Spain's population dilemma: Country grapples with vanishing towns
Vložit
- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- According to government statistics, half of Spain’s municipalities are at risk of losing their population. These are primarily towns of fewer than 1000 people. But the data shows this issue is no longer confined to just rural areas. People are also moving out of provincial capitals and small to medium-sized cities.
To reverse the trend, this year, the European Union gave Spain more than $11bn for a “repopulation program”.
The goal is to provide small towns with more basic services, high-speed internet, and funding for housing and job creation.
Al Jazeera’s Natasha Ghoneim reports from Prat de Comte in the Catalonia region, Spain.
- Follow us on Twitter: / ajenglish
- Find us on Facebook: / aljazeera
- Check our website: www.aljazeera.com/
#Spain #SpainDepopulation #SpainGhostTowns
This happens in Greece from 80s. 2 cities has gathered the 65% of entire population. Are countless villages all over country with no single one person. And hundreds villages with less than 50 residents. The only good effect of this is natural landscapes became even better that before.
Perhaps the govt could invest to turn these locations into bird sanctuaries, grow some cactus or rare trees that make them attractive to tourism. The Japanese sometimes turn empty villages into handcraft centers and IT we work type communities. Rent is cheaper and internet connection is already Wi Fi.
@@ossiebekman7043 Great idea if you ask me it'll probably save them from this bankruptcy situation they've been in for the last so many years
@@ossiebekman7043 turkey has enough headaches of their own…lol
@@ossiebekman7043 Maybe Greece can give you something to eat judging by the situation of the turkish economy....by the way , I am surprised you write without hesitation under Erdogan's regime
@@ossiebekman7043 Greece has always been Greece, always will be. Since antiquity.
Rural towns like these are heaven for reclusive people who want to live with minimum of contact with other people.
*Spain is a rich and highly developed country. They can stop this from happening if the politicians were more interested in tackling the issue. What a shame*
Search Rural Spain is like other country
How?by giving people more money so they can go to vacations,have sexual adventures,wasting their 20's,alcahol,drugs,homosexuality,ect....
Western societies are morally corrupt this is why they're collapsing
*There no civilisation without morals,there's no morals without God*
this is like so many towns .. my grandma's mountain top village in Portugal has same issue. young leave for cities & jobs, only elderly remain.
abandoned homes & poverty.
You have to also factor in increasing aging population with decreasing new births. The economic fluidity is slowing down compared to 20 years ago. Its a sad state. Maybe lowering taxes in rural areas with grant aid will help.
@@momurda6 Meanwhile wealthy Ukrainians, Russian and Chinese are buying entire villages.
Spain and Portugal never be the same again.
@@onlythetruth4039 karma
@@357-swagnumultramagax9 why karma?
@@357-swagnumultramagax9 Karma would have most of the wealthy losing their wealth, not acquiring more of it through acquisitions...
It’s crazy how we pack ourselves into tiny cage apartments in the big city. But there is all this land out there. Just need better services and amenities. And jobs!
What's bad is that corrupt politicians doesn't care about rural areas.
They don't even bother to get internet connection there.
I wouldn't mind living in a small town like this If I could work 100% remotely.
No, you stay in your polluted city
@@hemant05 Do you know which "polluted" city I live in?..
@@pragueexpat5106 Moscow?
@@hemant05 Let me guess, you see a my name written and Cyrillic and immediately assume I'm Russian right?, well, to your credit at least you can recognize Cyrillic when you see it, blissful ignorance must be such a bliss..
Now you can work remotely, if not there are good conexión by fiber you have Starlink
I really appreciate Al Jazeera and all they have done along the years. This is what real journalism looks like, reporting what is going on in the world.
This seems to be an issue in many countries. Hope it works out. I loved the smaller towns I visited in Europe
It'll help some, except the bigger reason for the problem is the younger generations stopped having kids lol
@@Montfortracing doesn't matter if people have lots of kids. People migrate out of rural places as soon as they have the opportunity.
@@AsiaMinor12 yeah since it's mostly the big cities that offer more opportunities. My parents country in Congo has the same problem, everybody especially the younger people move to places like Kinshasa because there are more jobs there.
I can see a happy future for towns like this with the Internet and electric vehicles to move around freely.
Maybe when they develop better batteries for electric cars. Right now they're no better for the environment than gas cars.
someone said this when the bicycle was invented lol. Human optimism.
Can't use vehicles there.... Streets very narrow.
There's internet already, not even those borned there want to live there.
Agenda 30 doesn’t work like that! 😉
Especially since the pandemia, the world is shifting rapidly toward more people working remotely from anywhere in the world including little paradises like this town.
...only if there is internet...
Bullshit
@@jlm1567 Yeah like im not paying minimum wage for you to stay at home i need you to come to the office.
Good, we need to end mega cities bc it promotes all the worse aspects of humanity
@@kevinkirby4305 The planet is over-populated (infested with the human virus).
I love random documentaries like this. Wish it was longer
An old story.
In 1619 Count Gondomar returned home from his role as Ambassador to England.
Everywhere he saw villages abandoned and was horrified.
Peasants paid 3 lots of tax - to the king, the Church tithes, and the landowner.
Nobles and Priests paid no tax.
Peasants were barely subsisting, so moved to the towns - which had up to 40% indigent poor living on charity.
TOWNIES VAMPIRES SUCKING OFF THE RURAL HEARTLAND
Most of Andalusians resident forced to leave, some forced to Christianity
Sounds like the US
And…
@@adelking66 "Expulsion of the Moriscos"
1609.
Cervantes said, "Even the Spanish military, who were inured to violence, felt pity for the families being forced into exile"
The Moriscos were provoked into rebellion by Bernardo Rojas Inquisitor General.
It was such a disaster for the Spanish economy that Madrid contemplated bringing them back LOL
You have to laugh at the stupidity of Madrid.
They had all died of hunger, been forced into slavery in North Africa, or resettled throughout Europe & Byzantium.
This is a problem not just by rich countries but also by emerging countries. Japan, Korea, and even China, has saw their population migrating to cities and leaving countryside under populated. And this is becoming a global trend. People move in to big cities because of job security.
Managing a farm is an around the clock work. Each year there is less and less people that qualify to live from the land and not die trying.
Living in a stone box, with no insulation or modern amenities is hardly wanted by modern people. Nostalgia is for people with money who can afford it. Sometimes beautiful to see, and nice to visit, but you would not want to live there.
I would love to live in one of these Spanish villages. Spain has great weather, architecture, and food.
How would you make 💰
But no people
remote work. countries really ought to lean into that harder.@@tbraghavendran
Those vacant houses are just total ruins .it would cost a fortune to rebuild them
@@theotherspain I appreciate your comments in this thread and the information provided from your experience. Information the media rarely provides. Regards from Canada.
I'd love to live there.
Believe me you wouldn´t when you get there haha. I live in a Spanish town about 7000 and I am moving to Cordoba a small sized city next week because it is crazy boring here and just misrable. I come from Denver originaly so I am used to cities, but I can understand why any young person wouldn´t want to step foot in these villages. People stare at you all the time, even if they know who you are, actually that is a Spanish thing, it is called the Spanish stare haha. But it isn´t really that, more so the lack of services. They close theirs shops from 2 to 5pm every single day for a siesta which drives me crazy. They only serve food after 8.30pm to eat dinner and there is not take out if you want it before that, there are no shops open on a Sunday, period. Maybe the bakery for a few hours. The boredom will kill you slowly. I have a car and the city is only like 35 mins away but you still got to get through traffic and all that BS so in reality it isnt practical.
@@lisashhotwife2732 This is a Catalan village, not a spanish one. Things work differently
@@lisashhotwife2732 It is true ... boredom does kill you slowly but before you die, aside from physical health degeneration, it can progressively make you crazy.
@@lisashhotwife2732 try read a book, or take a walk.
@@rao803 ???different ... walk backwards or something?
Just realised I’ve been close to that town. The neighbouring town (Horta de San Juan) is where Pablo Picasso spent about a year of his life. And this town is located in a wine region. So if you love wine…
Japan has exact opposite problem, people are leaving cities
Even USA
Japan is 380.000 km2 and has 125 million people
Spain is 500.000 km2 and doesnt even have 50 million people
Tokyo population is decreasing
Japanese should leave their offices first
@@sudhirghosh_ Population of Japan is decreasing .
Covid has been a blessing in that sense. I'm happy to see people move out of the concrete jungles.
I live round the corner from the village featured. A fine region indeed. A shame no mention made of the huge role that non-Spaniards have made in keeping up numbers, properties and taxes. Certainly more than the number quoted have moved in and around Prat!
What is Spain's general view on immigration from other western countries and are policies friendly to immigration?
If you don't mind answering....are people just moving to the large cities or are they leaving Spain altogether?
I would love to move to this area. It sounds wonderful. Can you send me me informationon this. I'm ready to leave my city. I think I have a lot of offer to this area.
@@MrSupernova111 they treat the biggest spending foreigners very badly and with discrimination, the Brits, and they are leaving in droves, even turning them away at airports post Brexit, crazy
@@kippsguitar6539 . Yikes! Thanks!
As an introvert,i would love to live there.
I grew up in a remote area and it's a wonderful way to live. You develop an independent nature, no need to constantly hang on someone for your happiness.
I guess we are on same boat , my pal
@HunterBidensCrackPipe Donald you done ?
@HunterBidensCrackPipe tell that to Trump
@HunterBidensCrackPipe truth hurts 4 u my friend. U spent all youre life staying with a woman that doesnt love u for what u are.
Raising children is insanely expensive! No one is trying to be poor and broke af for the rest of their lives.
spot on.
Parenting is the most unique feeling one can get.
That's why us african are multiplying
Raising children has always been expensive, it's just that the new generation (in their 20's) are greedy.
@Ritchie less money, less opportunities and prospects, less access to contraception, less education, less access to quality healthcare and nutrition (which together means greater incidence of childhood mortality and the attempt to compensate by having more children). Plus each child, though imposing immediate burdens and expenses, is also a long term opportunity for possible economic improvement via education, work, and/or marriage… _possible._ All this combines into a propensity for having more children than folks who are economically better off.
This report is 50 years late. This happened long ago. The curious thing is that some people are moving back. The mayor did not say that the education was high quality but "proper"; meaning proximate, or relatable (stretching a bit). The town's name is "The count's meadow".
Some people are moving back but it's not going to be enough. These villages are vanishing at an alarming rate. They are just retirement centers at this point. Most of these villages are just old people waiting to die.
No jobs no future,
It doesn't matter how fast the internet is or how many millions the EU sends as funding.
I think the EU and Spain should be pragmatic and just let nature take it's course with these villages. These villages should just rot away and become part of the environment. It's just unrealistic at this point to keep these empty places alive if there's no real human use for them. People aren't going to mass populate the countryside because there's no need for them to work those lands anymore.
I live in a small town in the UK and we have the opposite problem so many more people now, the local council cant build schools quick enough
Same here where I live in the US. Everyone wants to live in this small town the roads can hardly handle the traffic.
@Timothy TwoTwoThree but I like them
@Timothy TwoTwoThree i doubt it, uk will be majority middle easter by 2050. Theyrr london city boss sadiq khan is indian. English people got conquered and replaiced by immigrants, not by military force.
@@eunanavesani6074 Hi do you have any stats to back that up? Thanks
@@Ayo.Ajisafe no stats, just news. I heard a few townsup nort england are completly indian.
The people living in the villages can just work remotely. Improve the internet coverage in the town and the problem will solve itself.
In Ireland, the people I know in the small Irish speaking areas call this 'bánú na tuaithe'.
Ireland's population is at it's highest point since pre 1840 (when a famine wiped out the majority of the poor people in the west of the country via death or emigration), but it is only for the cities and larger towns. The rural areas have less people than they did a hundred years ago when we had millions less people in the country. All of the post offices and banks in rural areas are closed or closing down.
The only people buying houses in the 'Irish speaking areas' I mentioned above are wealthy people from places like Dublin or abroad, to the extent that you rarely hear Irish spoken there anymore because the young people can't afford to stay there and had to emigrate (abroad or to cities like Dublin) like countless generations before them while English speakers from other parts of the country get the houses
The movement to tackle this issue is called 'Todhchaí na Tuaithe' but the Dublin based RTÉ media never give the issue any attention, only the Irish language news sources like Tuairisc and Radio na Gaeltachta even report on their actions and wishes properly.
Like all rural areas experiencing this, such as in Spain, the urban middle class who have the population numbers and the democratic power that gives them, as well as control of the National medias, they don't care.
Neoliberal economic policies are at the root source of this problem
Sad but there is a lot of derelict houses that should be sold to solve the housing
Young people from rural Ireland emigrate abroad? Ireland has like the second highest inequality adjusted human development index on Earth.
Lots of rich California people doing the same in the country parts of the USA too...Money can never buy you happiness
Spain is a beautiful country ❤
I'm from Uttarakhand state (India) and we have similar problem in hill regions of Uttarakhand.
During COVID situation many have gone back due to loss of jobs and people who can buy land via domicile are buying more land in UK now for better or worse.
I would move there in a second if I could. My ideal place is the French country but with the way our econ is going, many people can work from home so build that high speed internet and I’m sure people would relocate
The thing is, they won't let you.
@@lisasummers1163 what do you mean? I’ve seen plenty of places such as Italy allowing people to move there. Why would Spain be different particularly w depopulation in these small towns
The word you re looking for is Venezuela. They already catholic and they speak Spanish. Two million venezuelan refugees from Colombia, couple of hundred A380 express flights and we re in business ppl. Empty cities my left foot.
Smartest suggestion ever
Many "venezolanos" have come to Spain in the last years, but they use to live in the big cities, not in the " España vaciada" (emptied Spain).
Btw, in Spain there is 100% freedom of religion and, FORTUNATELY, more and more Spanish are becoming agnostics or atheists.
@Alberto not fortunately, lose of faith produces lose of births.
Give it high speed internet, nice food, and job opening it will be crowded in no time. Especially with such beautiful scenery
High-speed internet is doable, but nice food and job openings as well?! NO WAY!
Remote working and delivery by drone is probably the only way these remote villages and towns can see people again.
Employ and I'd gladly move here and work hard in the hope of finding a happier existence than I currently have.
Best bet? Go there for a vacation for month or so. If you find something, send SMS to your employer ;-)
Why do you think people left?
Maybe you should encourage people to build families directly instead of more internet service for single people….
I went Europe and I saw old people who don't have someone to care them. Bcz All of their lives they used to date
@@blessingchanne1866 yeah I should make babies now
Where are you from ?
I’d consider moving to rural Spain to start a business, but I know good English (non boozing folk) lived in Spain more than 20 years and still not accepted by locals, in fact discriminated against. So I’m not going to consider a move there.
I honestly wonder why?
"Population deserts" = places where villages are vanishing. I've seen many videos on this issue, it's present in Japan, Spain, Greece, Italy...
china
Well guess what, fertility has been and is decreasing, and it's gonna get a whole lot worse.
@@mysterioanonymous3206 I wouldn't say it's necessarily bad, governments just need to learn how to work with that.
@@mysterioanonymous3206 Yea because people eat high carb diets.
It is by far more sustainable and cheap to give all the services that modern societies demand at cities than in rural areas. Doctos hospitals education roads you name it.
13 people had moved)))
All that wealth Spain exploited from the "new world" and they don't even have internet 🤣
@Limon Cello In some villages like this one they don't. And some times the electricity/water system don't work for a little while. Stop being so stupidly proud of yourself and your nation and start to realize what problems are there.
That shows in fact that colonialism isn’t the best way to get wealth.
@@adamnesico colonialism was a really good way for Spain to get wealth. But Spain mismanaged the huge wealth from the Americas, leading to its downfall.
Such quiet, beautiful historical villages would be paradise for many people....perhaps for a few years, perhaps for a life-time.
Once the improvements and the incentives and the news about these quaint villages get out...there might be a population
boom!
this is a Nash equilibria, there is no economic activity to perform there, so those villages can remain as countryside homes or summer houses or something like that
That's why they need arabs.
@@jamesbond4810 no thanks arabs want to make a next arabia everywhere they go
@@davidjoelsson4929 What's wrong with Arabia ? Look at all those palaces we had built over these years, all those progressive developments (Although some might argue workforce comes from India, but the idea is ours).
@@jamesbond4810 But we want our countries to be remain ours not arabia. We don't want your cheap oil architecture skyscrapers like in UAE. we want to have our countries remain european and if you have a problem with that you should leave
@@davidjoelsson4929 Well your countries will remain Europeans if you guys reproduce more. Since you guys are not having babies anymore that's why your governments are inviting us.
Declare it as a holy land promised by god to a certain group n it will be populated in no time
🤣🤣🤣
but even chews are not having that many children.
EXACTLY!!!💯💯💯
The Israeli government will bomb your house because of "Hamas" tomorrow. Be careful
😂😂😂
Is that near Joncera, the redlight strip?
Just to clarify, the EU did not give Spain special money to combat this because this is happening in most other EU members as well. Spain decided on its own to allocate €11 billion (out of €140 billion) of post-COVID EU recovery money towards this cause.
But, how would it be used to encourage people to move into places without jobs ?
No matter what, I always prefer living in a countryside as long as it is self sustainable.
This is the wierd and wonderful results of pushing family planning programs on unsuspecting communities.
Pongan el sitio de web con toda la información.
Very interesting. I used to have a casita in Cereceda (provincia de Burgos: population 40 + several dogs). All it takes is installation of high-speed internet and life will return to these beautiful villages.
Yeah they lack population but don't have enough jobs or a large enough economy to support a large population. Spain is just on the point. I have seen so many people try to live in Spain but get disappointed because they get no work.
Sounds like perfect place to move to. Will check it out more.
Make everything cheap, make money a non-issue, population will boom
I am not sure about that. Post WW2 part of the reason there were so many births was that people married younger and therefore had more fertile years to procreate; then both birth control and abortion were relatively hard to access. You can't have a population boom when people are delaying marriage and when abortion and contraception are widely available (I am not taking position for or against anything, just describing the situation).
"13 people moved here in the last year, the advertisement campaign seems to be working". I shudder to imagine if it didn't work.
Why don't they invite some of the poor folk from the countries Spaim robbed blind during the colonial era?
No.
1. Spain is already full of latinamerican immigrants.
2. The countries that today form latinamerica didn’t exist before the conquest.
3. Spanish colonialism was quite different from other depredator european colonialism.
@@LadialecticaLadialecticaexcept Mexico, Mexico exists before Spain
Future of most of our industrial civilization.
Good Internet is the key...
I live in Spain and would love to visit here
If Spain will give me a citizenship i would love to live in that place 😂
No papi only hispanic people
@@chinchanchou stop being racist 😒
@@chinchanchou u are not Even european u are latino
Without basic facilities ? 🙄
My great grandmother was a mestiza Filipino/Spanish we actually have relatives living in Madrid
Fast flying transport drones should remedy this problem in 10 to 20 years
More internet economy and remote work opportunities will solve this problem. Funding for housing and job creation simply never worked))
The templars of the old times were a good steward I believe they should be asked to help preserve these old towns and help makes these towns food and livestock producing places. Citizens of former Spanish colonies may be ideal for this Templar project.
People say there is overpopulation
Let me tell you, we are actually underpopulated in the next 10-15 years
There is inequality between villages and cities
If there are jobs in the village, there is no need to migrate to the cities and creating high density areas.
So true! Gates keeps saying that the world is overpopulated and we have to do something about it.
This village looks like heaven to me.
I am just sick of overpopulated country
In America not only the rural areas see declines, but vast urban areas have also been abandoned. In a time when one with knowledge and a fast internet connection can provide needed worldwide services, what is keeping people paying outrageous prices for bad living conditions in certain areas, while some rural Paradise is left wanting? Is it government? Is it corporate greed and control? Is it rural politics?
11 billion bucks and 13 people moved in
This is among the top best thing that has happened in spain in the las 70 decades.
The death of your people?
Why?
I live in a medium-big city that is not Madrid or Barcelona but is the second city in Spain with the highest salaries. Many of my collegues of work cone from rural areas of Spain who came here seeking better jobs, services and oportunities. And well, more anonimity. After all gossip in towns is also a major issue. I cant blame them. My city is around 1 million people and has all the benefits and services of a big city with all the benefits of not being too big of a City like Madrid or Barcelona (like big commutes, polution, overcrowding etc). But i am worried if rural spain gets depopulated we might be next. What people need to do is having more kids and the government provide for more services in rural towns starting by making them more appealing through better connectivity and more modern infraestructure.
I wonder how much a property is worth and how expensive is living there? Sounds interesting. As for the internet that will be resolved within the next 5 years.
Same in Italy!
This is a global phenomenon. Happening everywhere just a different rates.
I would love to live their in such a peaceful environment 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Hay empresas, por ejemplo en Valladolid, Zaragoza, Ciudad Real (ciudades de regiones con este problema), con 25, 50 o 200 empleados, a las que se podría reducir impuestos o incentivar de otra manera, si se radicaran en comarcas más apartadas (si el tipo de trabajo lo permite). 25 o 50 familias pueden salvar varios pueblos, y animar a más gente a venir. Se pueden hacer varios círculos alrededor de una ciudad como Valladolid, primero llenando pueblos medio abandonados a unos 25 km, luego 50 km, 100 km. Porque a medida que los círculos más cercanos se hacen más prósperos al llenarse de gente, es más fácil que vayan animando a poblar zonas más lejanas, mientras se van creando carreteras mejores, líneas férreas de cercanías.... Pero hay que ponerse ya.
I love to move in ☺️
that's why Spain is allowing people from it's former colonies like the Philippines and Latin American countries to become Spanish citizens after 2 years of residence in Spain
Im filipino, planning to move there .. 😂
@@alexisvladimir8148 if you have a lot of money, not problem, if you haven't you'll be treated like trash.
They use this people to colonize non spanish-speaking lands just like Catalonia
@@chubbygardener kinda understand that part...lol, its even shittier here in Philippines wether you have money or not
@@rao803 Fascislonia you said? For 40 years, Jordi Pujol, the Catalan president wanted Muslim immigrants who did not speak Spanish so that they could learn Catalan directly. Now they are paying the price of being one of the European regions with the greatest implantation of Islamic radicals. The Barcelona attacks in 2017 did not happen in that city by chance. You reap what you sow.
There's a lot of people in northern Europe who'd be happy to move to these warm Spanish villages for retirement or second homes
We want young people not old men searching a geriatric.
I’d love to go
I live in rural Spain (Galicia, nearest city Santiago de Compostela). It is nice and quiet here, you can have a nice garden where you can grow vegetables, fruit trees & flowers. Many services are available like: excellent internet, garbage collecting point, clean drinkable water, good electricity, security/police nearby, a town clinic nearby, and in the center of the biggest village (5km from where I live) there are many shops, restaurants/bars and bank offices.
The only problem I have found living here is the small amount of public transport (and with the pandemic they have even reduced the frequency of transport services). The train station is very well located, but train services are terrible. First train in the morning is around 9am and last train in the evening is around 8:30pm (before pandemic was 10pm).
The bus services are also slow and not very well organised because as the train does, the last bus to return home is around 8:30pm.
And there are only 2 or 3 taxis available in the whole area (in a 20 to 25km radio). You can call them but they take time to pick up unless you book them a day before your trip. Plus the service is very expensive.
The only one who drives in my home (2 people) is my partner and I can’t drive because I got a phobia to drive because I had two terrible accidents when I tried to learn to drive many years ago.
I can use bikes, but the distance to the nearest village or to a biggest town is long, unsafe, hilly and in winter, biking to anywhere could be impossible because the cold, rain and sometime frosty ice (snow? depend of the year snowing tends to be quite rare in this region).
In conclusion, they need to optimise the transport services and communication if they want people to move to rural areas. Specially for family with kids because these rural areas could be very isolated for them, yes it is safe, quiet and less polluted but kids need to socialise to grow mentality healthy.
And about refurbishing and improving your home is also very bureaucratic; need to do many paperwork, pay for many permissions and it take long. But in general people do what they want when they want without asking for stupid permissions. Unless your neighbour accuses you of doing an illegal construction, everything is fine. & Unless you try to build a pyramid or anything that can contaminate the environment, nobody says anything.
About solar panels, they can be useless in this region because is always raining. 😆
Wind power can be good but hydropower is the best, but you can’t build your own dam/power station, can you? 😆
It sounds great, but tropical ocean front life is even better. :D
Declining population levels are nothing but positive for humanity. It will also reduce the cost of housing in this community because house prices will reflect declining demand.
there is no internet , water over there
as long as there is an easy food to buy.. i'm in..
I saw a documentary an of Australia town that invited immigrants from Africa to move to the town. Things changed when the immigrants moved there. School started to open, there was a bigger work force and many other positive things. Immigration is not always bad.
I love Spain 🇪🇸
Im Senegalese 🇸🇳
We have plenty looky looky men as it is
i'd love to live in that rural area if there is any internet connection in there
How to migrate here
This will happen in many countries in the coming years
*in the coming years.
@@prashanthb6521 okay
From the golden age to the end of Reconquista.
Beautiful !
As is the Country and People.
Lots more older people of pensioners used to move there but now I'm told the medical is so high they use to have an agreement with GB and a card I think that might have stooped this country is so packed I wonder why they don't rethink and come to an agreement
Spain is a wonderful place
Only if you have a lot of money to spend.
Catalonia*
@@rao803 is Spain ignorant are iberian people not other ethnic group
@@chinchanchou lol Portugal is in Iberia too and they're not spanish either. Btw Iberian is not an ethnicity
@@rao803 yes is a ethnicity see the adn group recognoice... Portugal was a king independent inn the past if because now a independent countries
Get people from Venezuela you will have no problem!
Count me in .. Moving there ..
How can I move in here?
Well, the real problem is, is that the locals in those villages are not very friendly.
Exquisite, until I heard about the plans to make these just more villages with all the very things we are doing wrong in this world. Why not go with it, and get people who actually want to live safely offgrid. Everyone screams save the planet, but we are not willing to sacrifice the very things that got us "here"
How can I go?
Countries that are not at least replacing those that die off are all going to have this problem unless they encourage immigrants to push up the population. Increasing services in the small towns, such as improving internet, may slow down or stop people from leaving but if more die than are born, the de-population issue doesn't go away.
Spain Golden age of Al Andalus
Jewish Golden age took place in Muslim Spain - Al Andalus
@@kayf_ahmad golden age of civilization was under the stability of the great caliphate before the crusades wiped the progress out.
@@goylanddefree80 golden age Pfff the Golden Age of Civilization was when Christian Spain Reconquered it's lands from the non Believers and went on to conquer parts of the Americas bringing god and Civilization to there.
@@goylanddefree80 not a clue
@GoyLand DeFree caliphate stability? 😃😂😂🤣🤣
Learn history, alAndalus usually lacked stability.
Wouldn’t immigrants fix that
Actually they are inviting northern Europeans, but competition is harsh, Italy and Portugal are also trying because same problem.
What they should do is use those villages for all the refugees in waiting, instead of going to Germany or Denmark.
They could live there, raise chicken until their situation is confirmed. The EU money giving to them would kickstart. Local consumption and demand to fuel the economy locally, and maybe that would bring back some young people.
The hills would become alive with the sound of ... Allahu Akbar.
@@themadfarmer5207 Yes better let them sing in those backwards villages than in Oslo, Berlin or other civilized European countries.
@@onlythetruth4039 Nah. Just think of that awful weed called Japanese Knot weed,. Once a little piece gets established, .... Practically impossible to get rid of. Raynoutra Japonica... That's the one
@@themadfarmer5207 It sure will be alive and soil will rejoice knowing former owners are back.
Thank - you ,
Economic collapse symptoms.