I spent a little over a year living in Spain, and the article is correct: There is essentially no way as a non-EU citizen to get a visa to live in Spain. The

I spent a little over a year living in Spain, and the article is correct: There is essentially no way as a non-EU citizen to get a visa to live in Spain. The good news, though, is that they simply don't care if you go live there anyway. Spain's immigration consciousness is focused entirely to the South. Specifically, they're very interested in stopping the flow of Africans crossing over from Morocco, so woe be to you if you've got dark skin and a lost passport in Algeciras. But if you're a white guy stepping off the ferry in Bilbao? Good luck finding anybody to even look at your passport. I flew in and out a dozen times, crossed back to England by boat a couple times, and even did a trip down to Morocco along the way. The best I could get from Immigrations was a quick flip-open-and-stamp of the passport, with an occasional pained expression from having to find an empty page to stamp. My girlfriend is English and I'm American. For the first 3 years we were together neither one of us could stay in the others' country. Without Spain and their lax standards, it would have been hard to find a place where we could live together.