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Barcelona is like the best combination of Marseille and Toulouse. Marseille for the gentle weather and the general layout by the sea, and Toulouse for the dense & ancient center with narrow streets, and for the student life.

But but but, Toulouse clearly wins in the student & bar life department: 120,000 students for a city of 420,000 (total metropolitan area: 1 million), while all of Catalonia has less than 140 000 students (and Barcelona city is 1,5 million people, and a total metropolitan area of 4.6 million)

=> In Barcelona, the alleged coolest student town in the world, students are diluted into the overall mass bouuuu houuuu whistle bouuu the crowd goes wild

Viva Tolosa!!

(it's time to fight people, it's time to fight!!)

by Alex in Toulouse on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:07:10 PM EST
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Hey, I'm all for Tolosa, y'know, but is this the thread to start a fight ???

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by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:17:44 PM EST
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I thought Tolosa was in the Basque country????

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:18:44 PM EST
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Tolosa is the Roman, and more importantly Occitan, name for Toulouse. But I think you're right about another Tolosa in the Basque country.
by Alex in Toulouse on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:31:22 PM EST
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just when things were calming down, you go incite ancient regional rivalries!! ;)

(heh, try to say that fast 3 times: ancient regional rivalries...)

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:55:53 PM EST
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I do not doubt that Tolouse is better for studen-bar life. It is like Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, norhte-west in Spain).. I think Santiago beats Tolouse on the ratio by far.

Nevertheless on disco-bar style night full of strudents and all kind of people and with different party styles.. I would say Barceloan beats them both....In number, diversity and ratio... there hardly any place with more disco and dico-bars than Barcelona in the Mediterraneum.....Maybe istambul they say...

Let's start the fight.....!!!!

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 06:08:31 AM EST
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