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Just as a curiosity. Where in Spain?
by nunomdc 8y ago
Just as a curiosity. Where in Spain?
- toomuchtodo 8y agoNot OP, but someone else on HN about 8 months ago [1] suggested Valencia. As they said, it is lovely, inexpensive, and beautiful (we bought a flat there as a vacation home). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15975815 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15975815
- pimmen 8y agoYeah, I was mostly in Andalusia and I thought it was gorgeous so it certainly has that going for it, but I think I would like bigger cities. Especially thinking career wise. (Was very surprised that some Spaniards I met didn’t think Andalusia was something special but that the spruce filled forests of Sweden was a paradise. Grass is greener and all that.)
- jxub 8y agoSeconding Valencia (source: living there for two years). You can buy a 3 bed flat for around 100k€, eat a three-course lunch for 9-15€ and generally enjoy life. Weather in summer can be too wet though and the metro stops every 10-15 minutes compared to the ~2 in Barcelona. Also, tech jobs pay between 11k-45k€ only AFAIK.
- pimmen 8y ago> Just as a curiosity. Where in Spain? My two top picks would be Barcelona and Madrid. Barcelona has real estate prices on par with Stockholm but from what I’ve read a lot of other stuff is cheaper. A city where being carless would be no biggie would be a welcome change, too. Swedes really love their cars even though fuel taxes and other car related stuff is crazy expensive here. I think people mainly choose the car because public transportation still sucks at a lot of places. The Madrid metro really impressed me.