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One thing that I do have to say about Spain: Pre-Corona there was literally a bank branch at every street corner. It was a bit too much. I get that old people h
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
One thing that I do have to say about Spain: Pre-Corona there was literally a bank branch at every street corner. It was a bit too much. I get that old people have mobility issues, but where I live there were 3 branches within 500m of my house. And that was just for my bank, I had at least one branch from the other main ones within the same distance as well. I have never seen this density in other EU countries (I've lived in several and visited most) even before digitisation, except probably Romania.
Now what they've done is shuttered a lot of actual branches but left the ATMs. The density of bank branches now is comparable to the density of post offices (in my "barrio" there is only one post office and now only one branch of my brank). It's not like they have to walk 20km now especially in the city.
However I do really think old people should be able to keep doing transactions as they were. They should not be forced to go online.