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We night stop in this little village high on top of mountains just 27 km from the coast of southern Spain
This mountain town has experienced unprecedented growth since 2002 with property
But as all good stories come to a end the bottom fell out of property market and all new building work stoped
Completed apartments ready for occupants are standing empty all over this town of 2000 inhabitants
Speaking to the locals on what and how are they going to survive in tho down turn a answer came forward from a man my age who proudly announces that they have always survived without a supermarket
It is only these new incoming peoples who cannot survive without the supermarket. They all have liitle plots of land where they have all the time cultivated for own use vegetables and milk and a some sheep
They also know from advise passed down from the years since the Moors came to occupy their land , how to survive from the mountains
Hunting wild pigs , collecting mushrooms , and other exotic plants not known to us
Ok good for them and they all provide cleaning and maintenance to these absent landlords.
Until these landlords can afford the up keep they stay on
Every one is waiting for the great collapse as in other towns nearby to confiscate these properties for pennies to the pound value
So strange these people have never been out there village never held a bond or mortgage, just watched these foreigners march in with their big monies, all built on sand castle pork belly projects, and to loose it all
And they the locals walk away with the big loot without risk or raising a finger
Strange world we live in
Those that work and make deals and build and struggle just loose it all to no fault of them selves
Some faraway Banking collapse put it all in motion and the winners are the peasants of Spain
Groete
Yster en Pollie
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