There are only 3 areas in the world better than Madrid, and that's being very generous.
I should take Perth out of this list, and in California only San Francisco, parts of Orange County and San Diego should be remarked, as L.A. is a road rash nightmare.
And when we talk about San Francisco it's mostly about the Silicon Valley area and Napa Valley.
Australia is full of spiders, dangerous animals and their own gypsies.
And Singapore is a not for everybody.
ok
Autism
How's Spain nowadays with regard to SJW bullshit and general political and ideological persecutions?
Madrid is polluted as fuck and full of sudacas.
yeah sure, I totally believe your totally not made up opinion piece and entirely science-based theory. you probably didn't provide any proof for my convenience, thank you for that
>3 areas better than Madrid
You are grossly understimating us
(btw which data did you use)
You can check Monocle's list of best cities to live.
We are less affected by SJW than northern Europeans and the anglos. They are trying to infiltrate the colleges, and there's a SJW party, but the average Spaniard hates that.
>Madrid is polluted as fuck and full of sudacas.
Full of sudacas? Los Angeles is less than 30% white.
Madrid is the whitest of all the areas, probably even over Perth (remote place in Australia).
>You are grossly understimating us
I'm honest. Melbourne and Sydney are way over Madrid except in culinary/cultural areas. They are not as powerful as Madrid, but the average Australian has a much bigger income.
California is a special place. There are a lot of oportunities there.
If Madrid had more opportunities, more % of people living in suburban houses and the beach near, it would be unbeatable.
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I'm not catalan but I think Barcelona is better than Madrid.
Barcelona has sea.
Barcelona is more beautiful.
Barcelona has mor scial life.
The only bad part about Barcelona is that Catalans can be cunts sometimes, but so are Madrileños. And maybe that Barcelona is just a little more dangerous.
I can't think in many cities with that conditions. Maybe San Diego and Sydney
Nah, I'm just smarter than you
barcelona looks like shit from above, it just has a couple nice museums and that's it
It's good but it's also a good reason why the rest of Spain is shittier than it should be.
All that brain drain over the centuries, all that investment in Madrid and opportunity cost of not investing in other places, all those multinationals that are only in Madrid because of it's capital status and not due to intrinsic merit and therefore should have their profits and externalities distributed across the country, all of that is a big reason of why Madrid ranks so highly on development indexes
>Barcelona has mor scial life.
No, maybe in the past, but not anymore.
>The only bad part about Barcelona is that Catalans can be cunts sometimes, but so are Madrileños. And maybe that Barcelona is just a little more dangerous.
Madrileños are open minded, and more than half of them were born outside of Madrid.
Barcelona has sea, yeah, that's the biggest positive of the city.
My reasons for choosing Madrid over BCN after having lived in both:
-Madrid feels more important. It's a more serious city.
-Wider range of people in Madrid. From billionaires to niñas pijas like from the 50s.
-It has a brighter future. The city is growing non stop, meanwhile BCN can't grow because it's located between the mountains and the sea. In Madrid big new neighbourhoods are being built.
Comparing Barcelona to Madrid, to me, looks like comparing Valencia to Barcelona. And the real city has HALF the population.
Good to know where should I emigrate
Absolutely plebian
see You might be right but it's not due to the city's merit.
>No, maybe in the past, but not anymore.
What happened?
I'm from Santander, and I use to go to Madrid and Barcelona at least once a year.
I maintain myself. I don't think Madrileños are more open minded that Catalans. Half of Madrileños are fachas, while most catalans are liberals.
Barcelona is more world known and that's because it's more beautiful and has sea.
It also has more cultural offer, at least of what I like (Classical music, Opera, and motorsports)
I also like the location of barcelona, being relatively closer to europe.
However I think you are right when you say that Madrid has better future and feels more serious.
Also BCN is more tourist crowded.
That being said. When I think about a city to live in the future with my gf I don't know why but we imagine ourselves in Madrid, as if it was better.
I would give them a draw, but with Barcelona being slightly superior.
Barcelona will always hold a lot more influence in the international context thanks to it's tourism and visibility in the media however Madrid will be a better place to live.
We give over 10% of our GDP to poorer areas in Spain
>If Madrid had more opportunities
If we got all the money we produce we'll have those opportunities
>Spain trying to stay relevant
We're the 3rd most visited country in the world and the 2nd with the more cultural world heritage places, so we're pretty well known in some areas
Braga is still better
Good thing I'm actually an economist, and although I'm not a specialist in public finances I can tell you the benefits Madrid gets from having been the de facto capital of Spain for the better of the last 500 years are much, much larger than that. Almost impossibly hard to measure larger.
It simply does not work like that. If you had to return the money of the direct opportunity cost of state investment for the last 10 years it would outweigh your numbers.
>relevant thanks to tourism
So is fucking Rome and the Bahamas. That doesn't mean jackshit
well, depends how you rank Rome in terms of "relevance". I'd say it's more relevant than most USA for example, but I might be wrong...
It's a lot poorer and outside of the urban part it's poorly kept. If you go to the villages in Cantabria they are unbelievably well kept compared to ours.
Por favor diz me, é verdade que o maior mal de Portugal é a sua Constituição ?
I know , i shitpost when im sad.
Dont mind me
Não sou um Constitucionalista, mas a nossa é supostamente das piores da europa, pelo menos obriga a um estado socialista portanto boa não será de certeza.
Mas há tantas coisas más, precisava de uma folha de excel com muitos dados para te responder a essa pergunta.
Wasn't Mierdrid full of cokelombians?
Cokelombians who stay in Cokelombia are nice, but for some reason they tend to be one of the shittiest inmigrants (or at least they are like that in Chile).
It's not the fault of Bracarenses though, you do what you can with what you have. Personally, only a strategy like Daniel Bessa suggested can realistically save the north of the country, it's both extremely effective, realistic, and accommodating for unexpected problems.
all sudacas are the same shit
I agree, but mind that manolos are sudacas by extension.
VIVA MADRID
>Mas há tantas coisas más, precisava de uma folha de excel com muitos dados para te responder a essa pergunta
Podias numerar as mais importantes?
>California is better than Madrid
Jesus Christ, Madrid must be a shithole.
>strategy like Daniel Bessa
Eu quero lêr sobre isto mas não encontro nada no google
O "jeitinho" português (Portugal não é fundamentalmente "corrupto" em termos da big corruption quando comparado com espanha por exemplo mas o jeitinho aqui é doentio), o atraso na educação da população, más decisões por parte do governo ao nível da gestão interna e externa ao longo do séc. XVIII para a frente entre as quais o periodo pós 25 de Abril, seriam as principais.
Basicamente, o governo determinaria a dimensão de uma cidade em portugal tal que o benefício marginal de mais um indivíduo seja desprezável. Depois escolheriam-se um conjunto de povoados com valor histórico verdadeiro ou valor estratégico, e o resto da população ia para as cidades, cada distrito do país contaria com pelo menos uma cidade altamente competitiva no panorama europeu.
E dou lhe razão, o "sprawl" à volta de Braga por exemplo ou Ponte de Lima é ridículo e nunca deveria acontecer. Trás-os-Montes e Beira Alta então nem se fala, basta veres um mapa de Portugal do espaço para perceberes que a população está demasiado dispersa de uma forma não competitiva.
Por exemplo, consegues ver o outline do norte de Portugal na imagem, não deveria acontecer.
Madrid is full of Spanish people though, and Spanish people suck
CHI
Cheers cunt, but fuck large populous cities here lad, go 100km in any direction from a major city.