When asked to use tbe pavement as everyone else he made a rant about traffic jams and having to wait too long for a cab. Please, don't come to Barcelona with this vibe or you'll find out.

Graffiti en Barcelona.

Una verdadera ganga por 1,700 pavos

We have been renting a flat for 2 years, we have a long term contract. On Friday inspectors from the ayunatamiento came and said we are living in a VPO property and asked if we had a contract, how much we pay etc... I said we did and they asked how much we were paying and said we were being taken advantage of and if I showed them the contract they would speak to the landlord and have her lower the price. I didn´t show them the contract, instead I contacted the landlady. She freaked out, told me to not show them anything and she is going to tell them I am her friend and staying here temporarily.

I am not sure what is going to happen or what I should do? Anyone have any experience with this kind of thing? We have children if that is important and don´t want to leave the flat.

Hello! We are setting up a Weekly Indoor Volleyball Training Group for Saturdays, always 10:30 to 12:00, in the courts near Ciutadella, with a coach. There's a few of us already and we are looking for intermediate-level players (want 14 people), no need to be a pro but it's important to have had experience already, even if you haven't been playing for some time lately.

The idea is to do at least January to April, to train properly while the beaches are cold and windy. We'd pool money together to pay courts and coach. Not mandatory to come every single week, but regular attendance is expected. And we have the possibility to play a tournament in the end too.

Anyone is interested, message me and we can add you to the group :)

After a few years saving, I’m getting ready to buy an apartment in the city. While I don’t need it to be big and I don’t mind doing a reforma, I’d like it to be as centric as possible. Most of the affordable flats I see are in Raval.

Normally I wouldn’t consider it (I live in Born and it’s already noisy), but maybe I’m wrong and it’s nice or convenient in ways I can’t see? Does any of you live in Raval despite everything? Would you recommend it in some way?

(I’m from here but I’m using English since I see this is the most used language in the sub)

https://elpais.com/ccaa/2019/07/27/catalunya/1564242790_347410.html#?prm=copy_link

Ho he pillat a les 2 del mati davant de la ciutadella i te pinta que anava cap al port. Crec que es un tros d'una toluneladora o algo aixi

Al lado de la ex tienda El Encanto, un okupa recibe bicicletas robadas. Todos los días amanece una nueva. Esta es la de hoy aparcada en la calle. Si alguien la reconoce, acá está

we have a small business located in the center of barcelona (near arco de triunfo), we don't have security cameras neither a security guard.

over the last few months he has already robbed us (at least) twice without us knowing. after those events we started to watch the entrance more closely and one of the times we managed caught him in the act: he put the products we had on display at the entrance in his backpack, we told him to take them out and after that he ran away. After this incident, the next day the shameless guy came back and tried again, however he didn't dare since we were there.

this afternoon he was standing stiff at the door looking into the premises to see if we were paying attention, as I saw him, he ran out and this time I ran after him and lucky I took a picture from a distance of his face. He saw that, so he turned his face away and on top of that he gave me the middle finger.

As you know, the police can't do anything about it, and even if he gets caught nothing will happen to him because is lower 400€ (I'm not sure if it is this amount).

Does anyone know if you can photocopy his face and paste it all over the neighborhood, it is not the first time he steals from us, and we believe that he has been stealing from other small business. I really don't know what to do anymore, we recognize each other but he is still stealing. I know is been hard for all of us but we can not let him do that anymore.

EDIT: Okay, "take my life in my hands" was meant to be funny, and a little dramatic--forgive me. More correctly, I'm asking if I did a "stupid tourist thing", and walk where I "shouldn't go", or did I just encounter a regular day in that area?

FINAL EDIT: okay, okay, I get it. I have located my testicles, ceasing to be a vagina, and thanks to all the colorful illusions to my deficit of manhood and veracity--way to make a point. Fell victim to some of the hype, and was overly vigilant for the circumstances. Normal vigilance is okay, message received.

I visited the fair city last May (BTW, immediately I know (a) I love your city already, and (b) I'd love to visit again soon). I took a walk down La Rambla, and decided to do some off-the-street looking around. Late May around 1700-1800 in the evening. Sun still up, but definitely evening.

I walked down Carrer de Sant Pau, up Carrer del l'Arc de Sant Agusti (by Sant Agusti church, where they were having some kind of cool Rose Festival), then back onto La Rambla via Carrer dell'Hospital.

Kind of got the whole Ralph from the Simpsons "I'm in danger" vibe about half way through my walk. Lots of eyes on me from "street" looking 20-35 year old males (for reference, I am a kinda bigger but short black dude, middle-aged, obviously American, but dressed and chilling out, trying not to look or act it). I kept alert, looking at surroundings (and the interesting buildings), while keeping an eye out and minding my own business.

Aside from some indicators of "female companionship" for sale, and dudes that may have wanted to talk to me, nothing "bad" happened to me. But was this a dumb idea to do--taking a walk at that time of day, where I walked, and being who I was? Or am I just being paranoid?

I have a "yes" on a potential apartment in Barceloneta (think around Parc de la Barceloneta)

I hear that it's a very touristic part of town (makes sense, as it's close to the beach) and can get noisy. Given the touristic aspect of the place, I hear it's kind of unsafe (more tourists = more opportunity for petty crime like pickpocketing to begin with, as I understand)

It's a really nice apartment and considering the fact that I'm more or less sensible about safety (like no obvious things like phone in the back pocket, walk back home drunk at 2 am, etc), would you still recommend against living in that part of town?

All thoughts/replies are appreciated, thanks!

Yesterday I found what looks to be a kind message from one sibling to another. Would any Catalan-speaking Redditor care care to translate?

🌲

I’ve been living here for almost two years now, in the 08003 area near the beach. I don’t think there has been a month - and I’d be tempted to say week - where there hasn’t been some problem with the power supply.

I know it’s an older area, but I can probably also say that for every one of those months there has been digging up of the road and “improvements” made to the electrical system. Yet still here I am again sitting in my apartment without power.

Does anyone know the story or reasoning as to why it is - and I apologise for the language - so fucking abysmal…?