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A similar phenomena happened in the US, as all the rust belt was abandoned for places with better weather, unions and better conditions...Plus Spain in Energy Independent from Russians, leader in alternate energy and with the language with more speakers in the world.
That's quite an exaggeration to say "all the rust belt was abandoned".
Every single Rust Belt state has grown in population over the past few decades. Even states like Michigan and Ohio are at peak population. They may be growing slower than states like Florida and Texas, but they are still growing, at roughly the same pace as most Western European countries.
Maybe. In Germany many less people their own homes than in the UK.
I am on about the total area of land of the country, not home ownership. A home sits on a small parcel of land. In the UK only 7.7% of the land is settled including gardens and open spaces. Only 1.5% of the land has masonry on it. The country is empty. 0.66% of the population own 70% of the land. Spain has a large land area and a smaller population. Their overall land ownership is similar to the UK, if not worse.
Most of Spain is empty, there are large holdings of idle and wild land, hunting areas, large areas that are deserted.
For example, Castile and Leon is a community the size of UK with less than 2 million inhabitants.
Most of the population is concentrated along the coast, Madrid and a few places more.
Not really, very large landowners were very important 60 years ago, not now. Most of big fortunes are associated with industry, banking, retailing. I believe tha richest man is the owner of Zara, then comes bankers, industrialists, etc.
Less than 2 percent of the population works in agriculture.
That's quite an exaggeration to say "all the rust belt was abandoned".
Every single Rust Belt state has grown in population over the past few decades. Even states like Michigan and Ohio are at peak population. They may be growing slower than states like Florida and Texas, but they are still growing, at roughly the same pace as most Western European countries.
But industry and technology migrated south. I'm referring to states that were very poor like NC which are now poles of attraction.
Don't be too quick to assume things, I actually live in Spain so I know very well the subject I'm talking about.
The reason I started this thread is because In my 12 months living in this country I still haven't figured out what makes it appear so wealthy. I look around my social circle and all of my friends despite being very qualified and educated have basic jobs and medium to low salaries without any hope of improvement, and that seems to be the norm in Spain nowadays.
However public services and infrastructure are definetely first-world despite all the austerity measures taken in the last years so something must be wrong.
Wikipedia?
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