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I really like what Spain is doing recently. If it weren't for climate change, I'd consider moving there.
by _ink_ 3mo ago
I really like what Spain is doing recently. If it weren't for climate change, I'd consider moving there.
- Xenoamorphous 3mo agoThe current government has little chance to get re-elected, and the next one will revert most of these decisions.
- ncruces 3mo agoIt could be worse can only take a government so far. Eventually, just preaching to the choir catches up with you.
- littlecranky67 3mo agoCanary Islands are part of Spain and probably unaffected from climate change - we have 19-22°C all year round. If it raises to 25° still pretty livable.
- b40d-48b2-979e 3mo agoand probably unaffected from climate change No place is unaffected.
- pedrogpimenta 3mo agoNo, but the island's climate will still be chill.
- stronglikedan 3mo agoMost places will be unaffected. It'll only affect places where humans are, and we're not even close to filling up the planet
- hrldcpr 3mo ago> It'll only affect places where humans are What?
- mylies43 3mo agoI think he meant to say the "planet" where humans are
- onemoresoop 3mo agoClimate change affects places where more people live in the sense that more suffer from it, resources get depleeted fast but the wild temperature fluctuations won’t spare much of the planet in various ways from wet bulb effects, costal erosion, air major currents changing, glaciers melting and so on.
- Daishiman 3mo agoIslands are extremely vulnerable to climate change all over, as they are completely dependent in near-term precipitation for all their water (no rivers, no aquifers).
- littlecranky67 3mo agoNo rivers and no water is reality here for quite a while already. The islands rely a lot on desalination, and there is a big EU-funded project going on to create a desalination plant that not only is used to supply tap water, but the water basin of a new hydroelectric plant [0]. Desalination pretty much solves water issues, IF you have the energy (ideally renewable). [0]: https://renewablesnow.com/news/construction-starts-on-200-mw3-5-gwh-pumped-storage-hydro-in-spain-773786/ https://renewablesnow.com/news/construction-starts-on-200-mw...
- Daishiman 3mo agoDesalination solves water issues for tap water. Islands may be short on surface area. I would also never use the word "solve", as this is just for human usage. The ecosystems themselves are irreversibly destroyed.
- hecrogon 3mo agoIt isn't that simple, Canary Islands already counts with 2.2 million + tourists people and the fresh water is a highly risk resource even when desalinization plants are widespread, the groundwater aquifers are severely compromised. The mild weather heavily depends on the trade winds. But models predict that due to fact of being so close to Africa heat waves are prone to be more and more frequent compromising the water resources.
- Stevvo 3mo agoOk but most of the populated areas of the Canary Islands are a tourist shithole, not somewhere you would want to live.
- littlecranky67 3mo agoThe two capitals (Santa Cruz and Las Palmas) are pretty good spot to live in. Tourism focuses on the south on both islands. Las Palmas has a beach with a bit touristic activity, but its not drinking tourism like Mallorca or Benidorm. Combined with nice weather all year round overall a greaet place to live. Very walkable cities, you can do without a car. Due to nice weather, you can always go by bike or scooter. Taxis are cheap. Thanks to the tourists, cheap flights all year round, every day, to all major european cities. But yeah, if you come with kids, factor in private schools. The public system here is broken. As for internet, I pay less than 10€/month for 500Mbit fibre - I couldn't even get that in Germany and if could it would be north of 80€.
- wolvoleo 3mo agoThere's very little decent work though. If you live there you're either fully remote which is rare these days, or you work in the tourist industry.
- littlecranky67 3mo agoYes, you must bring your remote job unless you want to work for less-than minimum wage in a restaurant.
- pvaldes 3mo ago> If you live there you're either fully remote, or you work in the tourist industry. Or you are a doctor, a teacher, an architect or a bananas farmer. Some of the richest families in the islands just export/import commodities since three generations.
- wolvoleo 3mo ago
- pvaldes 3mo agoCanary Islands will be affected (severely) for any change on the sea currents. Because the marine trophic chains will change. A warmer ocean means much bigger storms over the islands. This has both positive and negative aspects.
- faust201 3mo agoAre you sure? It is sometimes close to 30°C in summer in Fue. BTW, did you forget sealevel rises, dust from Sahara, what is you have many days of > 40km/h winds. all those are climate change.
- Al-Khwarizmi 3mo agoMuch of Spain is indeed getting very unpleasant in the summer with climate change, but in the north there are still regions that are quite fine at the moment. Where I am, we recently beat the all time temperature record with 35 degrees, but that was a single day. Most days these weeks it isn't going over 25, and I don't think we hit 30 in June except for that single day and maybe one other day. The problem is that the right is poised to win the next election and will probably undo all the policies you like. They're pretty much against everything that has been done in the last 7 years. I still have some hopes that Sanchez might clinch another term because he's a political survivor, but prospects are not great.
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- markdown 3mo agoYou're far better off having a million new young workers than having a million undocumented young people hidden in the shadow economy. They were already there. Flicking a switch and turning them into participants in the economy and society at large is a positive move.
- zurdolies 3mo agothey were already there? they came in the last 3 years. and who let them in? and what is being done to prevent another illegal million from arriving
- csomar 3mo agoPlease only worry about the USA. That's enough insanity the world can handle at a time.
- markdown 3mo agoIf talking about the US, then... > they came in the last 3 years So you admit they're already here. > and who let them in? This isn't a political rally so that's not relevant to this discussion. > what is being done to prevent another illegal million from arriving Since we're talking about existing undocumented humans, that's not relevant to this discussion.
- breppp 3mo ago[flagged]
- pier25 3mo agoIn the CPI Spain is not that far off from countries like France, Italy or the US and better than the global average. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025 https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025 I'm currently living in Mexico and here corruption is a much more serious issue.
- breppp 3mo agoI am talking about the current government corruption cases, I assume Mexico is worse, but Spain isn't great for Europe either
- fcatalan 3mo agoThe made up cases are so many that they deflect each other and the few real ones. The real scandal is the state of our judicial power.
- breppp 3mo agoThis is pretty common in any country going through a populist phase, they go against the judicial, as is happening in the US
- trosdesoca 3mo agowhat are you even talking about.. embarrassment of a child
- breppp 3mo agoI'll simplify it for you, populists from left and right (Trump and Sanchez) main trick is blaming the elites for preventing the will of the people. This usually puts them in conflict with the judiciary, that and the fact populist government are usually incredibly corrupt (also due to contempt of existing standards)
- CalRobert 3mo agoGalicia is supposed to be nice
- pvaldes 3mo agoWill face the same oceanographic problem that Canary Islands. Galicia is richer than they should be, thanks to the Artic. And also thanks to Ethiopy.
- stronglikedan 3mo agoI imagine there will be a lot of AC retrofitting across Europe in the coming years. Investment opportunity?
- munk-a 3mo agoVentless temperature control units are extremely popular there so it's probably not an unwise investment but you're not really ahead of the curve. The construction of most European buildings[1] lends itself poorly to anything that requires knocking a hole in a wall but the systems that can exhaust heat through water lines are usually quite reasonable to set up. 1. Though this is significantly less prevalent in Spain due to a lot of reconstruction happening after the civil war - that isn't to say buildings there are perfect, they just have different problems than the classic German 30cm thick stone wall.
- pvaldes 3mo agoThe price of AC gases had skyrocketed by EU laws, and more than half of the bill are just taxes. Some gases, like ammonia are easy to manufacture, other are being banned by environmental concerns, and other depend on international trade nets that can be shocked at any time if somebody trumped that morning. Investing in AC should depend heavily on the kind of refrigerant used in your product.
- broken-kebab 3mo agoAnd then you'll have to choose another country after the next elections. Or even before, cause liking politicians from afar somehow much easier than when living in the same country.
- saguntum 3mo agoI'm moving there. Climate change is going to affect everywhere, and yes, a lot of Spain will experience desertification over the course of my lifetime. I am moving from Texas to Spain, though, so I am used to heat from a pure personal comfort perspective. One interesting point is that Spain is well-situated in terms of its energy mix: it's a leader of renewables in Europe. It was also able to negotiate a carve-out from collective energy pricing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_exception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_exception), so Iberian energy markets are generally cheaper than broader European markets. This will have downstream economic effects for the country and makes it easier to afford using AC. I will always install AC wherever I live. There are far too many avoidable heat deaths in Europe in particular given their level of economic development. I don't blame them at all given the need is relatively new, but it's really a sad phenomenon. If you are a true climate doomer (realist?), also, Spain is going to fare as well as one can in Europe should the AMOC collapse. It's not the best place to be globally in a scenario like that, though, to say the least. For me, with everything going on in terms of world events, life choices are basically just placing bets about the future. There is no truly safe or best choice in a lot of scenarios.
- tngranados 3mo agoThe no AC in Europe thingy is mostly central and north Europe, where, in fairness, it didn't use to get very hot but now have heat waves fairly often. Spain, Portugal, Italy and other southern European countries have very wide spread AC usage.
- sillyfluke 3mo ago>southern European countries They also have colder beers than Germany probably for the same reason. Nothing beats the culture acclimation of wincing while sipping lukewarm beer under the July sun in 100+ degrees Berlin.
- fakedang 3mo agoAnd horchatas!