lebesset wrote:nice part of the world to live ; your missis can spend all day on the beach in her bikini , property not expensive either
I don't know where you live, but housing in Spain is incredibly expensive. Especially in the Basque Country. I'm moving to London in January and, although it's more expensive, my home city does not have much cheaper renting than London (in the Camden area).
Just so you get an idea, I lived last winter in Long Island, NY. You may know it's not precisely the cheapest household in the US. Well, I lived in a quite large house (basement, lower floor, first floor and attic), and that cost around 0.5 million dollars. You barely buy an 80 sq m flat in Bilbao or San Sebastian with that money.
You may also be interested to know that Spain is the second country in the world with most Unesco human heritage sites (after Italy). There's more to it than beers on the beach. Some of us even got a PhD in condensed matter physics, you know.
I am not amazed by F1 cars in Monaco. I want to see them driving in the A8 highway: Variable radius corners, negative banking, and extreme narrowings that Tilke has never dreamed off. Oh, yes, and "beautiful" weather tops it all.
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