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Here a fellow hacker from Barcelona. I rented a loft for 6620€/year. It's mint condition and it's in the outskirts of Barcelona. I'm 12 min in subway to the pl
by meerita 13y ago
Here a fellow hacker from Barcelona.
I rented a loft for 6620€/year. It's mint condition and it's in the outskirts of Barcelona. I'm 12 min in subway to the plaza Catalonia and in 7 min using the train or 20 mins in bus. To be honest, I would never never again will rent in the centre of the city. It's expensive and all buildings are antique, without the proper commodities.
If you want to come Barcelona, check the outskirts, get a scooter or enjoy the Barcelona transportation system. It's wonderful.
I want to add some more info about living in Barcelona.
The weather is magnifique. It barely rains all the year. You can go mountains withing 2h car travel if you want to enjoy the snow in winter.
Eating can be really cheap IF you go to the supermarket, buy all the meals and cook yourself like I do, I saved 300€/month doing this instead eating outside. If you can compile rails, you can be a chef, :). I do buy the meals and stuff for around 90€/month. That includes the 40lts of water i buy. Then daily i try to buy meat, fish or vegetables for the week and it cost me no more than 220€ month.
I pay 90 euros electricity, 30 gas and 40 water every 2 months. 60 euros for 100mbit fiber connection + phone and mobile and that's all.
- mattdeboard 13y agoSounds a lot like San Francisco (though I guess "wonderful" isn't the word some people would use to describe mass transit, but I think it's pretty great compared to the one I have now in the American midwest)
- pcrh 13y agoIndeed, in terms of environment, Barcelona is like San Francisco, except without the fog or Asian food. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite have the same employment opportunities either.
- meerita 13y agoIt is not like SFO at all. The weather, the food, the culture, the beaches (you can swim without freezing it), the mountains and the history makes Barcelona a really different city. No offense to SFOers.
- joss82 13y agoI have to concur on the weather part. San Francisco in summer is like Barcelona in the worst day of winter. Please do not equate sunshine and nice weather. No offense to SFOers, your city is lovely nonetheless.
- S4M 13y agoI have a two bedroom flat in San Gervasi (a rather posh area) for 700 euros a month, so yeah, the rent in Barcelona is rather cheap.
- majc2 13y agoSounds great - but would I be right to assume that Spanish is the working language in the tech community?
- tanoku 13y agoMost tech startups work in English, specially the ones with international/remote workers. Besides that, the "working language" is Catalan, because Barcelona is a city in Catalunya.
- adrinavarro 13y agoLanguage isn't a problem, as long as you speak English. Outside work, you'll hear both Catalan and Spanish. Both are easy to learn and understand, and people do really make an effort to understand and be understood, so no problem there either.
- meerita 13y agoBarcelona is a different city. Most of the europeans come to Barcelona because we're used to speak english, if you compare to other cities where people barely speaks spanish well. Barcelona is multicultural to a high level. At my job we all speak english. And sometimes we speak mix english / spanish but its rare.