That was a nice article. Somehow I expected worse.

tl;dr: Of course there are challenges, but it’s a good thing.

But somehow I’m still sad. Fascism seems to be on the rise everywhere, the visceral rage of xenophobia is an accepted reaction these days.

This one alone should shut them all up:

One is Spain’s fertility rate of 1.1 births per woman, the lowest in the EU after Malta and little more than half the rate of 2.1 needed to maintain demographic stability.

But will it? No.

Oh and there’s one thing that’s been a problem long before 2018: tourists* buying up appartments & houses, pushing prices.

* refered to as US immigrants in the article, but EU just as much.

Spain’s unemployment rate remained the second highest in the EU at 10.3 per cent in March, yet Huarte’s businesses have struggled to find people to drive rubbish trucks or bulldozers at landfill sites. “It’s a problem, and the only way to overcome it is with immigrants,” he says.

We are reinventing indentured servitude.