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👋🏻94% of provincial capitals in Spain have seen a decrease in the number of Spaniards living in their centres over the past decade.

I look at why and ask: What’s a city without citizens?

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"Messi returned home on Sunday night. The faces of the employees who let him into (Camp Nou) must have been priceless. The most fascinating thing is that Messi decided to return just when Joan Laporta, the president who kicked him out of the club, was away in Vigo."
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
ICYMI 🇪🇸
🇪🇸Latest La Comunidad piece in inboxes 📥

👋🏻94% of provincial capitals in Spain have seen a decrease in the number of Spaniards living in their centres over the past decade.

I look at why and ask: What’s a city without citizens?

Enjoy, share, gracias!
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
“The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been released from prison after a judge ruled he could serve the rest of his five-year sentence at home.”

Nicolas Sarkozy released just 20 days into five-year prison sentence

Reminds me of the Silvio line from The Sopranos.
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Familiar sounding headline?

A US investment firm has become the biggest shareholder of Atletico Madrid.
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🇪🇸Sunday read with your café con leche ☕️

The exodus of Spaniards from Spain’s city centres.

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November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Bright, cold morning in A Coruña. The locals will enjoy their Sunday caña and lunch after Depor won last night, moving up into the automatic promotion spots.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🇪🇸Sunday read with your café con leche ☕️

The exodus of Spaniards from Spain’s city centres.

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November 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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“Between 2020 and 2025, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment rose by 59% in Madrid and 47% in Barcelona” @brendanboyle.bsky.social
Spaniards split from their city centres
What's a city without citizens?
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November 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"what’s the point of having a big pension if your grandchildren live more than 17,000km away in Melbourne, Australia?

"almost half of those emigrating from Ireland are now aged between 25 and 44, with more than 10,000 Irish moving to Australia last year alone."
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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🇪🇸Latest La Comunidad piece in inboxes 📥

👋🏻94% of provincial capitals in Spain have seen a decrease in the number of Spaniards living in their centres over the past decade.

I look at why and ask: What’s a city without citizens?

Enjoy, share, gracias!
November 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🇪🇸Latest La Comunidad piece in inboxes 📥

👋🏻94% of provincial capitals in Spain have seen a decrease in the number of Spaniards living in their centres over the past decade.

I look at why and ask: What’s a city without citizens?

Enjoy, share, gracias!
November 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
An infuriating watch - the negligence, the corporate greed. #Grenfell
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
New York’s new mayor Zohran Mamdani is one of the many thousand people who bought a share to rescue Real Oviedo in 2012 👏🏻 @sidlowe.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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At one stage, I thought his speech was heading towards Rubiales’ ‘I’m not leaving’ territory, but at last, Mazón is gone.
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
At one stage, I thought his speech was heading towards Rubiales’ ‘I’m not leaving’ territory, but at last, Mazón is gone.
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“Madrid is going to allocate more than €1 million to facilitate a Woody Allen movie to be shot in the capital - I guess with the aim of promoting tourism. Don't the authorities think the area already has enough tourists? Don’t they have anything better to spend our taxes on?”

(El País)
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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🇪🇸 Settling in Spain is a mini-series for those escaping northern Europe’s weather - or Donald Trump.

The 2nd serving is out now 📥

Living life in another language is a shock to the system - here are 3 things that helped me get up to speed & enjoy Spain even more.

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Settling in Spain 2: Getting up to speed with Spanish
3 tips for staying afloat when thrown into the deep end.
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November 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I endorse car-free living #Spain
November 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
If you've a spare €6.1m, this place on the outskirts of Madrid can be yours.
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🇪🇸 Settling in Spain is a mini-series for those escaping northern Europe’s weather - or Donald Trump.

The 2nd serving is out now 📥

Living life in another language is a shock to the system - here are 3 things that helped me get up to speed & enjoy Spain even more.

open.substack.com/pub/brendybo...
Settling in Spain 2: Getting up to speed with Spanish
3 tips for staying afloat when thrown into the deep end.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Buenos días ☀️🇪🇸
November 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The policies of Argentina president Javier Milei have the objective of becoming the next Ireland.

David McWilliams says Ireland’s policies could see us become the next Argentina.
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
November 1, A Coruña #Spain
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Second bank holiday in a row to fall on a weekend in Spain🥲

The December puente gonna be more chaotic than normal as people get the hell out town for a long weekend anywhere.
November 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🇪🇸 📬 Midweek La Comunidad piece in inboxes.

📆This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Valencia floods that claimed the lives of 229 people - here’s what we now know.

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October 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM