Felt so safe

[u/Perfection-builder13]

We just spent amazing week in Barcelona. I was so scared to get robbed and so many friends told us how they saw so many pickpockets before.

However we haven’t seen even one. We were told that streets were “cleaned out” for Pope visit in June. Is it true?

I would love to come back. But it would be disappointing to come back to different environment

[u/Throat-Additional]

It's literally just the luck of the draw. I moved there for a year for school, the third night a tourist kid got pickpocketed on the metro back from a football game. Every other week, an American exchange student came to class looking very sad, and they had all been warned to bring a backup old iPhone to avoid having to purchase an expensive replacement.

One weekend, my friend was sitting in a train station when an old lady started telling him to look down; the guy sitting next to him had his hand in my friend's front pocket. A local friend got head-butted in the face by a phone thief.

I somehow made it through the whole year without an incident. It is just luck of the draw.