How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008
Is there a 500k+-population city in spain with a summer climate that's survivable for someone used to north sea climates?
I recommend you rather look into Portugal if you seriously plan to move. The people there speak much better English, are less racists overall and the climate in the large cities near the atlantic ocean is also milder.
Spain still has a post-fascist problem as contrary to Portugal they never had a clean cut from their military dictatorship.
P.s.: to all the spaniards reading this, please this isn't meant as a diss 😅
P.P.S.: to all the Portuguese down-voting: yes I know the housing market sucks and there are already too many rich northern europeans in Lisbon and Porto. But it's nice to be popular, no?
Portugal is lovely but has a big con, which is that the mean wage is lower than other countries in western Europe.
Why does it matter? western Europeans started buying everything that has a door in a nice location, which makes it harder to do so if your salary isn't at par with the other EU rich countries.
If you start working for a foreign company, your income would also be adjusted (in most cases) to the mean wage of your home office (even if you WFH).
There are exceptions were you are self-employed but still work for them in a full time regime, but that opens a different can of worms.
I'll love to be wrong though, if someone can correct me, Portugal is fantastic. :)
EDIT: Spain, Italy, Southern France, Greece, etc. all have the same issue IMO.
No, unfortunately I'm too poor to seriously plan to move. I just don't know how to cope with the far-right surge and the inactiveness (or rather anti-activeness) of those who could do politics against it here in Germany anymore and I'm daydreaming and making snarky comments to get my mind off of it.
Any of the cities of the Cantabrian Sea and the cities of Galicia
Spain
economy soar
(I'm not refuting anything, it's just that we are taught to look at economy as financial market or at least GDP growth and in that sense the title made me exhale at a slightly faster peace indicating slight humour since the 80s & 90s were some time ago ... and recent year or two it's just playing catch-up)
OMG! This is a non sequitor and not about this post in general but I just realized how to collapse comment threads which I could not figure out for the longest time. Again this is not about the comments here or anything but I like to exclaim epiphanies when I hit them.
