How the relevant dimensions are measured
Routine
The routine question captures the actual daily schedule pattern:
- Early to rise, home in the afternoon, early to bed.
- Late riser, late home, late to bed.
- Non-standard shift (hospitality work, rotating hours).
- No fixed pattern — changes week to week.
Barcelona has a large hospitality and service sector, a significant Erasmus community, and a general social culture that skews later than northern European norms. That diversity of schedule patterns is wider than in most cities — which makes explicit matching on routine more valuable, not less.
Noise level
The noise dimension covers how sound is used in the flat:
- Silence preferred most of the time.
- Background sound is habitual but not at high volume.
- Normal sound use, including high volume when the moment calls for it.
This covers music, series, work video calls, phone calls on speaker. In a Barcelona flat — which tends to be smaller than equivalent spaces in other cities — the impact of noise level on daily life is amplified. There is less room to retreat.
