NY city is functional, more operational and open 24/7. Not this place. Nothing at all is open when you need it to be. Here, you'll find the majority of businesses are closed when you need them to be open. Very little open before 9AM (including coffee shops so forget grabbing a 6 or 7am coffee on your way to work) and most bussinesses are closed again from 2-5PM and open again when you don't need them to be open, from 5 to 7 or 8PM. Basically, its hard getting anything done or taken care of during noraml daylight hours. It's the same in Italy too. It's a total pain in the ass. NYC has less dog shit per square inch, and in genreal New Yorkers respect nighttime ordanances for quiet. Every GD night here is a festival! And oh, you know how everybody and their mother smokes here, well, these people all smoke (heavily I might add) in thier apartments too, making your place stink all the time of stale cigarette smoke. We don't smoke, but our place smells like a 1960s afterhours super club, and we cant get rid of it. I need a chest XR cuz I swear these people have given me second hand lung cancer.
@@anthonydavid5121 omg🤣 what am I getting myself into. Hoping for you, like me, its not forever!
Its funny because you show the fact you don't know Barcelona is between 2 rivers and many hills. So of course its gonna be hills and you'll need to "climb". This is the Real Barcelona. Also about parks, wtf? Collserola is far but also Montjuïc? Where do you live? Also Park Güell is a park itself (the name self proclaim it) and there is a lot of smaller parks also all over the city. Plus in Eixample there is building insides where they can have whatever they like. I don't know, it looks to me much of non knowing really the city¿?
Yeah and this (again about the 7 hills of Barcelona and the city itself being there) is why bicicles are a waste of time and money, this is why we use buses/metro and motorbikes because those are the best ways to get in there. Specially motorbikes, those are the perfect transport in Barcelona.
Low cost flights in 2021: Not being able to travel¿? Plus the low cost flights are the reason why polution is so high. Or one of the biggest issues, and also one of the biggest issues about Gentrification.
And then language, and you go against the language of Barcelona which is Catalan. So deffo you never reached where you moved to. Sorry to say. Its not that bla bla bilinguals bla bla. Is that you come to Barcelona and we have our own language. Adapt to it, please. Yes we can speak you spanish language. No problem. But if you go to the point of it, you'll find out that the spanish language was most used from the '60s when a lot of spanish poulation from another areas moved to Barcelona (and Catalunya in general) from Andalucia, Galicia, Extremadura etc.... and so they brought spanish language here. Yet for us is totally normal to, to not force our friends that can understand catalan but choose to speak spanish because it suits them better, let them speak spanish and we speak the language we are most comfortable with which can be catalan. And this is non disrespectful because we both understand the other speaker is talking the language that suits him/her better and respect the choice instead of trying to make them switch to another language in which they might or might not feel comfortable using. So it's as simple as that. I don't know you, i don't know where you come from but you look from somewhere in Spain and yeah, again I think you did Not did any research in the city you moved at. BR.
I see you didn't understand anything! Anyways thanks for watching ❤️
I've been living in Barcelona for more than 10 years by the way
@@PickaPictour your welcome. Its not at all I don't get it, is like reality for me being from here and being here for more than 40 years is way different on how you try to describe it.
@@danigonzalez4299 but you said many things I didn't say so I guess you didn't understand my point of view :(
@@PickaPictour ya ves qué simpáticos y acogedores son los catalanes. Son insoportables.
true!!!! entrance fee for locals !! whyyyy??
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uppsss. Uma says the same about the language :(
Oh wowww hahahaha
@Pickapictour A Catalunya es parla català, si no t'agrada ja saps, pots fotre el camp i tens la resta del món per no parlar-lo ni sentir-lo. No crec que tinguis el background cultural ni l'autoritat moral ni els coneixements suficients per venir aquí a dir-nos quan i on hem de parlar el nostre idioma al nostre propi país. Si el teu idioma portés 300 anys minoritzat i perseguit, prohibit i els teus pares i avis per exemple els haguessin fins i tot agredit per parlar-lo potser no diries les tonteries que estàs dient. Apa doncs segueix disfrutant de Barcelona i Catalunya que hem creat i construït generacions de catalans que malauradament parlem català.
Mira tu pasaporte; seguro que bajo "nacionalidad" dice "española". Por lo tanto, eres español en los ojos del mundo, y el castellano es tu idioma. Nadie que habla el idioma nacional debe sentirse obligado a hablar un idioma puramente local.
Aquests estrangers que venen haurien de saber que el castella a Catalunya es com el rus a Ucraína o el xinés al Tibet.
Igual no has entendido nada el vídeo,
@Pickapictour ho he entès tot, la que em sembla que encara on entén on viu ets tu.
@@virgilsollozzo6235 la verdad que no, pq yo nunca dije que no hablaba catalán.
i agree with the Catalonian issue. this is Spain, at least try to speak Spanish. I understand its your heritage, but i dont go to America and start speaking Navajo
1- Los títulos de transporte son iguales y de igual precio en todas las grandes ciudades de España.
2- Los impuestos para los autónomos existen en toda España, no sólo en Barcelona.
3- Muy pocos catalanes siguen hablando en catalán cuando se dan cuenta de que la persona es extranjera y que sólo habla castellano.
1- habría que hacer como muchas ciudades, una tarjeta unica de plástico o papel y recargarla.
2- los impuestos serán iguales pero yo vivo en barcelona. El que quiera venir a vivir acá tendrá que pagar eso si es autonomo. No hago videos de otras ciudades de momento
3- lo de pocos depende de por donde te muevas y con quien. En barcelona activa solo muy pocos de los que dictan clases aceptan cambiar a castellano aún cuando la mayoría son expats aprendiendo español. En la escuels oficial de idiomas (siendo la mayoría extranjeros) algunos profes no quieren cambiar. En Los tours guiados para residentes, muchos guias no quieren pasar a castellano aun siendo la mayoris expats y puedo seguir enumerando...
@@PickaPictour Bueno, si te refieres a sitios como la Escuela Oficial de idiomas o universidades es distinto. Hay que tener muy en cuenta que si no hubiera una cierta presión institucional o medios de comunicación, el catalán desaparecería en unas pocas décadas. Pero la gente de la calle no te habla en catalán si no sabes. No te quejes tanto porque Barcelona ya es de por sí una ciudad angloparlante, no sólo por la cantidad de turistas que hay, sino por los muchos guiris que se han establecido, que usan el inglés como lengua vehicular. Así que tenemos, por una parte la tradicional presión del castellano (alias español), y el cada vez más frecuente uso de otra lengua mayoritaria, el inglés. Si los catalanes no hacemos nada nos vamos a pique.
@@pinchklub me parece perfecto que la educación sea en catalán, si eres niño y vives aquí es la lengua del lugar. Pero después de los 18,que es cuando viene la gente de otros paises a estudiar, estaria bien usar la bilingualidad.
@@PickaPictour Es un tema complejo. Por un lado es contraproducente hablarle a gente extranjera que vienen a estudiar aquí en una lengua que desconocen y por otro, el catalán se parece al castellano, al portugués y, mucho, al italiano y al francés. Tan fácil es aprender una cosa como la otra.
@@pinchklub ya pero viene gente de todo el mundo, y muchos ppr este tema terminan yéndose a estudisr a otras ciudades 😭
Se nota que no conoces la ciudad para nada. Además, como hablas español, deberías hacer el vídeo en tu idioma y no en inglés y con tanto acento. Thumbs down.👎👎👎
Lleva 8 años en esa repugnante ciudad.
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siento que me cague la vida eligiendo quedarme en esta ciudad de mierda
Foods mid, wines top notch, people are lower than dirt. Save your money and go to Madrid, thank me later.
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