I agree with most of these, with some caveats. > Spain is one of those countries where civil servant is a dream job Not any longer, at least not in my circles

I agree with most of these, with some caveats. > Spain is one of those countries where civil servant is a dream job Not any longer, at least not in my circles. Years of neglect by the goverment and bad publicity by all actors have made civil servant's jobs both scarce and not that attractive. If there is any other alternative it's prefered over this. > 'Low level corruption' [...] doing some underhanded businesses Unfortunately Spannish economy depends on this. People have a meager salary, self employed people cannot demand the correct price for their services (most of the time) because people cannot pay it, so they don't have enough to pay taxes, that means less money for everyone in a vicious circle. So we don't have enough jobs for everyone, and the taxes self employed people suffer impose most of them a decision: evade some or close shop. Being that the second option is non-sustainable (not enough jobs, remember?) they tend to do the first. The rest are quite spot on and I agree with them.