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Why 70% of Spain is Empty

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Why 70% of Spain is Empty

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  1. It's not a bad thing the empty land! It means REAL nature and wilderness, and less land consumption and pollution. I'd like to have the same people distribution in Italy but unfortunately we destroyed much more land than the clever Spanish people did.
    Having the people concentrated in towns means also less transportations and less pollution due to transport.

  2. Not sure if this is really a problem. The trend everywhere is populations moving to cities. It’s possible that in Spain there are reasons why this happened earlier, but that doesn’t mean it’s a problem.
    People should be free to choose where they want to live, whether in the city or the countryside.

  3. It's like watching a little mini experimental model of how the US is trending. Let's isolate ourselves and not invest any money in our infrastructure or our people. Let big business reign supreme.

  4. It's not a problem, it's a blessing. Please don't make another video trying to exploit Spain by suggesting it should have a greater economy and population expansion.

  5. Big surprise, more people live in cities than in the country, and more people live by the coasts than in the centre? 80% of Australians live on the east coast within 100km of the coast….

  6. I live in the Scottish highlands and it is just like how the people in the comments are saying it is in the Spanish planes. Beautfiul, completely in touch with nature and the freshest air and food in the world. No pollution or litter, animals everywhere.

  7. Taxation. That is why. No one wants to have kids because it is too expensive. Cut taxes by half and the population will double. People can barely pay their bills and no one cares about maintaining anything. Local governments are very corrupt and dont care about keeping anything working.

  8. As an Australian, we have heaps more land than Spain, we only have 27 million people, and we all live mostly around the edges as the centre is full of everything that can kill you including temperature…..

  9. National Nature Parks , farmlands, Wildlands ect ect….Spain is example of how to industrialise your country without messing it up , like USA did for instance.

  10. I'm 60, born in Asturias but have lived in Australia for 56 yrs. I plan to spend a lot of my retirement in my 'patria querida'.
    PS we have exactly the same issue in Australia! Everybody (25 million of us) live on the coast!

  11. In this video, I hate it when everything is compared with US (Land sizes, population per sqr km etc) . US is not the measuring tape for everything. Its time people grow out of it and look into the world which is outside their own well.

  12. Well it is good for the Environment so that's that.
    In the "developed" world Trends all point to denser city's. The push and pull factors are just too great.
    Even though I love living in the countryside it is more economical and ecological to have city's instead of spread out rural areas.
    That said our goal has to be to get nature inside our urban planning.
    We all want to live in nature, it is the one big factor living outside the city.

    It is quiet , the air is clean and you are just more at home with yourself.

    So in the long run cars have to disappear from city streets. They are just too dirty and loud in such crammed places. Also urban planning has to integrate parks and recreational areas that are in close proximity.

  13. The way he said it takes 45 minutes to drive to a city from a remote village. It takes me a full hour or more just to drive from where I live north of Dallas to south Dallas. I'd love the remoteness of the Spanish countryside with the convenience of nothing being too far away. Two weeks ago I drove from Dallas to Lubbock, it took 6 hours and I didn't even leave Texas. I also only drove a small fraction of Texas in the process.

  14. Franco did not start the industrial revolution in Catalonia. That began in the late 1800’s. Franco was not in power until 1939. Those high speed trains need a large population to break even. They are huge money losers. Notice how all the trains go to Madrid? There are no high speed trains on the coast where most of the population lives. There is an airport near Madrid that was built and never used. The amount of graft and corruption in the capital make it impossible to support families. Spain is bankrupt. They bailed out the banks with pension money and now borrow money from the banks with interest to pay the pensions. The banks never paid back the money. The politicians work for the energy company when they retire and get huge salaries. Spain has the highest energy prices in all of Western Europe and used to forbid individual use of solar panels until recently. The government also pays millions for spyware to spy on its citizens, the press and lawyers. Franco won the war and his judges, military and police are still running the country. One can vote but if the state doesn’t like who won the election, they fine them, kick them out or put them in prison.

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