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I really like what Spain is doing recently. If it weren't for climate change, I'd consider moving there.

Al-Khwarizmi an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Much of Spain is indeed getting very unpleasant in the summer with climate change, but in the north there are still regions that are quite fine at the moment. Where I am, we recently beat the all time temperature record with 35 degrees, but that was a single day. Most days these weeks it isn't going over 25, and I don't think we hit 30 in June except for that single day and maybe one other day.

The problem is that the right is poised to win the next election and will probably undo all the policies you like. They're pretty much against everything that has been done in the last 7 years. I still have some hopes that Sanchez might clinch another term because he's a political survivor, but prospects are not great.

Xenoamorphous an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The current government has little chance to get re-elected, and the next one will revert most of these decisions.

ncruces 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

It could be worse can only take a government so far. Eventually, just preaching to the choir catches up with you.

littlecranky67 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Canary Islands are part of Spain and probably unaffected from climate change - we have 19-22°C all year round. If it raises to 25° still pretty livable.

hecrogon 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It isn't that simple, Canary Islands already counts with 2.2 million + tourists people and the fresh water is a highly risk resource even when desalinization plants are widespread, the groundwater aquifers are severely compromised. The mild weather heavily depends on the trade winds. But models predict that due to fact of being so close to Africa heat waves are prone to be more and more frequent compromising the water resources.

b40d-48b2-979e an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

    and probably unaffected from climate change
No place is unaffected.
Daishiman an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Islands are extremely vulnerable to climate change all over, as they are completely dependent in near-term precipitation for all their water (no rivers, no aquifers).

littlecranky67 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

No rivers and no water is reality here for quite a while already. The islands rely a lot on desalination, and there is a big EU-funded project going on to create a desalination plant that not only is used to supply tap water, but the water basin of a new hydroelectric plant [0]. Desalination pretty much solves water issues, IF you have the energy (ideally renewable).

[0]: https://renewablesnow.com/news/construction-starts-on-200-mw...

CalRobert 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Galicia is supposed to be nice

breppp 38 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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pier25 31 minutes ago | parent [-]

In the CPI Spain is not that far off from countries like France, Italy or the US and better than the global average.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

I'm currently living in Mexico and here corruption is a much more serious issue.

breppp 28 minutes ago | parent [-]

I am talking about the current government corruption cases, I assume Mexico is worse, but Spain isn't great for Europe either

fcatalan 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

The made up cases are so many that they deflect each other and the few real ones. The real scandal is the state of our judicial power.

breppp 8 minutes ago | parent [-]

This is pretty common in any country going through a populist phase, they go against the judicial, as is happening in the US