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Originally Posted by Royboy39
True....... 
There are no translated documents. No benefits unless and until you pay into the Spanish system and no sympathy if you are able bodied and dont work. |
As I sit here cleaning my gun, wondering which one of god's creatures would go well with potatoes and carrots
, a few questions come to mind: Are the British ex-pats Spanish citizens (or are they in the process of becoming citizens), or do they have some "limbo" status, like Landed Immigrants in Canada (not citizens with the right to vote etc, but official, legal resisdents ... a status which can be easily revoked, say if the landed immigrant commits a crime, even DWI) ... or are they there to work on a temporary basis? And I presume that many of the ex-pats have children, and that these children are educated in Spanish schools in the Spanish language. Am I right in presuming that any children born in Spain to ex-pats are automatically Spanish citizens? Do the ex-pats live in ex-pat communities, or are they spread out through the general population? I'm presuming that even the dullest of the ex-pats would pick up at least a smattering of Spanish, maybe enough to get by in the stores and the bars .... which brings me to that percentage, 30 I believe, that speak Spanish .... I'm assuming that they are fluent. If so, the percentage isn't really all that bad.
Just crossed my mind that Spain and la belle province de Quebec have quite a bit in common