Daniel Maurer He is an American travel writer who has lived in Barcelona for four years. Maurer, a New Yorker whose mother is Spanish, chose this country to improve her quality of life and improve her Spanish. Now, in the article published in daily mailexplains the negative parts of living in Barcelona.
“This is the harsh reality of cities and how much they have lost their souls,” Maurer wrote in the report’s headline. “As well as the majority of the 18,000 people who were granted digital nomad visas in this country last year alone, I wanted to improve the quality of my videos…and my Spanish,” says the author.
“But in Barcelona, Catalan is the official language and annual visitors outnumber residents by a ratio of 10 to 1.I didn’t hear much Spanish in the city.” he laments.
“But I quickly learned one word: giri,” continues the American journalist. “The giri were urinating in the street, the giri were singing under the windows. Apparently tourists have turned Barcelona into a theme park.“Mr. Maurer added.
Upon arriving in Barcelona, the journalist settled in Raval, but then moved to the Gothic Quarter. “There were very few residents left who could integrate.”
“During the month I lived there, meeting a lifelong Barcelonan was as rare as meeting someone.” Mickey or Goofy In the crowd at Disneyland. “Disneyland turned out to be an apt comparison,” he says.
“Now I feel more sympathy “By people like my friend from Sant Andreu, the only neighborhood left in Barcelona where more than 80% of the residents have lived in the city for more than 10 years,” he concluded.
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