“I noticed that the cheaper homes for rent, you would find them on the outskirts of the big city in remote areas,” she says.
“You can’t go and eat because they close at four, and then they don’t open again until eight, nine o’clock at night,” she adds.
“Out in the country. Some houses and apartments can be in a town that is not that good. It may not have that many services. So it just depends.
“The other thing that really bothered me about them over there (was) their way of living and their way of doing things,” she says.
While Cristina didn’t necessarily have strong opinions about Spanish food before moving there, she grew to dislike it, finding it to be largely “fried, greasy and unhealthy.”
“After a while, I got really tired and grossed out with the Spaniard food,” she says, noting that there’s a little “more variety” in bigger cities such as Madrid and Barcelona.
She found herself aching for the convenience she was used to back in Miami, as well as her friends and family.
“The convenience of everything being open,” she says. “Going to the supermarket or going to a regular pharmacy and finding everything that you need.”
“And I’m not going to tell you that the United States is the perfect country. It’s not. But we have more things going for us here than over there.
“I would have stayed over there if they had a different way of living.”
She moved to Cantabria and was then surprised that Cantabria is cold and dark in the winter? Had she ever visited? She didn’t like how all the restaurants are closed for siesta?
I’ve been to Cantabria once in the spring and both of those things were immediately obvious to me.
This woman must have done the least amount of research ever.
she was nefariously mislead by Big Spain it appears.
Restaurants don’t close for siesta purposes though, they close because they employ people “8h” a day and so they open for like 4h at midday and 4h at supper. But yeah, going to oceanic climate region of Spain and complaining about oceanic climate is peak yankeeism.
No all of spain is like Cancun because they speak mexican in spain!
lol floridian cuban gusano worried about squatters in spain should they buy a second home this is too good it almost feels like a bit.
worried about squatters
There’s been copious amounts of anti-squatter propaganda in Spanish media for the past 5 years, to the point of the main house-alarm company rising its revenue by like 400% (securitas direct, look it up). It’s just one more case of the right wing making up shit to hate on poor people and minorities (primarily Roma people and north-african immigrants).
It’s especially disgusting because journalists from the private TV stations will interview “random neighbours” who consistently turn out to be members of the far-right party Vox, blatant manipulation by agreeing to interviews with fascists and passing them as street interviews. When the national TV station interviews neighbours, funnily enough they’re mostly in favour of squatters, because the “movimiento Okupa” (squatter culture) in Spain is super progressive and they end up organising cool stuff like free concerts, mutual aid, and all sorts of cultural events.
This almost reads like propaganda intended to dissuade people from leaving the US.
it is i think . Its to diminsh the bourgouise Braindrain…
Spain like Expat , Immigrant Tutorial Area imo…
EDIT: on a second thought , scrathc the brain in the drain…
Spanish food before moving there, she grew to dislike it, finding it to be largely “fried, greasy and unhealthy.”
Someone from
is finding another country’s food to be “fried, greasy and unhealthy”?! As opposed to USA food, which is also fried, greasy and unhealthy…Restaurant food in Spain can be like that depending on the area. A lot of fried stuff if you go have tapas or raciones. Then again, she’s purportedly in northern Spain, which isn’t known for that (unlike for example southern coast, full of fried fish), it’s just that she’s probably not ordering the healthier dishes like what we call “guisos de cuchara” (stews meant to be eaten like a spoon). Someone give this woman a plate of lentil stew please
I love fried greasy food. Really great after a night at the bar
You’d love fried fish in Cádiz then (dietary restrictions permitting). Pescaíto frito! Usually, on the Spanish coastal towns, there are such buildings called “lonjas”, where everyday in the early morning the freshly caught fish is auctioned, normally to restaurants and fish stores. Decent restaurants get super fresh fish that’s just amazing that way, and Cádiz is a good place because it has Atlantic waters and Mediterranean climate.
How can an American complain about food being fried, greasy, and unhealthy?
Treatlerism is terminal
