Hola, mi señora elegante🌹

I’m a french woman and I’m thinking of moving to another european country (long term) in the next couple of years. Spain and particularly Barcelona caught my attention. I think it offers everything anyone could possibly want (good appartement at reasonable prices compared to Paris, sunlight, good food, beautiful languages, relaxed people, open to foreigners, dynamism, interesting architecture, compatible values and way of life, close to the sea, close to nature, etc…)

As I’m single, there is one thing I’d like to know that you can only find out by actually experiencing the country and that’s the “dating culture”. It’s not going to determine my choice but I would like to know a few stuff.

For example, I’ve noticed that between France and Italy, things are a little different. Even if the cultures of the countries appear similar, sometimes there’s fundamental differences.

So, I’d like to hear the experiences of foreigners who live in Spain (and can compare to another culture), spanish women who went abroad and maybe spanish men who are self aware (lol come on guys). I know it’s difficult to generalise like this but I’m curious to see what reddit has to tell me on this subject.

To give you a frame of reference, I’ve noticed in France (compared to other countries that I’ve experienced) we tend to :

– be more romantic and like to romanticise things without fearing it to be “ridiculous”. It’s like a game.

– men tend to not be too “crude” around women because it’s considered poor taste and rude.

– Women tend to be the crude ones lol

– we don’t really “date” we just “go out with someone” and you organically become a couple if kissing or sex happens unless it’s clear it’s leading nowhere or you said it beforehand.

– no one worries about when the appropriate time to have sex is.

– we are cold outside but affectionate with a lover (compared to anglos for example).

– we dont care about marriage.

– we’re not in a rush to have kids.

– we do a lot of things as a couple. Lads holidays (like in the UK) don’t really exist in France

– sexual compatibility is super important but that might be universal come to think of it.

How would you describe “dating culture” in Spain? Are people romantic? Do you have a lot of “nice talkers” in your country? What is considered acceptable? What’s not? Are you really as warm as you seem?