“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.”
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.