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Expatica Spain's latest blogger left her city three years ago and has since been living in a less than “real life’’, or so say her friends.Spain is a sunny country. Most months average less than two inches of rainfall, some less than one. It ain't Seattle.
This delightful meteorological fact has created a widely believed myth perpetuated by my umbrella-toting friends at home: I must be on holiday. All the time.
I've spent three years here in Madrid; long enough to establish that I'm not on perpetual holiday, one would think. I've got a healthcare card, I can vote in the mayoral elections. I work in an office five days a week.
Granted, the café con leche breaks are liberal and it isn't New York's nine-to-five, but it is a full workday. I make phone calls, I send emails, and I frequently deal with Ricky Gervais-style office tedium.
But, by living and working in a popular vacation destination, everyone assumes that I get to enjoy the museums, the plazas, the nearby beaches, seven days a week. Because I have chosen to live in a place where people often jet for a weekend of fun and sunshine-filled debauchery, I am constantly told how oh-so-lucky I am not to have to be a part of the maddening daily grind.
A friend of mind recently called and vented about her recent work headaches - run-of-the-mill moanings about working in customer service that anyone who's dealt with the public has experienced and can empathise with.
I began to commiserate, telling her about the stressful changes brought about by a new boss. She politely listened for approximately 90 seconds before interrupting, "Yes, but at least you live in Spaaaain."
Does geographical location really make me incapable of experiencing life's daily stresses? Clearly, this friend has never waited in line to renew her NIE.
About the most balanced article I´ve read as one who has also made Spain "home". Well done, hits the proverbial nail on the head! We too have experienced the same reactions from friends and family which made reading the blog almost spooky!
What a boring, repetitive, misleading, mediocre rant....what nearby beaches in Madrid? cheap to rent? - Madrid is one of the most expensive places per sq meter in the world.....the inclusion of the landlords origins ???....I suspect the writer has fallen pray to that all too typical Madrileno racisism towards los Andalu's. ...
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