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hh | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I'm hosting a bunch of people from the US this week in Barcelona, and three of them didn't ask me before booking their hotel. As a result, they're staying right in the middle of the Barrio Chino. And as a consequence of that, I've already let them know that anything that happens to them and their property is on them, and that pick ups and returns at night to where they're staying are on them too.
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Cyph3rp9nk | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It is terrible what this beautiful city has become.
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hh | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It's just as you said, a lab experiment. Remember that Maragall, when he worked under Franco's mayor Porcioles, had already spent time "learning" in the US, and for decades after during his mandates and after all of Barcelona's mayors have had that type of international unelected cabal-like organization connections. It's been their sales pitch as a posterchild of international progressivism (socialism), in fact.

I could write a fucking book, but meh.
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hh | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 By the way, I'm born and raised in the old town -- six generations documented in this city. I can speak from direct experience. I chose to come back only because I am a literal expat, meaning I am employed by a foreign company with expat conditions. Otherwise, as a local? No fucking way.