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I have too many hobbies that take space to live in a place like Barcelona. Where do people work on their hobby car or motorcycle? Where do you do woodworking? Where do you keep your boat or paddle board? Do they have gardens? What about an outdoor kitchen for grilling and smoking? Do their kids have bicycles and scooters and skateboards and baseball gear?

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Join a club for the sports stuff. There's a few nice sailing clubs in the Bay Area where they keep the boats and the gear there (some have lockers). There are motorcycle garages and storage units for race vehicles, parks, vacation homes, and get-togethers with opportunities to cook outside. Skateboards fit in closets. For wood/metalworking, there's stuff like TechShop.

It's not practical to live in a city and have a pole barn with a station for each different hobby, but you can still do a lot and make it work. Sometimes it ends up being pretty expensive, e.g. Keeping an extra car in the city could be ~$300/mo in the case of SF, but car storage around say Laguna Seca can be quite a bit cheaper.

And I live out in the burbs because I want to do all that stuff. My point was that for some of us, suburban life is a great fit.

Yes, people in Barcelona smoke, grill, have hobbies, bicycles, etc.

That's not really what my point was.

Seriously, come visit!

I've started watching An Idiot Abroad and I think I share a lot with Pilkington (or at least the character he plays on that show) when it comes to travel. I don't really like to travel. Twenty years ago, I was in to it but now it feels like a phase I grew out of.

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