05 Jan 2013 10:24 AM:

 I have lived here for almost 9 years and I run a business with my Spanish business partner. We both pay almost 300 a month for autonomo and it is crippling us, as well as 100 a month for the gestor to do paperwork, then not to mention normal overheads.

Although I speak reasonable Spanish, anything official has to be done by my partner because nobody here has a basic command of English. ie Telefonica, Endesa, local authorities etc

Having just spent 3 weeks in Oman in the middle east, they leave Spain standing on the spot as far as integration goes.

Every road sign is in Arabic and English. Everybody who works with the general public speak an excellent level of English.

I went there because my Son is in the military and working for the Sultan there, he and his Wife had my first Grandchild, hence my visit.

During my visit my Son had issues with their telephone and Internet connection, which was sorted on the Islamic sabbath.......unbelievable!

Shops are open 7 days a week (Spain is losing huge ammounts of income and job creation by closing on Sundays)

Another thing which amazed me is that many foreign companies like Marks & Spencers, Next, Matalan, and even the French supermarket Carrefour are all over the place there.............and yet Oman has a total population of 2.7 million people, but they must be doing something right.

Rajoy should be asking himself why these companies dont want to invest in Spain, which has a huge ex-pat community who will spend their money here if they get the opportunity, instead of buying rubbish from the Chinese bazaars which seem to be cropping up all over the place.

Keep the money in Europe, then maybe, just maybe, we will see a way out of this recession

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