Are catalunyan's freindly ??

Question

iam an egyptian person who might live in spain and i was thinking about barcelona . i wanted to know are catalans open for outsiders to live in barcelona and are they freindly ?? thank you very much

Answer 1

Not very much, I'm afraid. And even less if you don't speak their dialect, Catalan, which most of us Spaniards don't speak :)

Answer 2

In general they aren't too friendly to outsiders, although I did run into some nice people there. I am American and was in Catalunya on 9/11/01 -- (9/11 happens to be Catalunyan Independence Day) Some people were very sympathetic but others seemed that they couldn't care less --- people wer nicer in Girona than in Barcelona.

Madrid is a much friendlier city -- but you must be aware that many people in Spain are not too keen on Arabs at the moment.