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https://www.spainmadesimple.com/movi.../i-hate-spain/

Not sure what the author was expecting, the streets paved in gold or what...?

If you do not have any qualifications and do unskilled jobs, of course the pay is going to be low and job security will be non-existant, anywhere!

Mark604

He says - "I moved to Spain four years ago..." and later says, "When I first moved to Spain the currency was the Peseta."
As the Euro came in on 1st Jan 2002 and the Peseta stopped having legal status on 28th Feb 2002 I wonder about the rest of what he says..........
But more likely, how old is this article?

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Look at the comments at the end...

The oldest is from Jan this year...

Notdunroamin

Donkeys years!

Spain adopted the Euro in 2002 and talk of the 'recession' suggests 2007/8.

I hope the plonker is happy in UK, or wherever he is now, Spain won't have missed him.

Mark604

Unless you click below the last one where it says, "Older Comments".
I got back to April 2014 then got bored.

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Sounds like the author has a bit of a chip on the shoulder...

He thought he could just breeze into Spain, live on the coast in a nice resort and get paid megabucks for doing sweet fanny adams (no profanity intended)!

I bet he was a brexiteer to boot!

growinspain

This article / comments could and does get written by english expats in France and Italy who try to recreate britian where they move to

Rosemary

The article was also referred to in April 2016 in the quote below, so nothing original about this thread.

Rosemary

growinspain

It is just like the "grumpy old man" written in or on almost all brit expat websites or news print rags that circulate around expat hotspots.. Click bait with all the same story lines..

Rosemary

Sadly you are correct. Surely people could put their time to better use than searching for this sort of thing and wasting others time by putting it on here and other sites such as this.

Rosemary

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I think the author of the article was deliberately being obnoxious, in order to provoke a reaction.

Notwithstanding, the comments at the end continue to flood in, unabated, several years later….!

I like this one in particular…
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Shelagh Moore says
February 22, 2021 at 12:34 pmHmm. I think Nick summed things up perfectly. EXPAT . No one who is serious about moving to another country constantly refers to themselves as an Expat, nor do they spend all their time trying to live like they did at home, in a little Expat bubble. No, they spend years researching, learning the language, the history the culture, the laws, and then when they Do move, they call themselves an Immigrant.

Nerja is a dump. As are most of the Costas infected by Exprats.

I spent 13 years in Extremadura, where no one speaks English, there are no Tescos or Brit bars, because there are virtually no Brits just lovely Spanish Rural life. You can leave your car unlocked and the windows down; if you live in the campo, your front door open and it is like turning the clock back.

But I am not getting any younger and an injury left my mobility a bit dodgy, so I moved to one of the quiter Costas. The Culture shock here was worse than moving to Spain in the first place! The Grey Brigade. They live in their little ghettoes, have their silly little gardening and book clubs, their tea rooms and pubs and never meet a Spaniard if they can avoid it! It is like a giant Geriatric home. Fortunately I can Still avoid them, Just! But if you look at Nick’s attitude, it was obvious he was on a Fail. As for the woman who said they call them ‘Giddies’ she knows so little about Spain that she does not even know that the word is ‘Guiri’ ‘We call them Spiks’ Classy. She is an Uninvited guest in their country. I suspect she is the very same type who voted Brexit to get rid of ‘immigrunts’ in the UK.

I love Spain. I have Spanish friends who often ask ‘Are you sure you are English? You are like Us, you are not like Them!’

Spain is an incredible, beautiful country, with amazingly kind people, If you take the trouble and time to integrate and not become another geriatric in a ghetto. It’s an adventure! Each region is different, even every village is different. The food can vary between exquisite to ‘sustenance’ and the wine can vary from World beating to drain cleaner! But that is part of the fun. As for the ‘bad service’ it is only ‘bad’ if you are still stuck in an English mindset. Relax, accept it, and it does wonders for your stress levels! You suddenly don’t have any! I wish more people like Nick would leave to be honest. They are blots on the sunny landscape. If you are moving to Spain, please come with the intention of being an Immigrant, not an ‘Expat’ Life is for experiencing and learning, why shut yourself into a rather nasty little xenophobic bubble in Someone Else’s country? Then complain about Them? How Rude is that!

Moses2013

In fairness this is nothing unique to Spain or Britain. People here talk down Britain all the time, some Spanish hate Spain and other nationalities are no different and try to recreate their country with more benefits.
I've experienced the same in Germany and the Turkish moan about Germany, then the Germans in Spain moan about Spanish, the Spanish moan about Irish in Ireland and the Polish only shop at the Polish shop.
The Catalans moan about Spanish and the Spanish moan about Basques vice versa and the Chinese shop at the Chinese shop. I agree and at the end of the day there's no point moaning and you just tolerate different views. Then again a lot of foreigners think they are living the typical Spanish life and does that really exist?

tebo53

moses.

Steve

Rosemary

Well said.

For me living a typical Spanish life means living in an ordinary working town and living an integrated life with the locals.

Rosemary

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What is an "ordinary working town"?