{"id":8671,"date":"2021-04-22T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/?p=8671"},"modified":"2021-04-22T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T10:03:11","slug":"best-places-to-live-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/living-in-barcelona\/best-places-to-live-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Barcelona is a better place to live than London or Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<div class=\"row wpb_row row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column columns medium-12 thb-dark-column small-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner  \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper \">\t<div id=\"thb-team-45\" class=\"thb-team-row team-dark\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row style1 regular-padding\" data-columns=\"medium-12\" data-pagination=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"\" data-autoplay-speed=\"4000\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"thb-team-member small-12 medium-12  columns member_style4 \">\n\t\t<div class=\"team-container\n\t\t\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full thb-lazyload lazyload\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4.png\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4.png 400w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-12x12.png 12w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-90x90.png 90w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-370x370.png 370w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-20x20.png 20w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-185x185.png 185w, https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/New-Project-4-48x48.png 48w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"team-information\n\t\t\t\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"member-title\">Chen\u00e9 Koscielny<\/h6>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"job-title\">South African journalist<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<style>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"row wpb_row row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column columns medium-12 thb-dark-column small-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner  \"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper \">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><strong>Chen\u00e9 Koscielny \u2013 South African journalist and digital marketing consultant \u2013 examines what makes you fall in love with a city and why Barcelona is one of the best places in the world to live.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>What makes you fall in love with a city?\u00a0 How do you decide that this is the best place in the world to live \u2013 a place where you\u2019d like to grow roots after many years of drifting around the globe as an expat?<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure, wealth, natural beauty and healthcare are important factors, but what about other dimensions such as creativity, culture, diversity in people, food and ideas?<\/p>\n<p>Whether there is a chemistry with a city \u2013 depends on who you are, where you come from, your attitude to life and what you\u2019re looking \u2013 it\u2019s deeply personal.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why I lost my heart to Barcelona <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>After living in some of the world\u2019s most beautiful cities \u2013 including London and Paris \u2013 as well as Berlin, Geneva and Cape Town, I\u2019ve lost my heart to Barcelona after only a few months. I\u2019m not alone. Barcelona rates among the top 10 world places to live in the world and frequently beats cities such as London and Paris in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestcities.org\/rankings\/worlds-best-cities\/\">best world city listings<\/a> and this year is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>What foreigners like and dislike about Barcelona \u2013 is the focus of the\u00a0<strong>International Talent Monitor (ITM)<\/strong> \u2013 an extensive biennial survey of expats living and working in the city\u2013 organized by Barcelona Global.<\/p>\n<p>Now in its fifth year, the 2021 edition of the survey probes the loves and gripes of expats to help the organization lobby for improvements. It will be available online in May.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/english-newsletter-barcelona-global-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sign up to our newsletter<\/a> to get your link to the survey and to have your say.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the survey criteria, I believe Barcelona beats the likes of London and Paris hands down.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why life in Barcelona is better than London, Paris and other world cities <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>No miserable grey skies and actual fun things to do <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For me quality of life has a lot to do with how easy it is to enjoy yourself for free \u2013 such as access to Barcelona\u2019s many beaches, hikes in the Collserola and other nearby natural parks. And if you do happen to fancy a glass of wine or a bite to eat, the prices are reasonable enough \u2013 Euros 2.50 for a glass of wine and around Euros 12 for a very edible 3-course lunch menu, often including wine.<\/p>\n<p>The city reminds me of Cape Town, where the beaches and beautiful landscape \u2013 at least after the end of apartheid \u2013 are accessible to all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn London weekends involve a lot of shopping and drinking\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In London, apart from walks along the marvelous Thames or strolls in the much-loved, but to me rather uninspiring, (sorry\u2026) natural heritage parks during the two nice days of the year, weekends seem to involve a lot of shopping and drinking. Visits to the spectacular museums and galleries are fun, but unless you live in the city center it could take you half a day to get there. You couldn\u2019t easily combine that with doing anything else \u2013 like going to the beach!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou need a handsome expat package to enjoy Paris&#8217;s offerings\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paris\u2019s tourist sights are beautiful beyond compare, but eye-wateringly expensive and you need a pretty handsome expat package to enjoy the best offerings of the city of light. An average set menu at a non-touristy restaurant costs closer to Euros 20 and Euros 5 for a smallish glass of red wine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA meal will set you back half a month&#8217;s salary in Geneva\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Geneva you\u2019re surrounded by beauty and although a dip in the lake is free, enjoying a glass of wine and a rather unappetizing meal at a caf\u00e9 will set you back half a month\u2019s salary. You\u2019re looking at around CHF 30 for a menu in a very average restaurant and a very, very tiny glass of wine costs around CHF 7. My favorite tipple \u2013 Prosecco \u2013 costs CHF 15 per glass in many Swiss bars, compared to Euros 6 in Barcelona.\u00a0 Need I say more?<\/p>\n<p>Geneva is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.numbeo.com\/cost-of-living\/in\/Geneva\">88 percent<\/a> more expensive than Barcelona \u2013 no wonder we\u2019ve been feeling flush lately. As for skiing in the Alps, it\u2019s mostly reserved for the wealthy \u2013 let\u2019s not kid ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SAFETY \u2013 can you sleep soundly at night? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I left South Africa is the unacceptable level of violent crime<\/p>\n<p>No amount of natural beauty can make up for the risk of losing your life over a mobile phone. There are break-ins and worse in every world city, but I\u2019ve never gone to bed with the fear of being killed in my own home anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In Barcelona, we\u2019ve had our car broken into in our street and there have been reports of mobile phone thefts from cars around the school, but the city is still considered to be safe enough to let our teenage children roam around freely.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about political unrest are increasingly worrying foreigners, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/downloads\/bg_talent_monitor_report_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">results of the 2019 ITM<\/a> but locals say the sporadic unrest doesn\u2019t pose a real threat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making good money and living the life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The importance of having the chance to build a career and earn a good salary goes without saying and here the likes of London and New York still outperform Barcelona, depending on your age, rung on the career ladder, industry and ambition.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of living in Barcelona is relatively low and if you\u2019re lucky enough to be a salaried worker here, you may benefit from tax incentives such as the Beckham Law aimed at attracting foreign talent.\u00a0 Barcelona Global is working to extend these incentives to other groups of professionals who currently choose to go elsewhere because taxes are too high.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the key areas for improvement repeatedly noted by expats in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/downloads\/bg_talent_monitor_report_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous ITM reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having said this \u2013 as an expat trailing spouse who\u2019s always worked, Barcelona is one of the first cities where freelance doors opened quickly and easily, despite my limited Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>In Paris, a lack of French apparently made me unemployable and in London exorbitant costs of childcare and travel consumed most of my salary.<\/p>\n<p>In Geneva, my age and sex \u2013 a woman over 40 \u2013 counted against me and in the end made me start my own company, which was not easy by any means.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona is clearly a start-up-friendly city with great connectivity and less age and sex discrimination from what I can tell so far, though it\u2019s early days.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also wiser, tougher, more experienced, better at networking, more relaxed and no longer need childcare \u2013 all of which may have helped to open doors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creativity, friendly faces and joie-de-vivre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone has their own definition of culture \u2013 beyond museums and swanky galleries \u2013 but for me it also has to do with a creative spark, joie-de-vivre, an openness to life and willingness to share and connect.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the reasons why I love Barcelona \u2013 even in Covid-times.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has lived in Paris will know Parisians are anything but welcoming and as the only foreigners living in a conservative British neighborhood near London, we never quite felt that we cut the mustard, even after 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>In Geneva, we were confined to the expat bubble, despite our best attempts to integrate..\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Contrast this with Barcelona, and so far, my impression is that people are friendly, helpful and warm. I\u2019ve had more contact with locals than in all my time in Paris or Geneva after 8 months in the city \u2013 despite Covid restrictions. Like me, the Spanish love to be outside and enjoy good food and wine. They are sporty and love the outdoors. Add to that the affordability of a good meal, a good dose of Mediterranean sun and beautiful beaches and this for me, is as good as it gets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To good health!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019re getting on a bit, my husband and I are more concerned about access to decent health care \u2013 and Barcelona is known for its excellent hospitals and public health system.<\/p>\n<p>Most expats have private health care, but access to public health care is available to all and although you will need a friendly local to help you navigate the system at first \u2013 it offers everything you need at a very high quality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education and family life <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona has a good choice of international schools and Barcelona Global is working on include more affordable options too. \u00a0The standard of education \u2013 also at university level is excellent.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>So, is Barcelona perfect? <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Typical expat frustrations include bureaucracy, a slower pace \u2013 though I actually appreciate this too now, unaffordable accommodation and low salaries.<\/p>\n<p>No place is perfect, but at this stage of my life and for what I\u2019m looking for \u2013 it feels as if it offers me and my family the opportunity to enjoy life to the full \u2013 we can\u2019t really ask for more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHARE YOUR OPINION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why not help to make Barcelona an even better place to live for expats \u2013 by completing this year\u2019s International Talent Monitor survey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcelonaglobal.org\/blog\/english-newsletter-barcelona-global-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up to our newsletter<\/a> to receive your link to the survey in May.<\/p>\n<p>Results will be published in September.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African journalist and digital marketing expert Chen\u00e9 Koscielny, who lives in Barcelona, shares insider tips for expats keen to make local friends \u2013 including what NOT to say or do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182764262,"featured_media":8674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[20,274,279,275,277,282,295,284,291,28,294,273,292,271,293,297,287,281,276,278,285,272],"thb-sponsors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Barcelona is a better place to live than London or Paris<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What makes you fall in love with a city? 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