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Beyond the cliché
Chueca is a neighborhood that has gone beyond the cliché of the "gay neighborhood" thanks to its own merits, although, I must admit, that part for those merits were investments in bars, shops and hotels for people with a lot of money. Sometimes the usual image turns into something even more dangerous: "a posh gay neighborhood".
The best way to lose this image is to sit down on the square and check out how things are in a neighborhood where flat rents are even higher than in other parts of Madrid: pickpockets, three hundred thousands unknown people asking for a cigarette, some euro coins or paper, club security guys in the middle of the day with the same unfriendly face and no one drinking in the streets.
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