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I was in benidorm for it. No fires are allowed on beaches. Was brilliant. People used the bins provided. Next morning, you wouldn't have known what happened the night before .

Brits and other expats have saved some villages in France by investing in property and boosting the population, I wonder if some publicity and encouragement could be enacted to do the same in Spain's declining areas?.

Don't think that type of rubbish situation could have happened where I grew up, in Huntington Beach, California. 1st doubt even troublemakers would do this, and if so, the government wouldn't have to intervene, the public would have come out and cleaned up the mess. What lowlifes would do that?

Stopping holiday lets is not going to solve the housing crisis here.

Shame about the lad losing his life, how sad. Regarding this attack on home owners…if I can’t do air bnb then I’ll leave my place empty before taking responsibility for spains inability to build its own people houses.

also this is for stu, you would love learning political history of Spain. the documents only exist in Spanish. but look up the black agenda against Spain and then look at the masonic war of Spain. Spain at one point tried to remove the British Freemasons but lost. so many British have an opinion because they are freemason and telling you their plans. the British have to have puppet royals and politicians to keep Spain in order so they never establish the Spanish empire again. this is evident when you read Spanish history books and then British history book. anyways i wish to travel one day so i wont say any more.

I love that beach in Malaga. How selfish they are not taking care of the beaches!

Unfortunately this has not got any better in the nearly 20 years I've lived here. From throwing their rubbish on the floors in bars and out of car windows. Kids aren't chastised by parents so they grow up thinking it's fine. Someone else's problem. they are employed to pick up after me.

lucky you guys are in spain. ive tried saving to get over there but with the current cost of living i am stuck in Australia. if anyone reads this comment all i ask if you ever go past the town of Iraneta, can you plant a tree for me? I am Indigenous to the region of Navara, my soul, and heart are calling for Spain but i am never to be blessed with the opportunity to return to my ancestral homelands nor will i walk them as my indigenous birth right. i come from the wild man and am one of the last of my kind. please take care of the land and rivers, feed the birds and animals.

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This happens everywhere for one reason or other. Wealthy ppl in California USA buy up the best houses in the most spectacular oceanside views. Poor ppl are pushed out, and crime goes up. This is always going on around the world. Even if you build "more housing" in spain other factors need to be considered like distance to food stores and hospitals. Complicated. Hopefully, the less fortunate finds support. Life is not fair!

Need to have respect for nature and a civic duty. Aren't young people worried about the environment? Guess they just want to complain about it online but do nothing personally.

Thank you for the interesting update, Stuart. It is shocking to hear about the man who lost his life. Very sad!! What kind of society do we live in.. I can't believe how people trash the beach or anywhere come to think of it. It's awful. Ignorant people, there are many!!

Terrible and sad regarding the murder of the young man in Barcelona. Sadly such crimes occur everywhere. I live in Ballarat, population of @ 122000. We have had three women murdered in the first four months of this year! The alleged perpetrator of one refuses to tell police where the body is and her family's grief is amplified. My daughter is a senior solicitor and State prosecutor of the worst crimes imaginable, and the workload is unrelenting! And the additional sad truth is that the vast majority of serious crimes are perpetrated by males in every country.

Hi stu and guests. Low rent and accommodations in towns outside the cities, add bus routes! Bus driver jobs created, workers can live somewhere and travel to jobs in the cities. Am i missing something here or is this solution too simple?

Malaga needs to do the same , short term tourist rentals need to disappear in the U.K. as well London has been destroyed

Nothing new about the interior of Spain emptying. I've commented about it for years on this channel. The demographic collapse in Spain is extremely serious. Firstly, I've travelled to inland Castile Leon , La Mancha, Extremadura (let's not forget swathes of Andalucia, Galicia, Asturias, Murcia), and I've been to these small towns, virtually empty villages and hamlets. You can drive for miles and miles before you come across a tiny place with a few old blokes outside a bar. Many of these places don't even have a bar, school, cash point, bus stop. I've been to places so empty you wont find 50 people and they're all getting old. There are no jobs or opportunities. Young people cannot exist in these places unless they belong to a farming family and the children don't want to work in farming any more unless it's very profitable. The only future they have is that demand for the city is driving up property costs so more and more are choosing to live in affordable, out of town, places and commute just as Italians have for decades. Traditionally it's not very Spanish but needs must. Work is in cities but property and rental prices are simply unaffordable.

Nice looking beach. The trash left after the parties is beyond horrible. Total lack of regard for the planet, environment and fellow humans. Education is needed.

Can I just make the point that the disgraceful behaviour of the people on those beaches has very little to do with foreigners or tourists and everything to do with local Spaniards who, as you say Stuart, have no understanding of civic behaviour. I see it all over Andalucia. People just dump their trash wherever they like without the slightest consideration for anyone else. It's just me, me, me. My local reservoir is down to 10% capacity and it's been getting lower and lower every year for a long time. Yet the people in my village have no intention of moderating their water consumption. I've talked to them. "If it runs out they'll send it from the North." The whole place is like a tinderbox but that won't stop families going to the countryside and lighting fires for their barbecues even though it's been banned. They couldn't care less. They dump trash on beaches because someone else will clean it up. I know a lot of great Spaniards that love nature and are very civic minded but, boy, are they up against it in Andalucia. By the way, that second picture is Malaga. You can see it on the uniforms.

... and they don't allow dogs on the beaches? My dogs are way more civilized than all these nasty polluters, not pigs, because pigs do not pollute at all.

It's the young who leave their mess here too, they are of the mind someone else will clean it up ! Makes me livid , everytime I go for a walk I take a bag with me , and always fill it , disgusting !

The beaches look disgusting, but sadly, a little bit like a park in the UK after a hot weekend. Usually I find the main public beaches in Spain spotless. The sea in a cove outside Sitges last year though was full of plastic bags. Really gross.

en el quinto pino! surely!! I would love to inhabit the farmhouse I learned Spanish in, Renedo de Valdavia. Palencia is surely one of these places

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...agree about the trash (rubbish) on the beach*. I've never seen it that bad here, however there are usually clubs or groups (here) that meet on the beach the day after a holiday to pick up what didn't make it to the bin. Also, we can't have fires in the sand; fires have to be kept in purpose made, concrete fire pits (for obvious safety reasons). Thank you for today's video. *there's a music festival in the desert called Coachella (about 3 hrs drive from San Diego) that's very piggy.

Wow!! They should suspend the celebrations from now on ! They don’t deserve anything!

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Thanks, Stu! Some of those older places look to be in pretty good shape from the outside. But, yeah, these days, very few would want to purchase, refurbish, buy furniture (most of which will never be used), property taxes, electricity, etc., etc. It does look like a nice small town - most likely cooler in July/August for this Canadian compared to how it is here in Valencia (la Ciudad).

Stuart,How about the idea of scraping the E.U and Socialism all together.?Replace it with Freedom and capitalism!While it is true Free Market and general economy goes up and down but many more people benifit overall .Socialisim doesnt go up and down ,stays stagnic and always stinks!!!!

Stuart, as a very enlighten and intellectual school teacher as yourself,id be interested to hear what is it about socialism that you dont like🤔

Cowardly politicians hitting the little people trying to make a few Euros, as always. Dealing with the short-term effect, and never the long-term root cause. There was a recent article on Idealista News that Spain needs to build 1,000,000 (!!!!) homes to catch up based on historical housing needs and population growth. There is a very, very real housing shortage in Spain, and tourism and wealthy immigrants is certainly making it worse. But it isn't the *cause*. Build more houses, and let people manage their properties how they see fit - tourist beds, taxes etc. good for everyone, win-win. Politicians in Spain, as in so many other countries, don't have the courage to acknowledge the very real need to simply build more homes, year on year. And so the problem will get worse ... until it reaches boiling point on the streets ... not long now, I guess?

We went up to some of the white villages north of Malaga when we visited. It wasn’t the hottest time of the summer, but it was unbearably hot. Not pleasant, no breeze

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Yet again politicians trying to stop the free market with dogmatic proposals. Try building homes!

hmm, regarding these lack of property and rental problems, could they have been worse?? Can we say that we have found the only benefit of Brexit?? 🤣

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Spain has an awful amount of empty, half finished housing that seems to be owned by banks etc.

I've lived for 22 years on the Costa del Sol and have been a local councillor. One of the biggest challenges, as I see it, is that Spain wants more and more tourism but with little or no investment in Infrastructure. This would include social/affordable housing , measures to prevent erosion of the beaches a serious look at water supply and a halt to predatory building practices. The main motorway on the coast collapses during the summer whilst the most expensive toll road in Spain is practically empty. A car with a puncture can cause 10 km of tailbacks: not great if you are trying to get to work. The train from Málaga stops at Fuengirola and getting anywhere by public transport is a nightmare. Much of this comes down to Central government but local authorities do very little to address the big issues.

I agree , I was there in August 2023 and it was amazing. The vaca rubia cachena is some of the best beef I had in my life

This means that property rights means nothing!

An independent study found that in Barcelona, about 2.06% of all units are listed on Airbnb. This is higher than in New York (1.31%) and Los Angeles (0.86%), while it is very similar to Paris (2.09%). However, when Airbnb listings relative to the number of rented units are measured, the percentage for Barcelona rises to 6.84%. In 2015, the average long-term rental price in Barcelona was 11 Euros per night (735 Euros per month), while the average Airbnb price (short-term rental) was 71 Euro per night. Hence, a unit on Airbnb for 10 days a month would yield the same monthly income as a long-term rental. These numbers are significantly different that the Industry mouth-piece APARTUR's figures.

Stu.. Most of your videos show a green and pleasant Spain... So take everything the experts say with a pinch of salt.... Tony cuenca

The Spanish government should build more social housing, and shouldn't expect the private sector to pick-up the slack.

I thought the Mediterranean summers were supposed to be hot and dry. Perth's weather has always been compared to a Mediterranean type.

With no tourist there will be no jobs for people, so they won't have money to rent these apartments?

Guiris have pushed up real estate prices. Spain should ban foreign ownership of real estate in Spain. Ban all Air BNB too.

Americans go home and take those cheap Canadians with you! 😂

Why wait until 2028 to implement the new Airbnb laws? Just do it straight away!

If the Spanish government really wanted to end so much resentment towards tourism the only thing they have to do is build housing for workers and locals and rent them at a reasonable price, then the problem would go away.