Yeah, I agree with your point, it’s just that you chose a pretty bad example. I happen to know the northeast pretty well because I moved here and I could go into detail about Oviedo, León or Coruña but I really don’t care enough about it to argue my point any further. I hope you have a nice rest of your day :)
I am unfortunately. It’s also unfortunate that it happens everywhere else in Europe. Having lived in Germany the minijobs situation is kind of similar. I lived in London for a couple of years too and I remember shit like that happening with internships at the company I worked for at the time and friends working at bars BTW, if you know of cases like that, you should report them. There’s a government anonymous report system and they do check the reports.
My bad, I somehow thought that was the average.
Still, it’s apples and oranges. Minimum wage is 1323€, way over the 1k you mention, you’d pay no taxes on that, and you could buy a house for as low as 20k in a smaller sized city like Ponferrada.
I’m not saying it’s not hard, I’m just saying Spain’s housing situation is nothing like in other places like the Netherlands or Germany. Your example was just a bit disingenuous. You don’t buy a 250k flat if you’re on median wage. But you can buy one almost everywhere else. It’s kind of like comparing prices London and some village in Wales.
Spain is huge and extremely concentrated in a few places. The housing crisis in Madrid and Barcelona could easily be solved by decentralization and moving national institutions to other places.
I’m sure personal finances play a role but that’s not the whole picture. There’s all sorts of sociological factors involved (tertiary education, women entering the work force in mass, contraception, etc.) People just don’t want to have as many children as before, if any at all, and there’s almost no social pressure in the other direction. It’s a global trend.
BTW, I’m in Spain and your numbers are all over the place. Median monthly salary pre-tax is 2400€. Greater metropolitan areas are more expensive re housing, but salaries are also higher. Outside of those housing is dirt cheap. 75% of the population own their home, compared to 65% in the UK for instance.
It’s just that they fly a flag of convenience, but the crew, apparently is mostly Russian.
Hong Kong flag this time.
Birds of a shitfeather flock together, Randy
There’s classicpress