It's a paradise for geo-arbitrager and retirees with higher pension. In recent times with all the hype that it has created among North Americans, it's only getting that much more expensive and unaffordable for locals.

I started my career in Spain and saw it going nowhere. So left for northern Europe as fast as I can. That's what lot of native young population does.

I live on the canary islands in a new building - modern dry walling has made leaps in sound isolation even though we do no thermal insulation here. Cant complain.