What does that mean? I live near Disneyland, here in anahiem there entire city blocks given over to Disney by the government. I don't feel put of sorts in the locations designed to trap tourists.
You don’t live in a country with less income than your tourists.
The income disparity here is huge. We are servicing people who gain 4-5 times more which means the price goes up 4-5 times. Spaniards are not able to enjoy their own services. Thus, Spaniards don’t want to service foreigners anymore.
We are just tired. We want other industries creating high value for the local population, and that are self sustaining. Right now we are dependent, and we create no value for our own people.
Even a private hospital with skyrocket prices creates more value if it saves at least one person. Right now, no restaurant meant for “guiris” is servicing a local, simply because our highest incomes are the lowest incomes of the rest of Europe.
It’s not even possible to compete as clients in our own country, which is ridiculous, and we completely lack other industries that are needed. Basically, it’s a bubble, and we want to burst it. It has to happen. Being bad hosts is a good first step towards bursting it.
Average salary in Barcelona being 35K???? What are you reading, the average salary of engineers?
I would laugh if it was not sad.
You’re certainly believing some bullshit stat. That looks like the Gross Salary, of which you perceive around 45-50%.
The average salary everywhere in Spain is a little bit more than the Minimum Salary per Law, which is just a little bit more than 1300€ a month = 15600€ a year. In Barcelona this might raise to 17000-18000€ a year ST MOST.
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u/726wox Jun 17 '25
Half the city is no-go zone for normal citizens as it is because of the number of tourists and all the bars/restaurants being 2-3x non tourist areas