Lucia

AGE 34
OCCUPATION Journalist
FROM Langreo
LIVES IN Gijón
WORK IN Oviedo

«Most people who stay in Langreo are because they don’t have a job. I like the area, I have my family there. But it’s an effort. I work in Oviedo and my boyfriend is from Gijón. The price of housing, the leisure, the quality of life… It’s more worthwhile for me here. Especially now that we are going to have a child»

Challenges
- Price of housing and quality of life. «Leisure, sport, culture and shopping are enjoyed outside Langreo. It is not a nice, urbanised place, a good place to live with your family»
- Leisure, shopping, culture, social life. «In Langreo there are no sports facilities, public swimming pools, auditoriums or concert halls… It is impossible to make the area more dynamic. And apart from buildings, it would also be good to have a little bit of programming to be able to see a group, go to see a film…»
Opportunities
- Identity and roots. «The basin has something good, which is that it has a lot of identity. If we take all those values that are very positive in terms of identity, of the basin, and transform them to create something, we don’t need an innovative mega-company»
- Tourism and culture. «We could look at the Ruhr Valley (Germany), which was like Langreo, but in a different way. They didn’t keep all the jobs, but they had an attractive cultural offer, they promoted clean energies and they knew how to reconvert well»

Lucia

Challenges

Opportunities

Underlying perception

«Those who stay are mainly unemployed»