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Dividing the new land would be crazy. Maybe even inner countries (Germany, ...) would want a piece. And there is also this theory that the great Bible flood wa
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Dividing the new land would be crazy. Maybe even inner countries (Germany, ...) would want a piece.
And there is also this theory that the great Bible flood was the Mediterranean Sea spilling into the Black Sea. If the Gibraltar dam fails we would see the mother of all floods from the Atlantic rushing in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
- allendoerfer 10y ago> inner countries (Germany, ...) Inner country in what sense? Germany has two coasts. A claim would still be reasonable, as Mallorca is Germany's 17th state. An epic battle would arise early in the morning, as usual started by the Germans claiming the land by putting towels on it, but soon they would have to fight off Brits in their sunburned bright red warpaint.
- flukus 10y ago> A claim would still be reasonable, as Mallorca is Germany's 17th state For those wondering what the hell this is about, apparently it's a running joke about the number of German tourists there.
- euyyn 10y agoAnd not only tourists. There are so many Germans than in a town they elected a German major.
- allendoerfer 10y agoEconomically Spain is benefiting in two ways from the freedom of movement of the EU: Old people from Germany moving to Spain, spending, young people from Spain moving to Germany, earning. Socially this might not be desired and environmentally – at least on Mallorca – it is a disaster.
- pipio21 10y agoHow is young people moving to Germany contributing to Spain? Earning? They spend most of their money where they live. In the past engineers used to create wealth in Spain, creating 30 to 40% of the Gross product in Industry in Spain. Now it is 10%. I am engineer and I have a company in central Europe, I know. Educated people moving to Germany to create wealth there is a disaster for Spain. You are payed in salary 10 because you contribute at least 20 or 30 to the country you work in. Training an engineer cost Spain 40 to 50.000 euros in public education. Them moving to USA or Germany is an enormous transfer of wealth.
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- guard-of-terra 10y agoI wonder why I don't know any IT consulting giants in Italy or Spain. I mean, climate is awesome and prices are lower than in Switzerland or UK where many of those are located, and quality of life is much better than in Poland or Ukraine where more of them are located. Where's your IT consulting? Maybe you ought to remove a few roadblocks for them? I'll be the first one to move to Italy and pay taxes there if provided with workplace and visa.
- allendoerfer 10y agoYou cannot compare Ukrainian prices to Italian. Italy's GDP per capita is almost 5 times the Ukrainian and the German is not even 1.5 times the Italian. Add in a language barrier and you have your answer. Also northern Italy is where all the industry sits and its productivity is comparable to north-western Europe, the south is dragging Italy down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
- guard-of-terra 10y agoThere's no reason why the language barrier will be there in Italy but not in Ukraine. Will definitely not affect offshore devs coming on your turf (like with Poland, which imports a lot of Ukrainian and Russian IT workforce). If London and Zurich can afford IT consultancies, why not Italy? 'cause I've not heard of those. WRT "south dragging Italy down", I actually don't think this is true. I think it's more like an excuse.
- lostlogin 10y agoMajor? Or mayor?
- euyyn 10y agoAh, sorry: mayor. Thanks.
- posterboy 10y ago> started by the Germans claiming the land by putting towels on it Bwahaha
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