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Spain population hits 48M with surge in foreign nationals (thenews.com.pk)
19 points by safaa1993 on Dec 15, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


... and a lot of this foreign people are awesome, I would say

To add context, we welcome more than 70 millions of international tourists each year. Many of this people return regularly and decide to live here after they retire; So a percentage of this foreign nationals group will never compete with unemployed youngsters at all (In fact, they will generate a lot of first-job opportunities for young adults).

Is not always moonlight and roses, but we learnt to appreciate many of this people


> (In fact, they will generate a lot of first-job opportunities for young adults

and increase housing prices.



Compare to our youth unemployment rates to see why this is criminal: https://www.statista.com/statistics/813014/youth-unemploymen...


No one really believes in these numbers in Spain though, tons of under the table cash under flowing around, unlike its western counterparts.


They are going down?


Yeah, that is a really weird comment to make with that source.

Unless they're weirdly trying to show that the influx is creating jobs for their youth? But the comment's tone does not line up with that...


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It's not migrants who created fiscal and bureaucratic hell that disincentivizes people to open companies and employ citizens / become self-employed. It's government that was democratically elected by citizens itself.

Foreigners, on the contrary, often work remotely for other countries, so they don't steal job from Spanish citizens. It's hard to survive in Spain without Spanish, so it's strange that natives lose employment battle to people who don't know the language.


I mean they're at a 14 year low, per your source.




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