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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by sanedigital on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:51AM (#18165492)
I'd second this. Almost everyone in professional circles speaks English in Barcelona. I would say on average Portugal has much better English penetration than Spain, but Barcelona is definitely an exception.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by jonathanstrange on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:56AM (#18165522)
> I would say on average Portugal has much better English penetration than the rest of Spain

I'm sure it's just a slip of tongue but never ever say things like that in Portugal...

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by katzenjam on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:15AM (#18165650)
I think the GP intended "the rest of Spain" to mean "Spain excluding Barcelona", rather than "Spain excluding Portugal". But I read it as "Spain excluding Portugal" the first time too.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by bogomipz on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:15AM (#18165655)
I think you need to read both sentences together. I believe the OP is just excluding Barcelona from the comparison of English speaking between the two countries.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by andai on Monday October 08, 2018 @06:50AM (#18166212)
English(Portugal) > English(Spain − Barcelona)
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by severine on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:09AM (#18165604)
Yeah, Portugal isn't part of Spain.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by nailer on Monday October 08, 2018 @06:46AM (#18166186)
Weird historical fact: they shared a king for a little while a few hundred years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Union
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by sexydefinesher on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:32PM (#18170024)
"Why havent Spain conquered you yet?"
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