Barcelona guides
The rest of this section answers “which area”. These answer the questions that come before it: what things cost, how renting works here, how the transport network actually behaves, and what to sort out in which order.
5 guides
Moving
Moving to Barcelona from the UK: which visa, and the NIE
Spain has more routes in than France does. Which one fits, and the two pieces of paper everything else waits on.
9 min read
Renting
Renting in Barcelona: the rent cap, the deposit and the tourist-flat argument
Rents here are capped and referenced to a public index. What that means in practice, and the local argument you are walking into.
8 min read
Money
What you need to earn in Barcelona
The hardest arithmetic of any city here: local salaries are low, rents are not, and a remote British salary changes everything.
7 min read
Transport
Getting around Barcelona without a car
A compact grid, a dense metro and one integrated ticket. The only real question is whether the hill or the port is between you and work.
7 min read
Moving
The paperwork you need first: NIE, empadronament and the rest
Spanish administration is not harder than anywhere else. It is strictly ordered, and doing it out of order costs weeks.
7 min read
Every checkable figure in these guides carries a source and a review date, and the tables inside them read the same datasets as the rest of the site, so a rent revision updates the guides in the same deploy. Where a figure could not be corroborated against a source we were willing to publish, the guide says to check it rather than quoting it.