Viva Franco!
They had some tough economic times under him (the West isolated him until Cold War needs required we reach out to him), but they were certainly better off than now. Spain was Spanish under him, now it is inundated with foreign “guest workers” as the post-Christian Spaniards have stopped breeding.
From 1959 until his death, only Japan had higher economic growth than Spain....like Pinochet, Franco eventually listened to the free market economists, and instituted reforms.