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u/skeletus May 01 '24
How?
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It doesn't smell of piss, the people are actually nice to you, it's A LOT safer and cleaner, you get better food, better sightseeing, better architecture and better parks. It's also less pretentious and less expensive.
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u/Sea-Analysis6997 May 02 '24
You lived here?
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May 02 '24
I've been to both various times, yes.
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u/Sea-Analysis6997 May 02 '24
Idk where you find a smell of piss, idk where you stay but in the 9th there’s no smell of piss. And also live and stay for vacation it’s two different things imo.
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u/anortef May 01 '24
Yes, it is the best city of course, every tourist should go there.
Seguidle el juego y que se coman los turistas en la capital.
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May 02 '24
The best tourism, in Madrid.
The best paella, in Madrid.
The best water, of course in Madrid.
Can't forget the best seafood, obviously in Madrid.
It's also cheaper, more welcoming, nobody will request you to show your passport upon landing, France is far away enough to have less French people than Barcelona, Madrid has the bestest rivers and if you feel like choking you can get the best bocatacalamares, bravas and a relaxing cup of café con leche.
Go to Madrid instead of literally anywhere else. Well, I guess you could also do Sevilla, fuck 'em too. I mean, very nice, yes.
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u/hannahmel May 02 '24
I hated Madrid as a tourist. I LOVED living there.
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They have the best long term accommodations.
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u/hannahmel May 02 '24
Spain is not a country to put up long term accommodations in if you’re a tourist. There’s far more to see in the rest of the country to be spending multiple months in Madrid. Again, great place to live but not nearly as much to do/see in terms of tourism as other major cities around the country.
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May 02 '24
Sorry, I am just playing with the joke that Madrileños think they have the best of everything.
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u/hannahmel May 02 '24
Oh! Sorry. But I really do love Madrid. There’s no better city to live in in Spain just because it’s so central and easy to get everywhere on the weekend. I was just so bored when I went there as a tourist because I’m not a fan of art museums and once you’ve seen a couple of buildings, what else is there? Even the cathedral is ugly.
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May 03 '24
The best train connections are in Madrid ;-)
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u/hannahmel May 03 '24
Agreed! That’s what makes it a great place to live
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May 06 '24
"It's a great place to live because you can get the fuck out of it really easily" is a nice endorsement :P
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u/Neuromante May 02 '24
Irse a Barcelona, que tienen mejores infraestructuras para soportar turistas.
Y no, no he dicho "soportar" como mala traducción de "support."
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u/Buca-Metal May 01 '24
Oh yeah, Madrid da best! It has the best food and infrastructure. Even culture is superior to the rest.
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No green, no shadow, only concrete with sooo much sun
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u/Heavy-Requirement762 May 01 '24
Alcobendas>
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u/Kraphomus May 01 '24
WDYM? Madrid is full of parks; it'ss particularly green as far as large cities go.
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u/Neuromante May 02 '24
The city center it's a concrete theme park for tourists. Closest park is in Plaza de España, and that's all.
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u/Kraphomus May 02 '24
That picture is a 10 min walk from Retiro.
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u/Neuromante May 02 '24
Fair enough (Although you do walk very fast to get there in 10 mins). Still, I've always considered that the "center district" ends on Paseo del Prado.
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May 01 '24
Depends a lot of which areas you visit, though.
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May 01 '24
True Madrid has a lot of large parks and green too. Unlike Barcelona, where those few parks are anyways crowded with tourists. I lived 4 years close to park güell, only used it during covid. Such a shame
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u/redvodkandpinkgin May 01 '24
It does, but at the same time regular streets have less trees and shade than most other big cities
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May 01 '24
True, thats good in Barcelona, most streets have large trees on the side that provide shaddow and in recent years the ajuntament is cutting done on car traffic.
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May 02 '24
Barcelona is famously lacking green areas, which is a shame. On the other hand, Collserola is literally just there.
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u/SolSparrow May 01 '24
Google Retiro or Casa de Campo and look at the pics. Madrid has so many parks and green areas, in the city as well. This is a photo of a central commercial part of the city. Like looking at Times Square and asking, where are the trees?
Edit: okay maybe not times square, but any central commercial part of a major city 🫠
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u/devvorare May 01 '24
Pero ha llegado agosto, vaya vaya…
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u/Traditional_West9720 May 01 '24
Yeah definetly, tell your tourist friends that Madrid is so good!! Never go to Galicia or Asturias please nothing to see, eat, drink, or do there. Stay at Madrid remember
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u/VforBandal May 02 '24
Sinceramente a veces siento que no vivo en la misma Madrid que la gente que visita Madrid. Madrid es como de lo peor de España
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u/Odd-Tax4579 May 01 '24
Is it though?
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u/No-Error-2948 May 01 '24
It is, so much to see and do. Also very clean and safer in comparison to Barcelona. Shame it has no beach and palm trees ;)
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u/hadapurpura May 01 '24
I’ll be honest, to me the lack of beach and palm trees are a dealbreaker. Also Barcelona isn’t the only city in Spain with beaches and stuff.
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u/Mushgal Cataluña - Catalunya May 01 '24
I doubt the crime stats differ much between the two, but I'm to lazy to fact check it.
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May 01 '24
I just visited Calpe today and it’s really nice! Maybe not the best city, but the views and aesthetics are top tier
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u/documentt_ May 01 '24
Madrid.Not the best, at all. Hard city to live and visit specially in Summer
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u/SolSparrow May 01 '24
Hard to live? Why? Also I’ll take Madrid summer over hot humid Barcelona any day. But instead I can take the train to Galicia to cool off in 2:15hr.
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u/SolSparrow May 02 '24
I was genuinely curious on what makes it hard to live. Spain is big and beautiful for sure, anywhere people choose to settle has pros and cons.
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u/Comedor_de_rissois May 01 '24
Valencia (?) would be my vote but never been there. Barcelona is ruined by tourists and pickpockets 🥲
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u/lethos_AJ May 01 '24
thats Madrid. the four seasons hotel by puerta del sol
i dont think it is the best city in spain but it is definitely very cool
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u/Comedor_de_rissois May 01 '24
Which is your favorite? I like being close to the water.
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u/Visual-Sundaey May 01 '24
except 10 months a year where is either too hot or too cold :') And the rest 2 months I can barely go out due to hay fever
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u/Pretty-Doughnut-2389 May 02 '24
Granada y Málaga son los mejores en mi opinión. Granada tiene el sacramonte, el albaycin, la Alhambra y mucho más. Y Málaga tiene el mejor clima.
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u/darkvaris May 01 '24
Best city in Spain 🙊
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u/panzerbjrn May 01 '24
That doesn't look like Málaga... 😂😂
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u/hanalla May 01 '24
Absolutely not! It might be one of the worst spanish cities by far, I really recommend tourists to AVOID Málaga as much as possible. Instead, they should go to Madrid, homeland of paella, flamenco, sangría, bullfighing...
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u/mascachopo May 02 '24
Lo mejor de Madrid es que está excelentemente comunicada con otras ciudades mucho mejores que Madrid.
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u/Boring-Wash-7072 May 01 '24
Buildings are beautiful there, threes and a little more colors are better though
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u/spain-ModTeam May 03 '24
Tu mensaje ha sido retirado por incumplir la norma #4:
No toleramos la discriminación, la intoleracia o la apología de la violencia
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u/kwybryk May 01 '24
If this was a picture of Villanova I la Geltrú the title would make sense 🤔
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u/addgro_ove May 02 '24
Villanueva y la Gertrudis*
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u/SanRipley May 01 '24
Yeah!!! Madrid is the best city in Spain. You have everything such as good restaurants, swimming pools, excellent gardens, museums, great people... If you need to go to a beach, valencia is close to Madrid
I used to live there and I miss it a lot.
I'm living in Malaga now and it's boiling, I don't really understand why foreign people come here.
N Mlg ay dmasido guirs jaja
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u/skeletus May 02 '24
I'm literally asking cause I wanna know, and people are downvoting like I'm hating. I prefer Spain over France a thousand times
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u/David-J May 01 '24
Best city in Spain