Originally Posted by
Shylok
Makes my stomach churn a little as I was headed to Barcelona to see how it was from the aspect of living there for 3-4 months a year. We enjoyed our last visit but that was just being a tourist. We checked out Valencia for a few weeks to see if we could live there, and it was very boring and slow. I just don't like the idea of having to be worried about getting robbed on a regular basis. I don't want to live in a heightened sense of alertness. I guess this is the trouble with some tourist heavy cities
So my vacation experience was I didn't find Barcelona to be any more crime ridden than any other large city. Maybe less so, to be honest, especially compared to cities in the US now. I dressed well, wore an expensive watch, and carrier a camera on my shoulder (not cross body or my neck even) everywhere I went.