Spain update - FILTHY PIGS!

[@AlexMontgomery-i7s]

Terrible and sad regarding the murder of the young man in Barcelona. Sadly such crimes occur everywhere. I live in Ballarat, population of @ 122000. We have had three women murdered in the first four months of this year! The alleged perpetrator of one refuses to tell police where the body is and her family's grief is amplified. My daughter is a senior solicitor and State prosecutor of the worst crimes imaginable, and the workload is unrelenting! And the additional sad truth is that the vast majority of serious crimes are perpetrated by males in every country.

[@goldgeologist5320]

Nice looking beach. The trash left after the parties is beyond horrible. Total lack of regard for the planet, environment and fellow humans. Education is needed.

[@manuelvilar4496]

Thanks Stuart

[@OGillo2001]

BATMAN

[@davidnice876]

I was in benidorm for it. No fires are allowed on beaches. Was brilliant. People used the bins provided. Next morning, you wouldn't have known what happened the night before .

[@alexpervanoglu7420]

Stopping holiday lets is not going to solve the housing crisis here.

[@chrisbranchett4586]

It's the young who leave their mess here too, they are of the mind someone else will clean it up ! Makes me livid , everytime I go for a walk I take a bag with me , and always fill it , disgusting !

[@reginaschwartz4524]

... and they don't allow dogs on the beaches? My dogs are way more civilized than all these nasty polluters, not pigs, because pigs do not pollute at all.

[@EMS-vl8nn]

Wow!! They should suspend the celebrations from now on ! They don’t deserve anything!

[@welshtoro3256]

I agree but there's no chance of that. It's part of the local calendar and no politician will touch that. Have a look at my comment for some context. Cheers.

[@jacijoyce2685]

en el quinto pino! surely!! I would love to inhabit the farmhouse I learned Spanish in, Renedo de Valdavia. Palencia is surely one of these places

[@welshtoro3256]

Can I just make the point that the disgraceful behaviour of the people on those beaches has very little to do with foreigners or tourists and everything to do with local Spaniards who, as you say Stuart, have no understanding of civic behaviour. I see it all over Andalucia. People just dump their trash wherever they like without the slightest consideration for anyone else. It's just me, me, me. My local reservoir is down to 10% capacity and it's been getting lower and lower every year for a long time. Yet the people in my village have no intention of moderating their water consumption. I've talked to them. "If it runs out they'll send it from the North." The whole place is like a tinderbox but that won't stop families going to the countryside and lighting fires for their barbecues even though it's been banned. They couldn't care less. They dump trash on beaches because someone else will clean it up. I know a lot of great Spaniards that love nature and are very civic minded but, boy, are they up against it in Andalucia. By the way, that second picture is Malaga. You can see it on the uniforms.

[@infinitedaryl2267]

I was about to make this point. It’s interesting isn’t it considering the anti-tourist narrative which blames tourists for everything. I went to San Isidro in Madrid this year and the mess being left behind by mostly young Spanish people was unbelievable. I’m not saying there aren’t drunken pain in the ass louts in places like Magaluf. But the point is it’s interesting what the narrative chooses to focus on and what it chooses to sweep under the carpet. Also, the horrific crime and violence in Barcelona isn’t the work of “guris” and in fact affects them more than locals - we’re their first targets.

[@janetlombardi2314]

Thank you for the interesting update, Stuart. It is shocking to hear about the man who lost his life. Very sad!! What kind of society do we live in.. I can't believe how people trash the beach or anywhere come to think of it. It's awful. Ignorant people, there are many!!

[@youngspiritsinging]

I love that beach in Malaga. How selfish they are not taking care of the beaches!

[@thedahkterizzin8831]

Need to have respect for nature and a civic duty. Aren't young people worried about the environment? Guess they just want to complain about it online but do nothing personally.

[@teddybaker7231]

Shame about the lad losing his life, how sad. Regarding this attack on home owners…if I can’t do air bnb then I’ll leave my place empty before taking responsibility for spains inability to build its own people houses.

[@Dozla78XD]

Leave it empty and dump money on taxes. Many will eventually sell which is a good thing overall. Speculating with housing shouldn't be legal.

[@jonniesantos]

...agree about the trash (rubbish) on the beach*. I've never seen it that bad here, however there are usually clubs or groups (here) that meet on the beach the day after a holiday to pick up what didn't make it to the bin. Also, we can't have fires in the sand; fires have to be kept in purpose made, concrete fire pits (for obvious safety reasons). Thank you for today's video. *there's a music festival in the desert called Coachella (about 3 hrs drive from San Diego) that's very piggy.

[@Recipe-Review]

Unfortunately this has not got any better in the nearly 20 years I've lived here. From throwing their rubbish on the floors in bars and out of car windows. Kids aren't chastised by parents so they grow up thinking it's fine. Someone else's problem. they are employed to pick up after me.

[@kennielsen3896]

Don't think that type of rubbish situation could have happened where I grew up, in Huntington Beach, California. 1st doubt even troublemakers would do this, and if so, the government wouldn't have to intervene, the public would have come out and cleaned up the mess. What lowlifes would do that?

[@welshtoro3256]

Nothing new about the interior of Spain emptying. I've commented about it for years on this channel. The demographic collapse in Spain is extremely serious. Firstly, I've travelled to inland Castile Leon , La Mancha, Extremadura (let's not forget swathes of Andalucia, Galicia, Asturias, Murcia), and I've been to these small towns, virtually empty villages and hamlets. You can drive for miles and miles before you come across a tiny place with a few old blokes outside a bar. Many of these places don't even have a bar, school, cash point, bus stop. I've been to places so empty you wont find 50 people and they're all getting old. There are no jobs or opportunities. Young people cannot exist in these places unless they belong to a farming family and the children don't want to work in farming any more unless it's very profitable. The only future they have is that demand for the city is driving up property costs so more and more are choosing to live in affordable, out of town, places and commute just as Italians have for decades. Traditionally it's not very Spanish but needs must. Work is in cities but property and rental prices are simply unaffordable.

[@yanassi]

The local government simply needs to add bus routes. People can travel to places where their jobs are, afford rent, then in these newly inhabited towns are newly create jobs, stores, banks, restaurants, schools, etc. People simply need a way get around.

[@welshtoro3256]

@@yanassi That wont happen unless there are enough bums on seats. One or two (and sometimes zero) people per stop doesn't make business sense.

[@yanassi]

@@welshtoro3256 interesting point. Not enough people living there to make a bus route practical. And there’s no bus there because there’s not enough people. So, who’s to make the first move? Not the people! People cannot live in a town without jobs. You have to make the route and tell people not to worry, you could get to work in the major city on time. Here’s the towns with these low rents, here’s the bus schedule that will take you to and from, don’t worry. In short time, these new town inhabitants will need basic stores for groceries, shops, restaurants, then more. People complain and no one takes the first step. Continuous thoughtless inactivity, unless it benefits the politicians themselves, then of course they act. Any better ideas?

[@joseantoniodavila2752]

@@welshtoro3256 It's long ago we are not citizens but consumers

[@colinseeney471]

The beaches look disgusting, but sadly, a little bit like a park in the UK after a hot weekend. Usually I find the main public beaches in Spain spotless. The sea in a cove outside Sitges last year though was full of plastic bags. Really gross.

[@worldgonemad1977]

I had no idea this is going on now. It’s very sad. I travelled to Spain 3 times a year before Covid and everywhere was always very clean. Absolutely unbelievable about the murder of that poor boy. In recent times, the only people walking around with machetes are people from other countries who are determined to take what they want instead of working and supporting the countries they go to. Real Estate Agents rent out to the highest bidder and couldn’t give a stuff about local people. It is the same in every country in the world that depends on tourists to boost the economy. The business that service the tourists usually all employ local people so if the tourists are discouraged from coming, what happens to their jobs?

[@georgeb6414]

Sound like Birmingham in the UK

[@mapdrm2]

Time for the local governments to cancel the celebrations

[@frederickmuhlbauer9477]

I live in Turkey and clean up plastic everyday Lots of it

[@londonPB]

All expats forget Spain, you need to go back and save the UK! :)

[@JaquelineRamsay]

Don't think so with all your immigrants

[@sharonhodgkin4118]

No thanks

[@londonPB]

@@sharonhodgkin4118 LOL

[@thelmadavidson1492]

Los alamos is in torremolinos!❤

[@yanassi]

Hi stu and guests. Low rent and accommodations in towns outside the cities, add bus routes! Bus driver jobs created, workers can live somewhere and travel to jobs in the cities. Am i missing something here or is this solution too simple?

[@jamesm.9285]

Was the murderer an immigrant?

[@joseantoniodavila2752]

yes

[@joseantoniodavila2752]

not an expat. First time that word makes a difference to me

[@the-lazy-saint]

lucky you guys are in spain. ive tried saving to get over there but with the current cost of living i am stuck in Australia. if anyone reads this comment all i ask if you ever go past the town of Iraneta, can you plant a tree for me? I am Indigenous to the region of Navara, my soul, and heart are calling for Spain but i am never to be blessed with the opportunity to return to my ancestral homelands nor will i walk them as my indigenous birth right. i come from the wild man and am one of the last of my kind. please take care of the land and rivers, feed the birds and animals.

[@joseantoniodavila2752]

My gosh. I posted a comment before which is not here now. The lazy saint: I'll do the glory job. It's the chance I'll be in Iraneta this week and have trees at home ready to plant. It's quite hot already thus a bad time to plant trees, but there is water in Iraneta and the nights are fresh from the Pyrenees breeze. I'll snap a picture

[@the-lazy-saint]

@@joseantoniodavila2752 thanks Jose. means a lot. i really appreciate you going out of your way if i can ever help in any way feel free to reach out please. you are living my dream thank you!

[@joseantoniodavila2752]

There is an odd book that might be of your liking: "IRAÑETA: Casas, vecinos y habitantes". It's in amazon. It tells the history of all the houses and all the families since the 14th century

[@the-lazy-saint]

@@joseantoniodavila2752 wow i will definitely talk to my father about getting that book. all my abuela told us of her father was he was dumb man but a very strong man. he was a master of the axe and was referred to as a wild man. i love learning thank you so much honestly i thought i could never learn about Iraneta

[@bravetraveler1985]

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