You wouldn’t have wanted to live under Franco.
My in-laws lived under Franco for decades, and left for jobs (most of their younger siblings stayed) - they would visit every two years, and never complained about him. If they were Catalans or Basques seeking independence, maybe they would have disliked him; as Gallegos they were quite OK with him (Galicia had supported him from the start). Unlike our allies the Soviets, Franco was happy to let anyone who wanted to leave do so.
Read “The Last Crusade”, and you’ll get a thorough understanding of Franco himself. He knew democracy had elected the government that oversaw the murder of over 7,000 priests (and hundreds of nuns), and he also knew that the monarchy was flawed as well. He was apolitical, and pledged that he would live and die in a Catholic Spain.
Left-wingers would not. People who just wanted to earn a living and raise their families and did not wave a red flag probably lived very peaceful lives.