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The saying 'proud as a Spaniard' seems to exist in English, but it doesn't appear to be very common. I came to Spain from Germany, however, where stolz wie ein Spanier still is said with some regularity.
When I first got here, I frankly had no clue why anyone would be proud to be Spanish.
Every fourth person under the age of 30 was unemployed.
Everywhere you looked, there were freshly built ruins: houses, apartment and office buildings, malls that had been started and never finished.
The word crisis was on everyone's lips.
The road is in need of repair. La crisis.
The elevator isn't working. La crisis.
Their marriage is on the rocks. La crisis.
Handymen were not always working with the sharpest tools in the shed. We had lots of work done to our old apartment, and the quality of the work often left much to be desired. (Admittedly, with persistence on our part, we did, in the end, get quality work [and, I'm sure, quite a reputation!].)
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And the stupidity! If you have a new doorbell put in because you can't stand the sound of the old one, which all but induced a heart attack every time the mail carrier came, you expect it to ring when people on the street press the button. You do not expect the new bell to ring only when the button just outside the door to the apartment is pressed and the old one to ring when people seek entry from the street. If you think like that—i.e. normally—you probably shouldn't apply for a job as an electrician here in Spain.
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Then there's the work ethic.
Here most office workers arrive on time for their job. Well, within a quarter of an hour of starting time, which is like being on time here. After they get their workplace organized for the day, it's usually time for coffee. It takes half an hour to consume a thimbleful of the brown deliciousness. Just in time to return to their desks and discuss with co-workers where to go for their three-hour lunch break.
Ah, ¡siesta!
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The saying 'proud as a Spaniard' seems to exist in English, but it doesn't appear to be very common. I came to Spain from Germany, however, where stolz wie ein Spanier still is said with some regularity.
When I first got here, I frankly had no clue why anyone would be proud to be Spanish.
Every fourth person under the age of 30 was unemployed.
Everywhere you looked, there were freshly built ruins: houses, apartment and office buildings, malls that had been started and never finished.
The word crisis was on everyone's lips.
The road is in need of repair. La crisis.
The elevator isn't working. La crisis.
Their marriage is on the rocks. La crisis.
Handymen were not always working with the sharpest tools in the shed. We had lots of work done to our old apartment, and the quality of the work often left much to be desired. (Admittedly, with persistence on our part, we did, in the end, get quality work [and, I'm sure, quite a reputation!].)
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And the stupidity! If you have a new doorbell put in because you can't stand the sound of the old one, which all but induced a heart attack every time the mail carrier came, you expect it to ring when people on the street press the button. You do not expect the new bell to ring only when the button just outside the door to the apartment is pressed and the old one to ring when people seek entry from the street. If you think like that—i.e. normally—you probably shouldn't apply for a job as an electrician here in Spain.
pixel2013 / Pixabay
Then there's the work ethic.
Here most office workers arrive on time for their job. Well, within a quarter of an hour of starting time, which is like being on time here. After they get their workplace organized for the day, it's usually time for coffee. It takes half an hour to consume a thimbleful of the brown deliciousness. Just in time to return to their desks and discuss with co-workers where to go for their three-hour lunch break.
Ah, ¡siesta!
In all fairness, the workday continues until 8pm, and few breaks are taken in the afternoon session.
It must also be said that offices in Germany are inefficient as well. Maybe not quite as bad, but similar.
Handymen are rarely on time in Germany, but they insist on you being ready to receive them at an ungodly hour, often 7am, only to arrive at 10:30. And then they expect a tip!
Tipping is virtually unheard of here in Spain. A 5% tip at a restaurant is considered generous. The locals, if they give anything at all, will leave the smaller coins they receive in change on the table for waitstaff. La crisis. Even these token gratuities are disappearing as more and more people pay electronically.
So does Spain do anything better than Germany?
Ten things Spain does better than Germany (and plenty of other countries)
- The people are patient to a fault. They will never show their impatience (if they're feeling it at all) towards foreigners stammering their way through simple transactions. And blasting the horn in traffic is virtually unheard of. You can block an entire street letting your granny out of your car, and Spanish drivers will, if anything, take the opportunity to send off a quick text or strike up a conversation with a passerby or another driver. Germans will toot their horns till the car battery is dead.
- Spain's banks are surprisingly efficient. When we arrived here six years ago—time flies!—there were already very few things that required your physical presence in the bank to do. Transfers from one account to another happened overnight within the country, on the same day if done before 1pm. Germany is only now catching up, but only because the European Union has set standards that all members must adhere to. Today, all bank transfers up to €2,000 are carried out immediately all over Europe.
Germany lagged three years behind Spain with contactless payments by mobile phone. Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
- Similarly, I have yet to come across a business that did not accept credit cards/electronic payments in Spain. On my last trip to Germany, I constantly had to carry my wallet, full of cash. Here in Spain, I barely know where my wallet is half the time, and I struggle to differentiate the coins, so rarely do I use them.
- Letters and packages regularly arrive within a day in-country here in Spain. In Germany we were happy to get our mail within two days, even from one district of Berlin to another. For information, Germany is just over two-thirds the size of Spain.
- The food is better here. If you're looking for good, fresh, honest food, Spain is the place to be. Even in a town like Sitges, with its roughly 30,000 population, most of our produce is as good as fresh off the vine. It is picked when it's ripe, then transported to local markets. What you buy today may have been picked just a day or two ago. It has more flavor and more nutrients than the industrial veggies on offer in Germany. (I generalize, of course.) And it's not smothered in sauces. Most food is prepared with nothing but olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic. Yum.
- The pace and quality of life in Spain are healthier, the work-life balance saner. People live longer. 2.2 years longer, in fact, than in Germany. (4.5 years longer than in the USA, by the way.)
- The weather is better in Spain. This is, of course, not something the Spanish can influence. They merely ended up in the right place. And naturally, not everywhere in Spain has perfect weather. The interior of the peninsula gets loads of snow in the winter, but the winter is considerably shorter than in Germany.
- Like the weather, the people are warm and friendly. When my husband and I were thinking about moving to Sitges, we looked at a few apartments, just to get oriented. I remember after one such visit we sat down on a bench outside the station to talk about it. An elderly couple sat down and struck up a conversation. They asked where we were from, how we liked Sitges—the usual small talk. When we told them we liked their town a lot and were thinking of moving there, they went into selling mode. We'd love it here, they said, and people would make us feel very welcome. They gave us tips about where to look for the best apartments and how to check up on repossessed houses and apartments to make sure we got a good deal. Wow.
- As a gay couple, we have never been made to feel unwanted. The Spanish do 'live and let live' better than anyone else I've ever come across. Spain introduced same-sex marriage in 2005. Only the Netherlands and Belgium started earlier. A year into our new life in Spain, the country celebrated the tenth anniversary of same-sex marriage. And I do mean celebrated! Same-sex marriage enjoys broad popular support in Spain. Polls would suggest that the Germans also support it, but there it feels more as if the people feel they should support same-sex marriage because it's the right thing to do, rather than them actually feeling it.
- The trains run on time. I didn't bother checking the statistics on this one because I wouldn't believe them anyway. Every transport enterprise fudges their punctuality statistics anyway, so I'm just going here on my subjective experience. That tells me that most trains are on time in Spain, whereas there hasn't been a single punctual arrival in Germany since 1983.
Proud For Mac And Cheese
I'd say that's quite a list of things to be proud of. And you can add in the pride most Spaniards feel at their reaction to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis. As a collective, the Spanish (and the many expats living here) managed to turn things around. There was a time Spain had the highest rate of infections and death toll in Europe. By pulling together, they—no, we—all but got rid of the virus.
Prod For Crossbow
That's turning around again, this time for the worse, since the decision to re-open the country, but the response has again been resolute and widely supported. We'll go back into confinement again if we have to in order to protect the vulnerable population. And we'll all be as proud as a Spaniard when the work is finished.
