It's been already a month since I arrived to Lyon and I guess I start to have a brief idea of the different types of people you can find around here. In terms of nationalities, in Madrid you can normally see a lot of people from South America, a few Moroccan and a few Chinese people, however in Lyon I think there is a wider variety but with a clear predominance of North Africans. Something quite shocking about this population is that a lot of them continue to wear their regional clothes (burqa, veil, etc.) which are completely different from the occidental way of dressing.
Apart from this visual shock, the experience with the people has been very good. In general everybody has been very kind and we had no problem with anybody for any moment. The people here seem to like the foreigners and they try to understand you and even to talk to you in English if they see you straggling with French. However the general feeling is that you are in a big city, so don't expect unknown people starting long conversations with you on the street, people is busy and always in a hurry.
It sounds very interesting, is a real change about Madrid and is good to know that the people makes an effort to be welcoming and nice there.
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