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(5,902 posts)Real GDP which hasn't grown in 15 years and unemployment at 21% doesn't usually attract too many migrants (except perhaps from Morocco).
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,705 posts)So i wouldn't advise anyone go there.
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)I LOVE Spain...
phazed0
(745 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)may have to return home. It is very liberal of Spain to welcome British refugees. (We all know that conservatives are not big on the whole refugee thing.) Greece has done the same to decidedly non-British refugees and their economy is even worse than Spain's.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)How many British expats are living in Spain now?
And -- I'm guessing -- it's not because they like tapas.
Nor because they lost their way to Gibraltar.
maxsolomon
(33,284 posts)In Spain, Portugal, France...
IronLionZion
(45,411 posts)For British expats in Spain, Brexit is a cloud over the sun
There are more British residents in Spain than any other part of Europe and no one knows what will happen to us if Britain leaves the EU
Berni Armstrong, an English singer-songwriter who was born and brought up in Lagos and has lived much of the rest of his life in the Catalan town of Capellades, has just become an Irish citizen. This is because under Irish law, if you have at least one Irish grandparent, you are eligible for citizenship. Armstrong, having had the requisite relative, recently decided to apply. I know of two other British residents of Catalonia one of whom I dont think has so much as clapped eyes on the Liffey who are doing exactly the same thing.
Analysis Will Brexit mean a Brit expat exodus?
Fear of a vote to leave the EU, and in its wake healthcare and pension losses, is driving Britons from the continent back to the UK, says a broadsheet
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Earlier this week, the Times reported that 100 British expats are leaving Spain every day. But it failed to add that many of us are desperately trying to stay by finding alternative ways to remain within the EU, should the British in Britain (or perhaps just the English in Britain) decide to slip their European moorings on 23 June.
There are nearly 760,000 British residents in Spain (according to the BBC) or 380,000 (according to the Independent) or 319,000 (according to the Daily Telegraph): either way there are more British expats in Spain than any other part of Europe. Most of them are based on the islands or along the coast, and many are retirees who live in linguistically gated communities and have little or no contact with the local populations.
British people are everywhere. In all sorts of countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_migration_to_Spain
In 2014, the officially registered British-born population of Spain numbered 300,286
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)(Company name withheld)
We have a team in Madrid that reports to the London office.
Oh, and the manager of that office, she's from Madrid.
tirebiter
(2,535 posts)an influx of money can generate more jobs.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Please tell me you didn't mean THAT.
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)It was the part about jobs I'm still not quite getting.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Night Watchman
(743 posts)Marcuse
(7,475 posts)While the Brits try to defend the Falklands from Argentina, Spain could move on Gibraltar.