Barcelona.
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- shaft0
You're pale? :) Now I understand how you managed not to learn Catalan staying here this long.. :)
I'm jealous too. Living in Barcelona is my dream, but the salary/rent ratio is ridiculous there.
Is living there and working for clients from Germany a reliable solution for you?
- VinceSoonInB0
yes. i am blond and pale. so its quite difficult not to be categorized as a "guiri". :)
Working for german companies here has one benefit and two disadvantages. first - the payment is good compared to the spanish level. the disadvantages are: you have to work alone - and i like to work together with people - and the second one is you have to stay in contect with your clients to be in their mind for new jobs. thats quite difficult from this distance.
Well , now i have to meet my catalan girlfriend for her lunch break. Hopefully she will teach me some more crazy words like "flipant" :))))
- ********0
looking for work? not to be negative, but along with the other thousands of unemployed youth in Spain. Multiple friends just left there due to it.
You for sure need a work permit and you better know someone that's going to pay you under the table or something. 9/10 chance they are going to deny a permit unless you are already being sponsored by a company or someone. If there are able bodied Spaniards that can do what you can do, then they aren't going to give you it. That's generally other countries policies.
- paraselene0
non-issue for eu citizens.
- ********0
Si, Senora
- paraselene0
dunno what that surfito is, tho.
- ********0
He's from Santo Domingo, but I think he grew up in the US.
El nuevo español del mundo es mucho diferente que el español en España
- shaft0
" El nuevo español del mundo es mucho diferente que el español en España
JazX
(May 18 05, 05:43)"¡Que va! Es castellano tambien. Lo differente y rraro es el Español tuyo. O mio ;)
- CaP0
just back from lunch, some japanese for me... well, if surfito is an american citizen, then things are not that easy for him (although not as difficult as if he was from other countries, for sure).
basically, he'd have to get a company to "sponsor" him, do all the paperwork, go back to the states and get his passport stamped, and then return to spain.
that's for the "legit" way.
- ********0
well he could avoid having to go back to the USA, but a lot of Embassies do that kinda sh*t to people. If he teams with the right company he might be able to get around it.
yo, yeah I was in Barcelona, circa 2001 for New Years Eve. fun
- CaP0
although i live here, i've never been in new year's eve.
a good party is approaching, though: saint john's. it hectic, fireworks and bonfires all over the place, it's ment to be a magic night (inheritance from old pagan times ;P)... and usually ends with swimming naked in the sea!
(at least for me...)
- paraselene0
el día de sant joan is a wicked party. especially in gracia! you'll have so much fun...
*turning green again
argh! no dia de sant jordi, no primavera sound, no sónar, no dia de sant joan...
ens veurem a nadal...
...potser.
:(
- ********0
ehhhh, I was a tourista, so I stuck close to Las Ramblas and such near the sea. Still lot of fun
- ********0
Be careful:
They make you wear a yellow hat if you don´t speak catalan.
- shaft0
NIN is going to play in BCN in June
Fock!
- ********0
NIN is from near me shaft
- shaft0
NIN is from near me shaft
JazX(May 18 05, 06:22)
-------------Then tallent must be in the air in your neighbourhood, I've got your CD too ;)
- ********0
hahhaah thats right forgot about that. no. talentless more or less here
- ********0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre… about a half an hour from here
- shaft0
NIN and Barcelona make a perfect pair, but unfortunately I'll be travelling elsewhere.
I'll go take a walk in the rain now. Leave you with my Barcelona pictures.
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