Barcelona is a great city and it started off as my first choice. I know it well and my girlfriend's parents are just over the border on the French side. Had a t

Barcelona is a great city and it started off as my first choice. I know it well and my girlfriend's parents are just over the border on the French side. Had a tour of Betahaus Barcelona too and that was lovely. Why didn't it make the cut? I visited Sofia for the first time shortly after checking out Betahaus Barcelona and it simply ended up beating Barcelona on every metric I was interested in. It's significantly cheaper to live there; Betahaus Sofia was just as good; Sofia itself feels as young, fun and dynamic as Barcelona. It's a pretty city and everyone I met was incredibly friendly. There also seems to be a better/more fully formed startup networking environment in Sofia than Barcelona.