The pain in Spain

Thank you for raising awareness of this issue, which affects part-year residents in Mallorca, who have made the island their part-year home. Fortunately the Balearic government seems to be very supportive of the issue and promises to do something, but sadly nothing is changing at a national level and it's getting harder now to call Mallorca our home, when we also need to travel to other Schengen zone countries (France, Germany, Switzerland, Greece etc) for business or personal reasons (including very simple things like holidays).

If you live in England, everything around you is English. Houses are English styled, there's English food, English pubs, pounds and pence. The same thing applies when you go on holiday, overwhelmingly preferring the handful of English resorts, which have English food, English pubs, and other English people. Unfortunately, you have to change pounds and pence to some far flung third world currency, but that's just one of the drawbacks of hols abroad. The rest of the world just hasn't caught up yet. So, it's only natural to perceive that the only tourists are english. And since it's obvious Brits are "everywhere" that you go abroad, it's equally natural to presume those foreign countries are utterly dependent on British tourism for their modest livelihoods. Plus, foreigners can hardly afford hols abroad anyway, which explains why they're just the "help" at the tourist resorts. They could learn to speak proper English though. But unfortunately, they don't have that kind of sophistication. That's part of the charm of hols abroad. So, yeah, if Brits quit coming, they'd be more impoverished than they already are. It's quite obvious.

Austin MorganTourism is 12% of Spains economy. Of that again 12% is the UK contribution. That is 1.44%. Even IF only half of the numbers were spent in Spain from England, these 0.72% would be negligeable. Instead more French, Italian, and Skandinavian tourists arrive. You are by far not as important to others as you would like to believe. Tourism in Spain booms with or without you anyway.

Our cats, who enjoy a rather luxurious all-inclusive life of leisure also threaten to "leave this dump". But they never do. Even if they did, there's no shortage of other nice cats who'd be delighted to take their place.

When 2023 arrives and it is noted how much less money has been transferred and spent in Spain in 2022 the reality of things will be come apparent regards the 90/180 day rule and how many have fled to other places for their holidays. Wake up and smell the coffee Spain !!!

You chose to believe liars like Farage and Johnson instead of the economists and experts and you voted for Brexit. These are the consequences. I feel for those who voted remain. For Brexiters - tough!

The only ones "deliberately making life difficult for visitors from the UK" are Brexiters. They chose to make you 3rd country citizens. They inflicted this mess on a;; of you, and no, nobody else is going to take the blame on behalf of them. There were told. They went ahead. All thanks for this go to your compatriots, who deliberatly made your life harder. They trashed retirement plans of the elder, career plans of the young, and undermine any exchange between students just for the sake of it ... just to make everybody's environment a bit more hostile. You brokre it. You accept the rules that you were part to defining them, and which you happily applied to others. You own it. You explain to your county people what you did and why you did it. Leace us out of your mess. And btw, don't assume Europeans would not notice how you foulmouth us behind our backs. We can read English, too.

I should be surprised how long this has gone on, but these things are amongst the few post-brexit fury and outrage topics left to moan about, to reassure ourselves "they're out to get us" (because were so important). Nowadays, It's tough to find legitimate things to fury and outrage about without the risk of appearing utterly absurd. So, neglect mention that these all the same policies inplemented the UK too. And everywhere else. That makes it appear to be a uniquely EU thing, and directed specifically at Brits. Though of course, it's just wanton fury and outrage. About nothing special. As usual.

The reality is this is nothing new. The rules have always been there for citizens of third countries - the only difference is the daily amount has recently been increased from 90 Euro to 100 Euro. And, as far as I'm aware, no one is applying this to tourists - a whole lot of scaremongering about nothing.

While I get the anger and offence taken at this sort of thing, what I wonder though is what data the government is working off of to even consider, and then implement, this sort of thing. Unfortunately there seems to be no transparency as to "why". There may actually be a "good" reason for it. For instance, what if there are a huge number of people that are coming over, thinking it's the same as pre-Brexit times, with no money and are expecting to work with no paperwork to do so and are staying well beyond their 90 days. Not saying there is a good reason… just throwing it out there that there might be. As for singling out the Brits… the Germans are inside the Shengen zone, there's nothing Spain can go about them even if they wanted to. So it is possible that Brexit is simply opened a door that wouldn't otherwise have been there. Free movement of people works both ways and this was a very significant reason of Brexit.