i cant believe 17% unemployed, its around 7% here in the UK and thats bad enough, what are people doing for money, after your state benifit runs out what can you do.

how long is the spanish reccesion expected to last.

i think they need to seriouly stop, getting things manifactured cheaply abroad and build there own industrys.

what industrys does spain have apart from tourism, contruction and agriculture.

anybody in spain who can let us know how bad it is

4.2 Million Unemployed 5 Million By Late August… Early September
All above are on “Paro”... After that mmmm Not sure..
Expats Leaving Spain Some To most Handing back there house keys to the Banks… as they cannot afford it…
Life is “Slightly Tough” but manageable

Most of the people here have there heads screwed tightly on and riding out la crisis to the end.. by Doing odd jobs fruit picking cleaning pools so on… Or worshipping the sun on the beach.

Financial Analysts think 2010 will be the end of la Crisis..

With all the above yeap no jobs granted but Spain is still a great place to live if you know how to survive…

Houses are cheap on Tv Last Night they were showing the Properties for sale and rent… The amount of Completed & uncompleted Houses and Apartments are amazing figure… Spain built to many homes for the people LIVING IN SPAIN.. but the construction companies went with the boom and built built built!!!

Its said that Repos houses and apartments from banks are selling VERY Very Cheap like near 50% off!

Not all bad for the people that have money in the crisis!

Thanks for for the reply MAC.

i think hey should give the unemployed GUNS after the PARO runs out and say heres your chance! “take for you want” should be the new moto for spain.

Alex

add two whats been say , people have money but just wont spend it , there is billions on saving accounts been helled . No want to spend , just incase you loss you job , ( there the nest egg ) the young just did not save there money and dont have it and now it them how are defaulting on Banks , people where out bidding one outhers , 5 - 8 city brakes ayear , buyying out priced clothes ,
real people got money to burn .... now no one has it

everybody burns their money at feria time, although saying that, struggling, living on a little is a way of life in spain.

its only recently they started to spend spend spend, probly because they saw the tourist do it, and the young started to visit other countrys, many came to london.

where getting jobs is easy and everyone seems to have money to burn.

i hope things get better next month because am moving there.

Alex

Things Will get better… Its a matter of Time… I think late this year or early next year it will settle.

Spain for me is still No 1 I am not leaving… No matter what the problems…

I guess I have been lucky and like I say In most of my posts I blend and adapt to the spanish life the language the food everything… this also helped me have new friends… (Even Though pretty much all my Family are Spanish!!) I learnt more being here than I would in the UK…. Theres pros and cons in everything when you move…

Mac

I bet it was better in francos time

Will this Swine flu could hold people from moving around , that the Nail In The Coffin for tourism . Hotels and airline share drop two day will share rocket in the pharmaceutical UK have 2 case , spain with one france Ireland and outher Eu say that many have more . EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou called on people to think carefully before going to places where people had been infected .
Who say this is a pandemice . In the Mexican capital, schools, bars and public buildings remained closed and many people were staying indoors . Mexican officials said they would keep schools closed until 6 May as they deal with the outbreak . Soldiers have handed out six million masks in and around the capital region . 

Us Board is on hight alram ...

Mexico: 149 suspected deaths from swine flu - 26 confirmed cases
United States: 40 confirmed cases
Canada: 6 confirmed cases
Spain: 1 confirmed case
UK 2 conirfed case
, Israel, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand: suspected cases being tested

Yeap… Not wrong Jurdy…

I just been out for a walk along the coast… And 3 people are wearing surgical masks!!!!! This is in Salou…

3 Hotels are Boarded up “BEST HOTELS” in Cap Salou I couldnt believe it!!!!!

Spoke to my good friend who owns a 4 star hotel “Sun Club” and bookings are WAY WAY WAY down aparently much as 32% he said is trying discounts with free tickets to Port Aventura…

He did say the Irish Tourists are not phased by the “La Crisis” there always in Salou he says!

With this Swine flu going around…. and the death toll going up its a matter of time before they stop travel… They stop when the death toll reaches over a certain amount goes to show we are nothing but a number!

look it like the foot and mouth break out back in 2003/4 in Uk and Ireland ..........

i think there will be many more people with it that havent been diagnosed, you cant stop viruses from spreading, its part of nature.

take look at the bbc website http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8020125.stm
jurdy

i remember the foot and mouth, i saw them burning the cows, in the night it looked like a scene from hell.

they might do that with the pigs.

how do you make a ryanair flight Neveris ?

# Coughing
# Sneezing
and running noise lol

JAJAJAJAJAJAJA Jurdy “Ryan Air Awesome”!!!!!!!!

Well its on the news now the Fiestas In Seville looks like its going to be a poor turn out :-(

See what happens…

This Swine Flu is to wipe out La Crisis and the 4.2 Million people out of work….

Mac…

never flown with ryan air, i hear they are cheap to fly with. do they go from london to malaga