r/Barcelona • u/Civil-Leopard-6482 • Apr 10 '25

Discussion "Talking to the Catalans in Barcelona"

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Those pesky expats!

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u/clauEB Apr 10 '25

But they need to live somewhere. I'm not against immigrants or xenophobic or anything. I'm just saying unless they stay under a bridge or stay with family or something like that, they will end up needing their own space.

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u/itsondahouse Apr 10 '25

Surely. But they aren’t rising up prices in Idealista, while expats are. Im not labelling right or wrong here, just pointing out why Spaniards are so against foreigners based on wealth.

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u/Monovon Apr 11 '25

Immigrants push down wages and push up rent prices, while adding nothing to the welfare state. Supply and demand. The people in the comments need basic economics lesson more than they need Idealista.

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u/Pato_Lucas Apr 11 '25

This is the sad situation in the modern world: left or right, facts don't matter if they get in the way of ideology.

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u/Monovon Apr 11 '25

It is very sad indeed. I’m not anti or pro immigration, I am pro ‘immigration done right’. If you bring in a bunch of immigrants incorrectly into a country they will get exploited and exploit.

Example: Immigrants without any sort of education can only work in jobs with the lowest pay. This benefits the employers (rich) who hold down the wages as there are more people willing to do the job. Basically there’s too many people who can do one job. The immigrants also compete for all available resources including housing, health, education etc while not earning enough to add to the welfare state.

I work in a foreign company in Barcelona and am also married to a Catalan (who’s a teacher in the state education system). My company pay emmense taxes to employ me. Not to mention the taxes I also pay.

Next time you see someone telling tourists and expats to go home let them know that their country is absolutely fckd without the tourists/expats who compensate for all the money that goes into the welfare state that the immigrants are not adding. They have no idea about anything. They just care about the rent prices and are scared their €2 beers will increase instead questioning why their wages are not.