Why 70% of Spain is Empty 

Absolutely!! I visited the Cantabria region and the shear beauty of these places were breath-taking and I gave serious thought of relocating there. Sparsely populated is a welcomed reprieve from the oppressive masses of some of the U.S. Were it not for social reasons, I'd have already been there.

Lucky you I live in a city but I love green areas, mountains, trees all the beauty is amazing.

The densely packed city looked awful - I will alway live in a rural area.

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En la meseta del hambre?

Never knew

Sounds nice.

Well said

Love your response! So, for the sake of the nature, animals, it is better that it stays the way it is. It is a hidden gem so to say, keep the high frequenties there and keep the cars, roads, industrie and (more) people out.

I think you are perfectly correct. These empty areas are treasures of Spain.

I hope it doesn't get spoiled by transitting drug dealers from the South coast, a significant problem

@@mikesmith8313 they are ruining the world.

It's "Extremadura"

Well, at least someone's happy... I live just outside a big town in Spain (only 3km away) and have very unreliable power supply (I had to buy UPS for nearly all my electrical devices), we have no running water (we have to rely on a well from which water is not l potable), and the only internet connection I can get is via radio signal and antenna with speeds worse than a dial up modem from the 90s.... It's only been 2 years and I can't stand it any longer. Infrastructure outside towns is virtually non-existant. It feels like I live in a 3d world country 100 years ago....

As a Spanish, I agree with this.

@@rstanev951 - Internet: Get Starlink; Power, add Solar & Energy Storage/ Inverters! Water: that's the Tough one! Maybe a "New Well?"

@@robertweekley5926 Hello Robert, I haven't heard of Starlink before but now that you suggested it I checked it out and it does sound rather good. I'll have to investigate a little more. Thanks for that!

@@rstanev951 Are you in a legal habitable and buildabke area? A lot of people buy cheap big houses outside town and have this problem, water and power supply is not covered by regulations if the area is non-buildeable

@Are You Kidding Me You're right. It was late.

Sounds AMAZING! Love to do that, sadly my legs aren't as strong as they used to be.

@@lemastre Late or not, your use of the English language was impeccable and your choice of the word 'isolation', in that context, was perfect. It sounds like a fabulous way to spend time with your friends. There are desolate places here too.

Belgium is pretty densely packed

@@2DRonaldo Too much kneeling before Zod?

Agree 🙂

I live next to NYC. And I'd love to be where you are. Enjoy, hermano. 💕🌿

Sounds pretty darned nice actually.

Tierra de conquistadores. Dejaron su tierra y fueron al nuevo mundo a fundar los actuales países. Saludos desde el sur de Chile

Extremadura es la mas bella y desconocida región española, nuestros muy corruptos y mediocres politicos ni tan siquiera se han tomado la molestia de conectarla decentemente al resto de España, no ya con trenes de alta velocidad que recorren toda la geografia española menos Extremadura, ni tan siquiera tiene una conexión medio decente de lineas ferreas convencionales, han aislado intencionadamente a Extremadura del resto de España, casi mejor, mas tranquilos viven los extremeños, gente amable, agradable y extremadamente hospitalaria donde las haya.

Dam I need to go there.😊

And mostly boring, without opportunities for young people , etc. Don't idealize Spain

Spain's landscape is ugly, barren and desolate. Small towns look like mousetraps. Almost no trees. Palpable drowsiness in the people's mood. Big nope for me.

@@fabricliver dude, Spain has many different landscapes and biomes. Did you go to Galicia or Asturias? Is green as Scotland 😂 what you are referring to is the meseta, which is literally like Arizona, but not all Spain is like that...

@@AMDA_My family is part Spanish and I know that the people in Spain have a lot of problems with human rights and welfare. Even animal welfare there isn't ideal. Just one of the things I like about Spain, is all of the natural habitats left untouched.

yes this is a problem in the US Midwest/central states, so they try to lure businesses and factories to those areas, it's the usual bad cycle... no economic opportunities/investment, so people leave for cities, then rural areas fall behind over time, they say in the next 15 - 20 years, most people will be living in urban metro areas, the politicians always ignore and don't address the root problem

Not only in Barcelona and Madrid. You can find said jobs in Valencia, Seville or Bilbao

Pero que dices colgado, conoces muy poco tu país

Ah, a trve wastelander comrade, indeed. Greetings from the Spanish barren lands fella

Ever since I traversed your beautifull country as a European, nothing here sounds "far" or "long" anymore compared to the days I drove in AUS without seeing a basic village ;'D

That’s more hours than it takes to drive to full length of the UK 😂 and that covers two countries England and Scotland lol

45 minutes drive is to the closest city in South Africa, average distance is 5 hours drive . Some city are 15 hours drives

And USA is so big, an hour drive just gets me from the north side of the city to the south side. Hell, it takes 16 hours to drive through my state

I agree, but you see, this is the language that started capitalism. It's how the English settlers/colonizers referred to Ireland when they invaded it and colonized it. It's the "best" justification for invading and colonizing countries. Same goes for Africa for instance. And it's the same concept behind terminology such as "real estate developer" or "international development" ;)

yeh but the government forgetting those places is the real hard part.

@@bahamabartokmajestikassbis5240 Split Europe into it's individual countries, then come back with an answer. Many hundreds, if not thousands of years ago, England was a forest. It was only farming which destroyed the forests. One of the biggest areas was 'Sherwood Forest', which if around now, would engulf Derby and Nottingham and many small towns & villages north of the first two, and more than likely south too. The forested areas in England have been decimated. The best forests are in Scotland. Many people forget, the forests (trees) are the lungs of planet Earth, which we need but 'development' is destroying.

@@bahamabartokmajestikassbis5240 You miss my point, forget it.

Nothing to compare with America. The empty space in Spain isn’t a natural process or a wonder, it’s the consequence of the disastrous territorial policies of a wrong-headed developmental model. Nobody is able to live there a long time without European subventions or without peoples in age to work, everything is missing. The elderly population in Spain and the low birth rate aren’t a secret for nobody, all these empties countries without a population are expected to disappear. And it’s not only a Spanish phenomenon, in a near future older persons are expected to account for 35 per cent of the population in Europe, 28 per cent in Northern America, 25 per cent in Latin America. The residential care homes for the elderly in Europe and Spain are actually the best investments.

Same. This reminded me of 6 years living in Spain. I wish I could go back again to re-live my memories.

Shhhh. Don't tell too many about Spain. We don't want to be overrun when they find out it's the best place in the world to live.

Hilaria?

It is a very varied country, they have different climates and landscapes not far away and that is fun. People are relaxed and close, although it seems to foreigners that we are angry because we speak louder than in other places. Thank you for your very positive comment

@@Fran-xu9ic haha it is true that you guys tend to talk a bit louder than some other countries and fast too but I never found it to be an issue, at least where I traveled to, people were always really nice :)

damn I am in Spain and want to move back to the UK! I miss the nature pathways around the country and the trains that connect every place. The video doesn't talk that if you live in the empty part, you'll not have decent electricty, water, even public transport. If you get out of cities, youll need a car, as trains or buses are barely unreliable. I guess we want what we don't have!!

@@clare9008 then why brits love costa del sol if it was that bad?

Same 😊

Don’t Speak English only that’s my advice I hate how English people come to our country and start to speak their language we speak Spanish very dearly learn it before u live here

​@@aymanla471because the Costa del Sol is the most intensely overdeveloped region of Spain. Brits don't go to the Costa del Sol for pristine nature or unspoilt landscapes, they go to get some sun and enjoy the cheap cost of living (read: they can get shitfaced drunk for half the price).

We have a similar situation here in Greece bro. I was studying in Sparta a few years ago and whenever i was on my way back home in Athens i was coming across many little villages completely abandoned especially while still in Laconia. So sad...

When Madrid became its own autonomous community it spelled the end of the Castillas. The population growth of Madrid has come at the expense of the regions around it.

Im from madrid and now i live in thr uk ughhhh

saludos hispanohablantes

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As a recent visitor I preferred the empty interior of Spain to the crowded coasts

Make sure you get high speed internet as well as some universities etc. that prepare people for home office jobs. No need for young people to leave if they do their high paying job from home.

Probably better than 98% of some countries in Southeast Asia.

As you're commenting on this, I take it your part of the empty area at least has fast enough internet to watch online videos? Are others the same?

Its comical how the Government, who claims to environmentalist, essentially forces people into cities, only adding to pollution. The only way to fix the problem is to spread out, and return to nature. No town should have more than 100k population.

I mean that is good for you that you don’t have to care about terrible infrastructure but most people today want access to things like higher/improved education and modernized medical care that isn’t an hours drive away.

so you import stuffs? would you mind if I contact you?

There are no cities of importance in Ohio, at one point Cleveland was one but no longer

Ah look a comment liar

@@poopshoes7579 Still cities... of course Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati are no New York or Chicago

New Mexico (or Nuevo Mexico) is New Spain 😂😂 Cheers and Love from Spain to the USA🤝😊

@@joaquincimas1707 how do you know English if you're from Spain?

Well, we are where the history comes from after all.

@@sierra5713 How does anyone know a language?

As somebody who lives in Spain, I don’t appreciate the geography enough, yeah it’s hot, yeah sometimes it’s pretty barren, but it magnificent

I’m from zaragoza. Love u ❤️💪🏼🔥

Did you visit the grave of Concepcion Zarzal?

agreed!! im from zaragoza and i love living there.

That was either a misunderstanding or a blatant lie (or a mixture of both) True, if you ask for the next “city” (“ciudad”) there is going to be hundreds of kilometers between Zaragoza and the next one. That’s because of how cities are catalogued in Spain (even some capitals are not considered cities). But you made it seem like there was hundreds of kilometers of nothing until the next populated area, and that was a lie. There are multiple villages very close to Zaragoza, most of them with thousands of people living there. I’m guessing you were jogging in “el parque grande”, about 6km away you have “Cuarte de Huerva” which has a poputation over 10000 (in the census, but there is probably even more people living there) That’s more than doable.

porque hablan ingles estos npc

Avergoncémonos de nuestros políticos y gobernantes, no de nuestro país.

As an American, I think it's interesting how this low population density is seen as unusual in Europe but not so much so in a lot of the US. What are some of the reasons you think Spain is the best country to live in btw?

I don't know what the problems with having your population in the place where there will actually make money.

@@zachfreeman2502 food, people, weather, economy, party, landscape, sport, transport, culture and diversity

@Abdulaziz Mohammed and Morocco is ancient Maurentania, belonging to Rome smh 🤦‍♂️

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@@sachingeorge7681 what

Spaniard, you mean....

Spanish is the language, spaniard is the people.... Elementary non google-translator english.

@@MrSludov Well, as someone whos studying English everyday, I've seen Spanish people be used too. Most times, I never see Spaniard being used so. Most times when I google it, I see "Spaniards, or Spanish people, are an ethnic group native to Spain." as an answer too. No need to go "Elementary non google-translator english" to me as if I was stupid though! All of us can make mistakes

Spain will become the garden of Europe! Everyone wants to live there. Who needs buildings!!!!!!

@@mireillefarjon2737 i dont know? People ? We arent cavemen anymore lol

I wanna do a short term course in Spain any idea

I live in the "empty Spain"-"España vaciada" as we call it, and I am very happy to live here, wouldn't change it, it is peaceful, no traffic jams, no contamination, you can walk everywhere in town, you know a lot of people of the city, I have very beautiful lands around to go hiking... simple but happy life

@@elenavs8703 I study in Pamplona now. It’s definitely not as peaceful, but I’ve passed by a small town once and it was pretty sweet!

Thats a simple reduction that doesnt reflect all the thruth. Yes, what you say happened, but historically speaking many regions in Spain have been way more under populated than others. What happened is that, during a few decades/centuries, this underpopulated areas saw an spike in their populations.

No te falta razón, por culpa de la guerra civil y por una industrialización de la sociedad mucha gente que vivía en el campo fue forzada a vivir en la ciudad. Pero eso es algo que se sigue forzando, cortando el suministro a servicios necesarios para la vida como un colegio, medios de transporte, médico, banco o internet.

@@sergiom9958 a ver si desarrolamos España que es lo que falta. Que allí en Noruega tiene un sitio más vacío y están de putamadre

@@sydex_4507 Pero ellos no son tan vagos como nosotros ( No digo que tu ni yo seamos vagos ), ellos tienen una población dispuesta a progresar. En cambio cuando miras a los países del sur de Europa te encuentras con gente que no mueve ni un dedo y que cuando tenga la primera oportunidad se irá de su país a otro más desarrollado como Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 o se irá a evadir impuestos a Andorra 🇦🇩 si es que an logrado amasar un buen dinero 💰. Esa es la triste realidad y solo la nuevas generaciones pueden cambiar esta mentalidad dañina, pero no nos engañemos eso no va a pasar.

@@sydex_4507 si los políticos dejarán de robar, quizás habría esperanzas.

Development is always a trade off.

dutch produce more export farm produkts than spain

@@adotholland22 Dutch exports mostly flower bulbs. Spain retains much of the foods produced for local use.

@@adotholland22 the percentage of food imports is also very similar for the Netherlands and Spain (12% vs 11%, respectively), which I also found interesting! The Netherlands are very efficient at producing their own food, especially considering the available land mass. I think in Spain food production is more extensive, rather than intensive. Spain also has lots of mountains, and some large areas are borderline deserts, so I imagine that doesn't help.

@@adotholland22 Not for long, when your farmers are being ruined by your government following the stupid, if not evil, WEF directives...

True. xd extremely successful urbanization effort with some good land for Electrying Solar Panels + Wind towers

Lifestyle is also a factor. Most Spaniards prefer to spend their leisure time doing hobbies, eating out, watching movies, and all of that with their friends and family. Sooooo.... They want a public park, a public swimming pool and a public cinema, not a private garden, a private pool and a private home cinema.

@@zackalcaina1896 Si nuestro gobierno no lo impuestaze (si es inventada la palabra) mucha mas gente usaria paneles solares, ie mi familia

Which is a good thing…

Good

30 minutes away doesn't seem like a long distance to an American.

Sean Clapis Well said. Leave "well-enough" alone.

No no no, it all has to be "developed" in some way to make lot of money for someone, somewhere.

I lived there for just over 2 years.. this video sounds like nothing more than an infomercial for globalism.. Spain is a perfect place to live.. Apple shops? No!!! Can you get tobacco on a Sunday? Good luck... Real life? 100%

@@MrLuigiFercotti How close is this video to the reality? Knowledge is power.. what we're fed is as information is nought but an abomination.. I love that country with a passion this guy knows less about Spain than wiping his own arse

y de esos 4, 3 se rompen y el cuarto tarda por huelga 🤣

That is sad, here in the UK we have both local lines and high speed lines sharing the same lines, the high spped services do not stop at lesser important local village and small town stops and so only stop at main stations along the route, the local services will stop at all or most stations along the route. We lost the majority of our lines and stations during what is called "The Beeching Cuts", to save me time typing and to save you the effort of researching the following is from Wikipedia. The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports:- The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board. The first report identified 2,363 stations and 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of railway line for closure, amounting to 55% of stations, 30% of route miles, and 67,700 British Rail positions, with an objective of stemming the large losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition from road transport and reducing the rail subsidies necessary to keep the network running. The second report identified a small number of major routes for significant investment. The 1963 report also recommended some less well-publicised changes, including a switch to the now-standard practice of containerisation for rail freight. Protests resulted in the saving of some stations and lines, but the majority were closed as planned; Beeching's name remains associated with the mass closure of railways and the loss of many local services in the period that followed. A few of these routes have since reopened; some short sections have been preserved as heritage railways, while others have been incorporated into the National Cycle Network or used for road schemes; others have since been built over, have reverted to farmland, or remain derelict with no plans for any reuse or redevelopment. Some, such as the bulk of the Midland Metro network around Birmingham and Wolverhampton, have since been incorporated into light rail lines.

I am spanish and don't agree since I live in barcelona the ave is a great way to get to Madrid.

@@danielj3338 Comprendo. Pero como valenciano te digo que nos ha hecho mierdas quedarnos sin "cercanías" para que cuatro trajeados puedan plantarse en Madrid (o en Barcelona) en un ratito. Ha sido un desastre. Muy español eso de izar aún más al privilegiado, pero muy triste.

True is your 1st paragraph

From a perspective of a tourist I agree 100% But perspective of a Spanish people may be different. Living in undeveloped places with no oportunities, poor internet and poor conections with bigger cities may be challenging.

​@@foxx9555 spaniard here; we call all these places "la España vaciada" which translates to "the emptied Spain". but actually since covid began and made practically everyone work online, a LOT of people went to these regions (whether it was to relax from the urban spaces or just because it's their actual hometown). this managed to raise awareness on the situation and we're working on better rural-urban connections (physical ones and also internet and infrastructures). it's not an incredibly big deal, but everyone is pretty worried about the situation because the people that still live in these parts of Spain are mostly older folks whose children had to go to college or something, and if one of them ever needed medical assistance it would most likely take a while, depending on where they are. and to all tourists: PLEASE visit rural Spain, i still have a lot to see while still being amazed when i see the vast fields in castilla-león or the yellow land in la-mancha. i can only truly recommend the place where im from, Galicia (the coast and countryside part), full of beautiful places and habitats to contemplate

@@foxx9555 You make a good point. @13part has already told you about the term "España vaciada", but until a few years ago, it was much more common to hear "España vacía" (empty Spain). There was a conscious choice to switch the term from "empty" to "emptied", the implication being that many of those places weren't just untouched natural parks, but areas which had been much more active in the past but people had left because of a lack of investment and opportunities.

Obviously this attitude is part of the problem.

@@Senkino5o Problem? WIth that thinking worldwide, it will be our demize.

@@Senkino5o ?? Part of what problem? Should they have more suburbs? More sprawl? It's good to have large unpopulated lands, or large agricultural and nature areas. Healthy small towns and villages are important too. But overall spreading out the population is not wise, especially if we need to rewild many regions to help with climate change and maintaining eco-systems. This video is strange...

@@Senkino5o big cities are the tumors of our planet!

I envy you! But I'm happy for you.

I'm Spaniards but lived the last 15 years abroad and travelling the world. Now I'm back just to fall in love again with the diverse beauty of my country. Had to travel the planet to appreciate it.

What were your favourite landscapes? I'm curious to see if I've been there and if I can visit, too... living in Santander now.

@@ililnavehbenjamin You then should visit Cabárceno natural reserve

@@ililnavehbenjamin me too what a coincidence

when i went everybody went to stand in the water and the towns were left empty so i took advantage and filled my socks with spanish tangerines

Guapa !!!

Hopefully u speak Spanish and not like others who don’t

@@Nicola_evans I do! :) Spent ten years there, had a business, dealt with abogados, hacienda, police, hospital, worked with Spanish musicians and venues...back in UK since 2021 and wanting to go back to Spain someday, hopefully not too far in the distant future! I practice Spanish every day to stay fluent; my daughter not so much, but I just told her it's important when we go back, even for a visit, that we can still communicate with our friends and old neighbours :)

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I am portuguese too and everytime I enter Spain more deeply I always feel amazed with the landscape, culture, preservation of the historical sites, antique city centers, arquitecture and the contagious joy of people.

Yep, Alentejo is essentially countryside and pure unmolested nature for what feels like 100s of square miles, and that's beautiful. In a world of constant modernization and city expansions, we need to do more to preserve natural infrastructure and actually let the planet breathe.

@@ZediBaptista The planet doesn't need to "breathe" you jabroni. There's plenty of undeveloped land. Too much actually. More cities are needed especially with technology advancing at an exponential rate.

@@AdamJensen_ shut up

Can compared with my grandmother town (5K in the 50s to 1200 in 2020) to Albacete capital (60K in the 50s to 170K in 2020) And thats in a rural province, OFC Mallorca, Alicante, Barcelona, Madrid or other regions the growth was bigger.

Where in the Balearic Islands are you located? Mallorca has seen an increase in national and international population that exceeds the housing availability since the 90's.

En Cuenca nos mantenemos con 50k. In Cuenca we keep our population at 50k.

In Bulgaria we have faced the same problem. I can't believe in the similarities I see in this video and in Bulgaria. Many people, including myself left their small hometowns for the bigger cities or the capital. We even have the famous so called ghost villages with 0 population and many are facing the same. My hometown has declined its population from 98k to 60k in the span of 20 years

@@eliza9799 Zdrasti! In Spain, we have the same situation. If you travel around the countryside areas where the population has declined exponentially, you will find many many many towns and villages completely abandoned for decades. Some of them are being bought for 1 euro in order to bring some kind of life back to the areas. The same problem Bulgaria and Spain have is that many young people (18-35) left the countries for wealthier regions in the EU.

On purpose. It’s cultural but who decides culture more then government when they control corporations, Military industrial complex is something Ide advise researching

That something that happens all across western countries. It doesnt matter if we talk about Spain, France, Germany or even USA, Japan, Russia etc.

The Mathew principle at work….

Is this really that atypical?

My country, despite being small, it has many places that are abandoned now, and most of the people live in our capital and largest city.

Pat you're everywhere

yeah man

Lol. The US only has like 1 or 2 per state. So Kinda same.

Heck and not even all states have one

Lol

Ik Burgos cuz hoi4 fascist spain

Beautiful and much cheaper to visit than Madrid or Barcelona.

Tons of history there yeah totally would love to visit

I was in Toledo, but the area is so dry and kinda lifeless

Gems indeed they are

I agree with you but this issue also means a lot of historical villages and towns end up being abandoned and or in disrepair because everyone is leaving. I think that’s sad too. There needs to be a balance

RIGHT????!

I'm Spaniard, we don't want the empty Spain to become urban, we want empty Spain to become attractive to live in. Nowadays many young people move to big cities in order to have true opportunities, better jobs and a better life in a whole. Many towns are losing people every year and are beimg abandoned just to visit them in summer. The idea is not to turn this towns into cities but instead preserve them

Definitely. These "high density" areas can become even more dense if "great society" type programs are used to shoot the absolute density of these small areas higher. People think 10-20 story high rise condos are the peak achievement of population density. They're so laughably wrong. Just think about it. [Before a certain war in eastern Europe] we had enough food to feed 9bil people. (Probably more, but I don't remember the source; I just remember reading it *somewhere.* ) However, the agricultural development required still takes up its own amount of land. This is why environmental & creature conservation exists.

It's not a problem but there are groups that are pushing for more people per square mile. All of us living like rats in mega cities. Yuck.

I’ve always told myself I’d see Valencia first of I ever visited Spain. Been wanting to go for years.

@@Jibberish18 I've went there with my gf last summer, and its amazing tbh. The whole city is big, but everything is in reach with a bike (or escooter). The people are really nice and its a really safe city. Plenty of clubs but also plenty of sightseeing's. And a nice beach ofc

C'est noté

We have a Valencia here in Southern California. It’s the opposite of beautiful, with the only good thing about it being that Magic Mountain is there (a kickarse roller coaster park) lol.

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 no offense but with this description I’d probably prefer the one I know ahah hope you can visit Europe someday !

Were you on Gladiator?

@@kriztoppa what

@@lollybowser Yo creo que respondió eso en forma de broma, resumidamente, porque el "Spaniard" puede significar guerrero español, por eso dijo "Gladiator", aun. así "Spaniard" se puede usar como español (gentilicio)

@@junjie1619 no lo sabia, vaya

@heartsnob Good point, I forgot Maximus, thanks!

Well said. Infrastructure is the key as well as education

You are talking about free market solutions. Spain is notoriously socialistic and favors centralized government programs to 'solve problems'. This means they are only going to spend money where most people are. In a centralized government, you can just delete entire segments of the population and infrastructure from your budget with cheers from the people.

Sounds like Starlink's satellite internet could be the ideal solution in rural Spain.

@@SkepticalCaveman Except nobody in Spain can afford Starlink's prices!

This presumes that having empty space is a bad thing. Yes, the people living there should have good infrastructure and opportunities, but urbanisation is an essential and overall positive process of modernisation.

My grandma is from Ciudad Real, and I see this there too whenever I go to visit - the population is very very old and of the few working age people living there, a lot of them travel to Madrid or Puertollano to work.

They're beautiful because they're not overrun by people.

I wish I could move into these quiet rural places to be honest. I don't like big cities and towns. Pollution, crime, and other unpleasant things. Being far away from other people would be divine.

You should go there and raise a family ❤ big cities make few happy

It’s a bit romantic and vestigial of our old ways which will likely die off much like their inhabitants only to be revisited in videos like this and books. Clearly we aren’t doing much to revitalize them as the new generation are geared towards urbanization.

I recommend you the autonomous community of Extremadura if you haven't visited! Absolutely stunning :)

Agreed, I learn a lot from him and appreciate the different facets of a topic he covers. Side note: never heard of European Russia before

Spending money in Spain is like giving to charity cause the economy does not support or reach the people living there.

We would love to have you here again, we are one of the most visited countries in the world for a reason. I'm from Zaragoza and from time to time I need to go to those " sparsely populated rural areas " to get my mind of the Big City. Spain is a lovely country and in my humble opinion one of the best in the world, it could do much better if it weren't for the politicians, but I guess thats pretty dificult to change. Now with "working from home " a lot of people from Europe are currently working in the mediterranean coast of Spain because its so lovely. Maybe you could try that =) . Hope you come again !!

Rightly said! Well, I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

Rightly said! Well, I am also here to learn more smart and genuine way on short term investment. I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

@@ericalorraine7943 I'll suggest you lookup Priscilla Dearmin-Turner, she's now our real investment prodigy since the crash and have also help me and others recovered our loses.

Yep. That's one of the reason that makes living in Spain so great. In one and a half hour you can be in a different region with different landscape, food and weather. From mountain to sea. From snow to beach. From coat to bikini. Magic!!! 😉

Wich kind of jobs do you have there tho ?

@@dimmacommunication you can either work in the provincial city in service sector or if u have some luck like in Valladolid, in industry. In the empty spain teachers and health workers are always needed.

@@davidgomez8742 Thank's :) Well yeah health workers are appreciated everywhere

@@dimmacommunication Agriculture

And yet Spain has enough buying power to purchase USA TOLL ROADS

Italia and Spain are close brothers. We are envious of your capacity for selling your great gastronomy outside, that's something we will never achieve. Love Italia!

Is Spain and Greece similar to Italy in terms of culture and traditions?

Overcrowded? Nah Great Britain is overcrowded not Italy, I'm Italian too!

@@lombingo I think it's because Italian food is instantly recognizable around the world, people love pasta, soups, breadsticks, etc.

Agree... we Spaniards love Italians!!

¡Claro que si! España es bonita y no solo por historia y gastronomía, si no por la madre naturaleza que se paso de belleza con España 😍

@@thecatlow2773 sin duda alguna !!! Sus paisajes son fuera de lo normal y junto con la gente que es amable siempre sonriente ya tenemos el plato completo

rumania tambien es hermosa, sus bosques en el norte son fantasticos y su legado historico muy interesante.....

Thats because u never go to portugal

@@cesarlima88 Portugal is such a great country, best country in Europe for surfing (i'm a surfer) and it matches very well with Spain as a brother country. And i love the accent from Portugal, it is so intense and poetic. I love the Iberian brotherhood and i bet for Spain and Portugal to host together the world cup in 2030. Spain and Portugal brothers with Italy and Greece. We'll rule the world once more. The Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, the iberian Empire. Greetings from a Spaniard who loves Portugal, Italy and Greece

Where is she fron specifically?

Your last name (Llorens) is the same last name of the late Puerto Rican poet Luis Llorens Torres. Probably, you are distant relatives because that last name is not common neither in Spain or Puerto Rico.

@@LarsVonTrier2007 it's a catalán name

@@miguelbautistaperez7903 alfamen, Zaragoza

@@Marquipuchi I knew that just by looking at Ll.

Go to the actual countryside of NRW, west and north - I grew up there and the transport connections and services in rural Spain and Portugal are so much better than that even today...

ooof

Now with comrade Putin, we dig holes to live in. Shopping is easy because we carry so little. We have dogs pull us now on roller skates because of the Special Operations.

@@danbrownellfuzzy3010 well, look forward to may 9th when putin will either give a total war speech like goebells or retreat from ukraine, illegally occupying it

Spain economy is in worse state than Russia one.

@@Emperoroleary I see the guy shying away from spending more money on a war while his economy is twittering down to nothing

It is sad, but living here I enjoy all áreas with very few People. So blessing to me but I understand your point

My experience is the opposite. When I went to Asturias a few months ago, I found surprising the amount of small towns with people we came across whilst making our way through mountains. And as for young people, most of them, if anything, go to cities nearby, not necessarily Madrid or Barcelona. Specifically in Asturias, where there's coast, there's many industrial areas.

You can take in peaceful refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Myanmar. Just some Sharia law, but those old folks will get some company.

@@nikhilpanikkar The issue here is local Spanish culture fading. I fail to see how importing refugees from completly different societies and religions will help revive traditional Asturian culture.

@@wormius7350 it’s quite sad but this is Western Europe now, we have low birth rates and now we are reliant on immigrants/people from different cultures. Slowly our cultures are fading and we are becoming the multicultural centers of the old world

yep, just another terrible video.

Repent to Jesus Christ “He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.” ‭‭John‬ ‭15:2‬ ‭NIV‬‬ J

@@getonthecrossanddontlookba5004 “get on the cross”, what a horrible, wrongly chosen nickname… what about “get crucified, is nice”, or “get your hands perforated by a huge nail, is priceless” or what about, “come and suffer, we know you like it” at least two of my choices rhyme lol… Your beloved bible makes reference to people like you, which pray in the wrong places just to show off… go elsewhere.

You are right. I like my Spain just like that, where you can go from a modern bibrant city into a nature solitude and History fullness in just 1h driving

agree, this guiris only want industrlization at the expense of everithing.

the only thing you get out of that are empty towns and villages that wont last another 50 years

I think you mean Calatayud :P

@@LtdJorge Indeed, nonetheless, I think it's pretty clear he meant Calatayud.

@Abdulaziz Mohammed Lol

@Abdulaziz Mohammed Well, al-Andalus is an important part of our history, but from 929 on al-Andalus was a different state than the caliphate and only belonged to Moroccan empires for some years from the late 11th century to the early 13th. Al-Andalus wasn't Morocco; it has its own vibe.

@Abdulaziz Mohammed get Lost Troll

My goodness! Where do you live?

@@nadinemclean1671 I live in South Texas. There’s also no public transit systems like that high speed train. Spain sounds like pretty awesome place.

@@sethlarson9433 Oh, you live in Texas, Seth? Well, I live in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and we've got wide open spaces, too, outside the cities. I agree with you about that quiet, peaceful part of Spain. I would move there in an instant.

American problems.

@@molenini What do you mean?

Vuelve cuando quieras, amigo.

@@aha3885 Planeamos volver a visitarlo pronto.

Who hasn't visited Spain ? It would be incomprehensible to anyone in Europe to have not visited Spain. Are you American ?

@@magiclion dude has a Colorado flag in his profile. So yes.

@@kailehtinen5972 Yup I'm a Colorado native. 😂 👍🏼

vast expanses of open land, as god intended, remains only in the the Americas and Australia

I live in Pamplona, in the northern Spain. In fact the Santiago route goes through my city so you probably have been here. People usually don't consider how different is Spain from North to South, not only climate but culture are totally different. So maybe you can find more villages and towns through the Northern part than you probably will if you went to the unpopulated areas on the south, which are bigger, hotter and more arid.

@@ijanices ¡Seguro que sí! Y he visitado el sul también (las regiones andaluces de Almería, Cabo de Gata, las Alpujarras y Granada). Me gustaron mucho sus montañas áridas y gran paisajes ensoleados, pero por eso no habría sido possible caminar gran distancias (entre sus pueblos y ciudades) tan fácilmente que en el norte...

A thousand kilometer walk you say? Well Melbourne to Sydney is approximately 878kms, (by road) so I am sure you'd come across a few cafes somewhere along the way lol. Plus probably a few poisonous snakes, poisonous spiders, poisonous plants, poisonous anything else, and anything else that is out for a stroll including but not limited to, crazy people. However, Australia is a BIG place compared to Spain, so the population density scope may differ slightly. Haha ;) (

@@oceania68 Sure... But in Europe you come across towns (or at least villages) every 5 to 10 km. I've driven both highways and backroads between Sydney and Melbourne (I lived in Canberra for a time) and between major centres in the most densely populated corridor here in Canada (the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor that's roughly the same distance). Even if you're super fit, you can only walk 30km or so a day in practice and once you leave suburbia, you're lucky to find food or drink (let alone a place to stay - unless you're equipped for heavy wilderness camping) every 50km in most parts of either country... I was born and raised on the Prairies in Western Canada: there it's a lot more like walking from town to town in SA or WA!

Cuando dices gran parte de la economía se ha dedicado al turismo te refieres al 14% como mucho.

Hay que estudiar más.....el plan de convertir a España y otros países en países de servicios.....léase turismo, agricultura, etc etc. empezo hace más de 50 años.....y ahora ya está funcionando a tope.....lo que pasa que la pandemia por ejemplo nos ha arruinado.....2 años sin turismo....única fuente de ingresos.....porque en la agricultura nos han engañado totalmente.....los italianos venden nuestro aceite en USA....etc etc en fin

Si, y tambien decimos...."Pueblo pequeño infierno grande", y si hay algo en España eso es pueblos pequeños. De hecho nunca han sido fueron ni tan pequeños ni tan infierno. Que es una de las razones fundamentales por las que la gente se ha ido y se va....

Eso! Aquí solo playa y camareros 12 horas por 500€ al mes! Para qué fomentar la vida en los pueblos...

​@@josemargar5285 si sumas hostelería, hoteleria, restauración, proveedores, etc. suma un 41%.

Get well soon 🥺😞

U live in bread

@@bobtheflyingdonkey not pán, pain, lmao

Básicamente vivir en Latinoamérica

Same

You would love our country, almost every place has something unique. If you come, you will come back, I'm pretty sure of that.

@@Charok1 i thought that was Italy?

​@@ktrimbach5771 Spain has the only desert of Europe, the desert of Almeria. Tons of spaghetti westerns and other types of movies were filmed there, like _Indiana Jones and the last crusade,_ for example.

Spain has amazing history!!! Like the time they went to this funny looking place and ended up gathering new resources and gold 🤓 not only that but they destroyed a underdeveloped society 🤓 and making mixed children 🤪

Now Spain has to live with a huge Latin side near America 🥺😥😢😭

He's not framing the low density bad, he's pointing out the worse living conditions, that was the point of the video.

40% of people in the empty bit don't have internet connection, my guy.

well, the train system it's a s...t, the governments form 1990 until now have spent lots of milions to create the largest high velocity train grid in Europe and even top of the world, but even the most busied line (BCN-MAD) it's not economically profitable. Instead of that, they should have strengthened the regular trains because they are not good, they have lots of problems and people have to buy a car to go from a near town to the center of the nearest city without needing it, only if the regular trains would be a bit more better financed it would be so gread for milions of people with less money inverted. Sorry for any grammar mistake...

@@sillycritic9649 Why exactly is no internet connection such a nightmare? Is it really hard to believe some people can manage living without it when they've done it for thousands of years

@@starman3778 Repeat this debate with Automobiles as the subject. Then debate the domestication of electricity. Then surgery. Then debate cooking meat before ingesting. The supportive statement that humans managed without these things for thousands of years may still be employed to make your point in any of these arguments.

it was less empty than it is now ha

California has a lot of Mediterranean vibes

@@zarzaparrilla67 Except for the ocean temperature, which is way colder and lasts fewer months >20°C than the in Mediterranean. The only Californian region with 'decent' water temperatures to enjoy the beach in the summer is pretty much limited to L.A. - San Diego coastline.

@@you2be839 Yeah I guess that makes sense since the Mediterranean is a small closed sea compared with the immensity of the Pacific Ocean

@@zarzaparrilla67 Actually, at first glance it doesn't make sense. NYC and Boston on the US east cost, which is already Oregon state latitude and are bathed by an ocean too, do get ocean temps 20°C (and even above that) for a few weeks during summer... whereas the whole Californian coastline north of Santa Maria struggles to reach 17°C, with vast regions of the coast even closer to single digit temperature numbers throughout the summer! Blame the wind direction, ocean currents and upwelling coastal phenomena for the chattering teeth that a dive into the Californian Pacific Ocean water brings.

Plen de estabilesioun

En resumen, este vídeo estarìa prohibido en España, dice que Franco consiguió hacer de España el segundo país de mayor crecimiento mundial, cuando antes era un desastre e impulsó la industria en Cataluña y País Vasco. Catalanes y vascos deben gran parte de su prosperidad a Franco.

@@PM-ld4nn lo que tú omites es que ese desastre de antes al que te refieres lo provocó o al menos lo empeoró él mismo

Literal 👍🏼😂

@@PM-ld4nn claro. Tras provocar una guerra y causar millates de muertos, devastar familias, ciudades, incontables crimenes contra la humanidad y cerrar el pais durante decadas estableciendo una dictadura ferrea, ultranacionalista y criminal, retrocediendo el pais a una epoca cuasi medieval. Entonces recibe con los brazos abiertos inversion extranjera y es un gran gobernante. Preguntate si en lugar de causar uno de los peores episodios del pais, que se hubiese conseguido con un gobierno democratico y libre de corropcion.

Asi que tiene empleo; o no? No entiendo como alguien tan VITAL, literally, necesitaria un empleo. If he cannot earn a living in such , again, VITAL for the village position he might need to leave, if only trying in a comarcal town ; could always go back to square one.

Help me understand something Jorge, the spanish gov't doesn't want immigration because that would mean more arabs/africans in spain and I understand historically why that's a no no but how will you replace this aging population? why would the gov't invest in areas with declining populations?

Hopefully the Chinese will not invade those beautiful areas they are already In New Zealand, Ecuador, Brasil.

@@madeleinedeburgh7016 really? i dont got any info about that its really true.....its something that the pcc got in his agenda? china now wanna make some silent invasion, after covid, to the world?

Well, we don't. Tu comentario es tan frívolo que voy a ahorrarme el insulto.

@@RufianEmbozado no nos pongamos agresivos por un comentario de un guiri

@@RufianEmbozado Well, we do. Muchos españoles estamos a favor de las ciudades densas y renaturalizar amplias áreas del país. No necesitamos vivir al lado de los campos como en la edad media ni colonizar y arrasar cada metro cuadrado del planeta.

But way safer without cartels, crime and narcos. You might have to deal with gypsies or other minorities, but they're not as bad...

@@fergp6585 lo siento, pero no estoy a favor de olvidarnos de la historia de miles de pueblos preciosos. Tenemos una tradición cultural que ya me gustaría a muchos países del mundo. Hay que conservarlo cueste lo que cueste, sin interferir con la naturaleza, tal y como se ha hecho hasta ahora. Si se quiere renaturalizar entonces quitad latifundios a las gentes

lmao

Been to Australia couple times on projects. If you want less people, just start driving inland, gets very rural very quick.

Yah… I was gonna say spains uninhabited land is totally rookie compared to Australia 😂😂😂

I think the video was meant to be negative on purpose. To put them in a bad light.

Canada has entered the chat

...and many coastal areas are concrete wastelands and very polluted but apparently that's less of a problem than so called " empty areas" for the author.

Muy importante porque la historia demostró que los españoles o ibéricos no les gusta el clima frío por eso no retuvieron el sur de Estados Unidos; bueno es mi teoría pero tiene sentido de acuerdo a las temperaturas

@@yzkehelabrahams creo que se confundió, el sur de Estados Unidos goza de altas 🌡, los españoles no les intereso esas zonas porque todos los que colonizaron era por iniciativa propia producto de su enriquecimiento en minas de lugares como Chihuahua o Zacatecas, caso conocido la expedición de Oñate en Nuevo México..

My great grand parent built a stone house without heating systems. That problem was solve by animals that would live inside the bottom floor. These house with 1 m thick walls are termally super stable. In winter times, heat from animals would provide the warmth, in summer times animals out, no need of aircon, perfect 22C degrees inside with 37C outside. We need to understand how life was and then judge. Nowadays with other standards such as the “Código técnico de la edificacion” insulation is not an issue in newly built properties

I wouldn't call that a bad climate, maybe not a perfect one. But where I live in the US (Ohio) is basically same give or take a few degrees and it is an absolutely acceptable climate IMO.

Barcelona ist By far more beautiful

It’s just a geological region and we study it like so in Spain. On this video it gives the idea it is a geographical region and it is not. It won’t appear on a map unless you are studying geology.

Thank you!! So many people idealizing the forgotten empty lands, just because they are beautiful to visit it doesn't mean that they are good to live. The severe lack of basic services and job opportunities in these areas is a real problem that makes life quite hard, it's really depressing to visit any village in the vast regions of Castille, Aragon or Extremadura and realising that the average age of residents is around 60/70. These regions are (quite literally) dying

Seems odd there are not major farming families in those areas. Those old towns are there for a reason....

Perhaps the young people should not study and become farmers and such . If everyone becomes a scientist then many will end up unemployed living in shitty tiny apartments in the big cities and have far worse lives than if tgey stayed back home

@@Protato666 I'm sorry but I doubt you can make a living out of farming alone that easily. My uncle has a farm he takes care of everyday but it is just so the family has nice fresh things to eat from time to time. He has to clean the streets to make an income.

@@yemysticrevellers6877 farming what?…goats or olives?