Thanks so much, cll. Now, I know. It’s a beautiful place. Kinda scary, though, because of the seismicity there.
I went to the Canary Islands in 2010 on a transatlantic cruise that started in Barcelona, went around the Mediterranean for a week, and then traced the migration route to San Juan.
It is beautiful, indeed, but very depressed, after so many years of fascism followed by socialism. Official unemployment is 30 percent, so the real figure should be much higher than that. And it shows. So many Spaniards remain chronically “parados”, their term for unemployed - literally, halted, and yet they still encourage massive immigration from Eastern Europe and North Africa. They hit rock bottom, yet they keep on digging.
It’s the wanton suicide of a former world power. And the same thing will happen here in the U.S. if we don’t halt it real soon.