Hi Skeptik and bienvenido! Agree with your comments. There are still significant numbers of small rural villages in Spain which still maintain the sort of agricultural traditions which have all but died out in other more developed parts of Europe. But Spain has been modernizing so rapidly over the last decades that, like you say, the "peasant population who know how to do low input farming" are disappearing, along with some of the villages themselves. I wonder if an early oil peak would be beneficial to Spain: we could do with a nice oil shock here before we lose any more traditional farming practices and before any more useful land gets paved over with even more useless airports and motorways.skeptik wrote:A property market that is overbuilt, heading for a fall, maybe next year. The Spanish Govt expects new housing starts to be significantly down this year compared to last.
A country, which unlike the UK still has a sizeable, though rapidly shrinking peasant population who know how to do low input farming.
Local politics which revolves around political corruption relating to property development, and water supply. Water supply is and will increasingly be a problem. Of the two towns nearest to me, one has already built a desalination plant, the other is about to.
Wind and solar power have a huge unexploited potential. Solar is expanding bigtime. There are shops here which sell only domestic solar heating and power systems. Unlike England, the Spanish interior has plenty of space (cheap land) for large scale solar plant.
Good luck with both. I used to teach English here too, many years ago. Have you got a WEAREDODGY qualification? I never had one, but got by more or less. Anyway, apologies for getting so far off topic (whatever the topic once was). Maybe one of us should post a topic in the international section.skeptik wrote:Im learning Spanish and intend to earn a crust as an English teacher. (Not what I used to do!) Fortunately I have a knack for both languages and teaching.
