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spanglish · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 742 Location: working on that

Is it really that good? Does the allure of the unattainable contribute to the mystique?

Teaching in Spain sounds great to me (an American who's never been there) - beautiful country, learn Spanish, history, architecture, more developed economy.

Does Spain merit all the attention it gets?

Moore · Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 730 Location: Madrid

You have sun, relaxed people, it's fairly cheap, European, with good food, and you get to learn Spanish too which is pretty useful back in the US. Also it's one of the only places where Americans can still more or less get away with working in Europe, at least for a while, although it's getting a lot hairier recently with deportations (see other posts).

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calgrl471 · Joined: 13 May 2009 Posts: 36

Americans want to go because you can be close to travel around europe... you get to learn/practice spanish. Great food!

plato986 · Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 13

Nice weather, easy to learn language, not extremely expensive and good architecture are all the reasons for me Very Happy

outofseoul · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 19 Location: Spain

My partner is from Spain and it was easier for me to move here than the other way around. I don't mind giving up 8 months of winter in a small isolated northern Canadian town to be with him in Barcelona. I don't miss hockey or skiing from my front door. Here I have the beach and life in the streets.

I had previously been teaching in Korea. I also don't mind giving up life in that xenophobic part of world. Even though the salaries there are much much much better, there was a glass ceiling. No foreigner may ever be put in a position of power. In Spain, I have a fighting chance at a decent future. Here there are people I can relate to and a language I actually enjoy learning. There is also most of all my boyfriend who is awesome. In Spain, all of Europe is at our doorstep and we don't have to spend an entire day in an expensive miserable airplane to experience a totally different culture.

spanglish · Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 742 Location: working on that

lol outofseoul. I did my undergraduate at a tiny college in a tiny isolated very cold Canadian town. Good memories, but still... I didn't learn how to play hockey. Maybe that would have helped.

It sounds like you're pretty happy with being in Spain. Great promotion, now I want to go too.