What is the difference in cultures between Italy and Spain?
I’ve actually lived in both countries. Although I love Spain, I have bought a hoiuse in Italy and will go there to live permanently next year. The reasons I chose Italy rather than Spain are : 1. Most of Spain is now very built up, even areas which when I lived there were not such as the north coast and the south west coast. 2. Spain has many more British people living there than Italy (although Italy’s numbers are growing) and I want to live in a different culture, not the UK in the sun. 3. Spanish people are lovely but many of them became very disillusioned with people from other countries, especially the UK and USA, who always seemed to want something for nothing. So Spanish people got their own back by starting the charge much more for more or less everything, and began to try to rip people off wherever they could. I don’t blame them for doing that but it wasn’t a nice atmosphere to live in. 4. Italian people are almost always hugely hospitable, kind, generous and not as cynical as
