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The New Exodus: 700,000 Young Spaniards Have Left Home Looking For Work Abroad
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
When Francisco Pizarro returned to Spain from the New World in 1528, he told King Charles I of the vast material riches that were found in abundance on Peru’s shores.
He petitioned for permission to conquer the new lands in the name of the crown, and was granted governorship over a vast amount of territory as long as he succeeded in conquering it.
Hungry to get their hands on Incan gold, some 168 Spaniards joined him on the conquest.
In the first battle, the Incans lost 2,000 men while the Spanish lost only 5.
In subsequent battles against the Spaniards, Incan troops were massacred in horrific numbers due in large part to Spain’s technological superiority.
(It also didn’t hurt that the Incan empire was undergoing a civil war at the time.)
The Spaniards would go on to conquer the rest of Incan lands over the next 40 years, which included parts of modern day Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
And over the next few centuries the Spanish empire would grow to encompass a significant portion of the Americas, some parts of Africa and the East Indies.
Spain was, in fact, the greatest power in Europe during a significant chunk of the renaissance, and she had her overseas dominions to prove it.
How times have changed. Today Spain is in financial straits, and most of her former colonies are in far better economic shape.
And as the gloomy economic landscape in Europe has dried up opportunities for young Spaniards, many have started to look to South America to start new careers.
Between 2008 and 2012 an estimated 700,000 Spaniards have left home in search of greener pastures, choosing to go to places like Colombia, Peru, and Chile.
Unencumbered by a language barrier and without much culture shock, they’re finding that they’re able to rise up the career ladder much more quickly than they could back home.
The shortage of skilled labor and advanced training in these countries means that foreigners are able to obtain higher paying jobs than they could back home.
Some recent college grads find themselves occupying senior level positions after just a few years because there is no one else around qualified for the job.
Even folks who are not with a large corporation or hold an advanced technical degree still have valuable skills.
Just by virtue of being a consumer in the West, for example, you know much more about proper customer service than people in countries that aren’t constantly exposed to such high standards.
I see the same situation in dozens of countries all over the world as I travel. There are many places where local talent and skills simply aren’t catching up fast enough with economic growth.
They are hungry for skilled labor and the entrepreneurially-minded.
This bespeaks a greater trend of our times: some of the best opportunities are abroad. And in uncertain times, you have to carve an independent path to achieve success.
I was always told growing up that if I studied hard and worked my way up the corporate food chain that I’d become successful. Did they tell you that lie too?
That entire premise is fundamentally broken.
But the good news is that it’s never been easier to venture abroad in search of some of the most enticing opportunities out there.
And the transition is not nearly as treacherous as it might seem.
Our ancestors spent months on a boat with a good chance of never coming back. Today we can hop on an airplane and wake up on the other side of the planet.
We can communicate with friends and family with a mouse click. And we can even meet people and conduct research before we arrive.
All the tools and technology exist to make the transition abroad extremely smooth.
It just takes independence of mind to break out of the current mold and embrace the tremendous opportunity you can find overseas.
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completely true. i loved a student exchange student in high school. marta, from spain. her father was a tobacco plantation owner. she left spain with her husband recently for this specific reason.
all hail george soros, the open border society, and the evil of the 5000 year old luciferian conspiracy (fact)
Oh, you definitely tapped that, didn't you?
So, you're kinda horny, aren't you? Kinda dangerous coming from a nail gun. There is a particular theme I am picking up on in some of your posts. ;-)
Yeah, I'm in a sort of weird mood tonight. But if you go around posting up Tammy Wynette lyrics in your posts, you gotta expect somebody who recognizes that sort of sentiment to notice and appreciate it.
I was using Tammy to abuse the guy who was sucking Barack's Obama on that thread, if you know what I mean. So I'm not sure I should get the credit for that. But I do stand by my man. And even when I don't seem to be (ie I'm letting him know he is hurting himself or something to that effect) I am. I am a female, but chances are too old for your tastes. But who isn't going to smile at a marriage proposal? Or even an indecent one! It's all pixels and no one gets hurt. No one even gets an eye put out!
Yeah, I know. I know where you were going in that post. That's the thing about the internet- I can only judge you by what you post. And you got me with that one.
Maybe you're a little older than me chronologically (or maybe not- late 40s on my end), but I got some hard miles on me dating from back hen I was younger and I don't worry about little things like age.
I'm glad I could give you a smile. You deserved it.
They looked for work abroad. They found it and realized they have to work like a dog. But you forgot where they went back to Spain and decided to chill out in a shitty job, because at the end of the day they enjoy their life, wine, weather, and relaxed lifestyle.
I know more than a few spaniards who left, but realized a life in spain without a great job is better than hustling in some country whose cultural icon is Kim Kardashian.
~"This bespeaks a greater trend of our times: some of the best opportunities are abroad."~
Kinda rough on the señoritas, ain't ya', Simon? /sarc
Stand by your man Tammy turned out to be a lesbian. Is there anything real left in this world?
Compared to 500,000 people that have left tiny Latvia, Spain is doing quite well.
Hail to Globalism!!!
Since they speak Spanish, they should have no problem riding the "amnesty" wave.
Hah.
Some folks got some strange
You know, eventually people are going to run out of places to go to get away from the horseshit.
Oh TPTB are gonna eat themselves in the end.
That's the thing- nobody knows where the balance starts to assert itself. There are no "new lands" to move to unless you count Antarctica, and nobody's moving there anytime soon unless Al Gore was massively understating things. Traveling to distant worlds by spaceship is about a bezillion years from being realistic. We're GOING to have to figure it out here on this little rock one way or another.
Is there a massive dying-off event? Nuclear war? Devolution? An asteroid hit? Or the most ridiculous outcome of all- a gradual balance slowly arising leading to a roughly sustainable world population?
Nobody freaking knows. Nobody's got a clue.
This obviously was not written with the middle aged, white, American male in mind......
Simon is talking his book. "Subscribe to my service and learn how to spread your money around the planet safely and go anywhere safely when you chose to on your terms...yada."
Where it can be expropriated anytime you're not looking. Or WTF, even you get arrested because you're figured to be some globalist rich fuck and you give them all your money or start losing body pieces.
Having traveled extensively and lived a long time as an expat, I do not buy his Full Montey
Are the Spaniards going through a Paella famine?
discover new land and write democratic constitution for no one to respect and establish Federal Reserve to begin with ..
further instruction to follow
Young people have no clue how to do this. I did it 25 years ago and banked a fortune. I have a unique skill set and was willing to travel to far off lands. I made enough in just a few years to be able to change careers and live where I wanted to live.
I've made it a point to teach my kids and others about working in foreign countries to prepare them for the future. The US will not be able to sustain borrowing $1 trillion extra per year. The end of the US as we know it is baked in the cake. We're 20 years pass the point of no return.
The millennial's today are fucked. Most are helpless to see what's coming and very, very few will be able to get out of the way of the train that's going to hit them in the face. They have no capital and zigged (went to college) when they should have zagged (focused on finding a career that is undesirable to most and/or high barrier for entry). Why the fuck young people go to college and major in liberal arts or business is beyond me. That's no longer the road to success.
That. Exactly that.
I graduated from college 20-something years ago and it barely made any sense even then. Today, the "usual path" is nothing but lies whispered in young people's ears that lead to a lifetime of debt slavery.
Gotta keep the college industrial complex going. University executives and tenured social science profs pushing feminist studies and political correctness...and...if you are not "correct" enough and in the peoples glorius democrat republic of Kalifornia...we get you with "yes means yes", especially if you are sporting a set of nuts. The student radicals of the sixties and seventies won and are safely ensconced in universities along with the MSM. I live in a university town and many of the students now believe that the next dem candidate will offer to jubilee the student debt.
I resent people that blame their own young. That's the mark of a loser who takes no responsibility for their own actions (typical of modern western culture). Who TF raised them in the first place? It's as if they somehow manifested out of nothing and we can accuse them for our shortcomings.
I'm teaching my young...and I'm not your daddy. If your parents fell into stupid and guided you down the (well worn) path of "go to college, you'll make more money!" theme, then it's now up to you to make life happen.
I didn't mention that my parents didn't encourage nor discourage ANY action after I finished college. They said you're on your own, come VISIT anytime. I was told by my tough loving mother that moving back home was not an option- EVER. I'll never understand why parents of millenials let their kids move back in. It hurts the child far, far more than it would ever help. It's the underlying part of our enabler society. Welfare is a long term addictive medicine for a short term illiness. Like taking heroin for a cold.
Simon Black should change his blog from Sovereign Man to Running Man. A life in exile, a life on the lam. What are you always running from, bro. The answer lies within....
2deep4me
I SOOO agree. It's almost funny reading these posts. But a guy has to advertise...
No where to run to baybay, no where to hide..
Nice to see you.
Particularly in the Electronic Era. If somebody wants to find you, follow you, gain access to every fucking piece of your life, leave an electronic trail for absolutely any major snooping power to decide that You Are The Man of Interest at the Moment and Vamoose.
You and your wealth disappears.
Permanently.
Quietly
Never to be seen or heard form again
And nobody will ever miss you, because you will be expunged, redacted from History, itself.
Slight Flaw in Simon's Paradigm
@MsC
:D Nice to see you, too. I don't post as much because my work schedule is crazy. I read stuff like the original Tylers are gone...at least we have each other. Hope things are good in the Carolinas and God bless.
My impression is that SB is a fairly young guy, and in any event I wouldn't turn to the man for Deep Thoughts and Answers.
However, Mr. Black is among the more reasonable purveyors of the "get out of America" spiel, and for many there is good reason to take his views seriously. For the nuts and bolts of building a career outside the US of A, he's a pretty good source.
FWIW, I got out of America long ago, during the reign of America's Marcus Aurelius, the Last Good President.
So what was Andrew Jackson really like anyway? & what's the secret to living 175 years?
Of course they wouldn't want to come to a xenophobic place like America. You have to be white and love guns more than people to be welcomed here.
Spaniards are white.
Speak the language
"English, motherfucker..."
Americans aren't xenophobic. In America it all boils down to who you are:
WHITE CONSERVATIVE: afraid of democrats & CIA sponsored terrorists
WHITE LIBERAL: afraid of bible thumpers, NASCAR, [whom they consider 'domestic' terrorists], & war [when the GOP has the White House]
BLACK: afraid of whitey
BLACK GHETTO: afraid of Mexicans & the Cops
COPS: afraid of closed donut shops
MEXICANS: Afraid of the INS
CHINESE AMERICANS: afraid of Americans
JEWS: afraid of goy & broken printing presses
LESBIANS: afraid of balls
HOMOSEXUAL MALES: afraid of Microsoft
TEENAGE GIRLS: afraid of other teenage girls, and last generation smart phones
TEENAGE BOYS: afraid of Mom [finding the porn stash on the PC]
WASHINGTON DC: afraid of pitchforks, Putin, & independent auditors
WALL ST BANKERS: afraid of ornery French Maitre'D's, Ukrainian pimps, Gold Medal Flour, & nailguns
ZHERS: afraid of fiat & boating trips
We spaniards are white. And, while in urban areas guns are really scarce, in rural areas is pretty common. And most people have some kind of rural connection...
Starkiller, you are probably wasting your time
remember, this comment section is full of people that come to pamper their prejudices, and that thing about all "Latins" being that kind of Mexicans or South Americans that come to the US in search of work
so you are supposed to be quite dark and have no clue what a gun is, and of course have no connection either to urban nor rural life, or for sure not both
in the article there is this nugget of truth: "They are hungry for skilled labor and the entrepreneurially-minded."
yes, for young Spaniards, South America is a new land of opportunity because they are white, speak "motherland" Spanish, have usually an excellent education, and - I know, this is not politically correct - can climb up the socio-economic ladder very fast
in many ways Spain is "reconnecting" to it's former colonies. I see it in banking, in industry, in commerce and now in this fresh mingling. as a reminder, it was the US that put lots of effort to keep Spain out of it's "backyard" with it's Monroe Doctrine, right after the Spanish-American War
funny thing, this search for the "entrepreneurially-minded". it's real, and yet often neglected by economists, the fact that entrepreneurship is scarce, very scarce
sure, South Americans still save mostly in USD and often bank abroad in Florida. but I see some changes coming, in the next decades, also thanks to this new wave
further, not long ago if you emigrated, you left your old life forever. nowadays, it might only be part of your life, and I expect quite a few of those Spaniards will come back, and enrich Spain with their Latin America experiences and connections
it's not that long ago that Spain reopened itself to the world after Franco's semi-isolation
True.
We spaniards have been lately wasting many opportunities to build a market and better social and economic relationships with south america thinking that Europe was the train to take.
Common languaje and the fact that places like Chile are now even more developed than Spain (in many ways) make the "Latin-Iberian" zone be a space worth to think about.
Time to:
1- Stop looking everytime what the anglosaxons do (copy good things and ignore the rest. Period.)
2- Stop thinking of Latin America as the "poors", or the "less capable". They are (must be) languaje, social and market partners. Of course, more in a" Chile way" than in a "Venezuela way".
Summary: stop paying attention to France and dreaming about a French revolution a la española. Re-take "conversaciones" with Chile, Méjico, Portugal... and try to play a useful role for places like Argentina and Venezuela to find ther way back to prosperity and freedom.
Many great countries and people in South America. Time to build something good and useful with Mediterranean flavor. This time by means of markets, not guns.
I'll keep dreaming...
South America is the land of opportunity not only for young Spaniards but also for a growing number of North Americans, Australians and non-Spanish Europeans. Many of them retirees but also young and middle-aged professionals.
I was always told, back in the YUK, that "Wogs begin at Calais".....
You know, pretty soon the youth will run out of places to run to for a future. The bankers and governments have laid waste to many economies, I fear that they will not stop until every nation is part of a banker empire of ruin. Those who refuse the Bankers and the Dollar hegemony soon find bombers and soldiers appearing to oust their governments and install more empire and austerity and banker freindly rulers. I don't expect in another 20 years that youth will have nations that can take them in and offer economic opportunites, not unless some things change seriously.
usd/jpy is about 7 pips from 120. I'd be worrried about current events.
It's going to be very expensive to punch that barrier. I can't wait to see where the covering starts.
After a recent trip around asia my wife came home with a bunch of yen which she wanted to keep for the next trip. I got rid of it at around 95 yen to the dollar and never looked back. After it punches through 120 the mainlanders, Koreans and Taiwanese are going to get hysterical. Can anyone say competetive currency devaluations?
If they're liberal art students looking for me to support them, go somewhere else you fuckin parasites.
Meanwhile, Sweden is being flooded with young people NOT seeking work. WTF is up with Sweden? I'm no fan of right-wingers, but it's not right-wing to defend your borders and your citizenry and your tax base against parasites looking for a free ride. If I lose my job, I'm going to Sweden, ask for "asylum" from the crazy-ass US cops and go on their fscking dole.
Dude. Just drive across the Mexican border, walk back across with no ID and demand amnesty here and you'll get enrolled automatically in every single last Bammy program, for free. Plus spending cash. (note the Sessions article on Breitbart)
What have you to do in return?
Register to vote Democratic.
Doesn't mean you ever even have to go to the polls.
Sign here and Bingo!
Knuckles:Dude. Just drive across the Mexican border, walk back across with no ID and demand amnesty here and you'll get enrolled automatically in every single last Bammy program, for free. Plus spending cash. (note the Sessions article on Breitbart)
...that shit doesn't really work (if you're white). I remember a few years back I got bit by a brown recluse spider (fuck I fucking hate spiders, they creep me out, eight fucking eyeballz, who the fuck needs eight fucking eyeballz).....anyway, my foot ballooned up and sprung a leak with that flesh eating shit...so I went to the hospital and not having health insurance I told them I was an undocumented worker, my name was Juan Valdez and I was really from Colombia....and I'm up here looking for work growing coffee beans.
Nope,
Didn't work,
They're having none of that shit. I tried with my best Spanglish accent. Not gonna fly.
Huh, you white, you pay.
So I'm looking at the 10 year usdx chart. First thing I notice is the $usd has been in an uptrend for 3 and 2/3rds years.
What really stands out is the monthly chart. In the last 10 years the $usd has NEVER risen for more than 5 months.
The usdx is in it's 6th month of consecutive rises, for the first time in 10years.
Here's the chart
Time dilatation as the Annanuki near.
I shit you not.
Good reason as any other
Even the Annanuki wouldn't be so blantant with their manipulations.
I believe the US dollar is up because most everything else is down. The least ugly girl in the whorehouse. It's going to get ugly in asia. Maybe I can get a new lexus for 15,000 US soon?
Some really good deals on real estate over there in Spain though.
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because they kicked out the Jews and Arabs who left their debts behind and took their wealth with them (setting up diamond industry in Antwerp and Amsterdam), then they squandered the gold and silver they stole by building big cathedrals and palaces. They spent a lot of money on fighting religious wars throughout all of Europe and since they didn't have a big artisan class they had to buy things from the vary countries they were at war with. At premium prices of course. Corruption and kickbacks also did them in. That model was replicated in South America whose native population they massacred and put into slavery.
Four centuries later a lot has has changed. What didn't change was that Spain overspent and that there is a lot of corruption.
Revise your history, the Spanish empire started precisely in 1492, the year the Jews and Arabs were kicked out.
fact. though it's the year of the discovery of the Americas, too. and two years later, in 1494, the Treaty_of_Tordesillas divided the whole world in a Portuguese and a Spanish Sphere of Influence
Didn't help to have inbred, mentally retarded and gay royalty, either.
So this is why my ZH ads have changed to "Meet European Singles" from the purely Russian offerings on tap before.
There is a inertia to population movements.
As recently as 2010 net inward migration was a cool 2 million souls.
Speaking from Irish experience when job growth stops these 20 or 30 some things forming a huge bulk of the working population displace school leavers from entering the workplace.
Some folks got exported.
If you have a modest income and large family in Spain its best to move back into the desereted villages of Spain.
Aragon is especially attractive.
However the Spanish equate this with backwardness.
Having been exposed to modernism at a much later time then the French on the other side of the mountain.
The French have got over this now
5 years ago many Colombians went to Spain for jobs....now Spaniards are coming to Colombia...so far I have not met one yet....
Good short term solution. Shitty long term, because Bankers & IMF are everywhere (including debt and fiat money), plus it will become ugly once these locals find out that they are being dumped for some white European that came to steal their jobs.
Nope. Gonna stay here in my backwather, debt-ridden South Europe and ride this out. And Stockpile on Ammunition. That is my whole survival plan for the future. My Glock 29 and Ammunition. What else?