I read this article yesterday and was just curious if ordinary Spaniards are reaping the rewards of a booming economy or if the story on the ground is a lot different

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  2. My only thought is never ever vote for the right. 

  3. I am sure this is not a normal situation. A crisis is coming soon.

  4. In my case I’m making way more money compared to 2019 because there’s more work to do, and since I’m a business owner I profit off of that, I had 3 workers in 2019, now I have 8, but that’s not what happens to most people, they make around the same or a little bit more (maybe 10-15%, but housing/renting is like 30-50% more expensive, food is about 30% more expensive, and everything else 10-20% more expensive. So they’re in a worse position than in 2019

  5. Maybe people working in tourism yes, we had a record last year of visiting tourists.
    In my company, located in Madrid, to put an example, my colleagues with salaries between 35k-40k struggle to pay the rent and go on vacation 1 week per year. Salaries have been increased but much less than the cost of life. Also I think that the numbers are not as good as the socialist government says

  6. Not even close, we’d need very profound reforms for us to have positive prospects for the future, we are pretty behind economically from the better part of europe, and we’d been falling behind even more for a lot of time now. If there aren’t changes pro open market and liberalization of the economy we are going nowhere. Hope a spanish milei pops up soon and then we could talk about it.

  7. People can’t pay rent, young families can’t afford to have kids, nor to have the same purchasing levels their parents had 30 years ago to buy a house, the only solution for many professionals is to leave the country to get competitive salaries. But the economy is booming…

  8. On the macroeconomics level, Spain is doing great.

    Now, how did we achieve all this growth? By receiving a massive influx of immigrants, most which do not pay a huge amount in taxes but do end up working low paid wage jobs in the service industry, driving up growth.

    All this is doesn’t necessarily translate to a quality of life increase if housing/energy / food prices are thru the roof and qualified Spanish graduates are leaving Spain in droves, leaving only the aforementioned immigrants to actually generate any money.

  9. I’m happy the economy is booming even though some people are struggling with the cost of living. Better this than high unemployment rates and foreclosures.
    However, at the same time I am a bit concerned because every time the Spanish economy booms, there is a global crisis within 2/3 years

  10. My partner just got a part time job. Training time is full time. She earned 90€ for two days of full time working with one hour of lunch that’s 8 hours work/day.
    45/8=5,625 €/h. She has a masters degree.

    Maybe if you’re in tech it’s a different story.

  11. Tourism is up, cost of living is way up and real estate is not affordable. So the economy is good for corporations but not for the average person.

  13. It would be in other circumstances, but the increase of prices, mostly in rents and purchasing houses, is taking it down.

    No, we are not enjoying it because if that. You can have better job but if you pay double for your house…

  14. Ordinary Spaniards are fucked up. Money from tourism only benefits to business owners close to tourism, but tourism is fucking up cities and making everything more expensive, affecting everyone.

    FWIW, I’m a software engineer who is working on a non-related industry and all I’ve seen these last years have been prices rising but not salaries. So no, on the “macro” level we may be fine, but on the “micro” level we are going down.

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