60k euro per year in a city like Barcelona or Madrid does not make you wealthy. Not remotely. And in the other cities rent might be better, but jobs are a lot harder to find too.
60k euro gives you 33k after tax (2800 euro per month), and everything you do with that is taxed at minimum another 25% (that's the VAT)
The numbers are simply wrong. The VAT is 21% tops and in the highest taxed region the 60K are effectively taxed at 32%.
And you miss the point that wealth is not determined by how much you earn, but how much you have.
Various super rich are nominally earning one dollar/euro.
I know doctors that have trouble finding a flat and others that complain about being classified as big renter because they only have six flats. The discriminator is not the income. (When we talk about the Ultra-Rich).
> And you miss the point that wealth is not determined by how much you earn, but how much you have.
That IS my point. Earning is how you become wealthy. That is heavily taxed, because it's easy for the government to do. These taxes prevent anyone becoming wealthy.
They are, however, protecting people that already are wealthy. Cross the threshold where you make more from owning stuff than from income and Spanish taxes look a whole lot better, because you can determine yourself how much income you have. In other words: you only pay tax on the income you actually use for living. Any income used for wealth-building is not taxed (acquiring the actual assets still is but 20% in the worst case. Also investment gains are not taxed, if you structure things right). Cross the next threshold: where you wealth not only pays for living but actually lets you acquire more assets and it's even better. For that ("reinvestment") you pay ZERO percent taxes on the money used to grow your assets.
The very wealthy get richer in Spain. You just can never join them.
I strongly fully agree. More advice from rehashing an old comment by myself.
The first week is brutal! The baby sleep at random times, and you barely sleep. The good part is that the first week only is a week long. Then the difficulty gets automatically reduced to hard.
Protip 1: If the baby has gas, s/he will have strong stomachache. Some massage help. Ask the nurses at the hospital for instructions. It's like magic.
Protip 2: Try to sleep as much as possible. Yes, I know it's not that easy.
Then you have the Pyrenees between the Iberian peninsula and France. Aside from being mountainous, also fairly low population density, and rather poorer regions to the point that you'll find abandoned villages.
So, the only sensible connections are along the Mediterranean (Catalonia) or the Atlantic coast (Basque Country).
Another reason is that Spain has high-speed rails only since the nineties.
IRC, just in the recent years, there was a high-speed connection built to the Basque Country (from Madrid). From the Basque Country you can go to France with a light rail.
So, the only high-speed connection is along the Mediterranean.
In a way, it's a center/periphery problem.
France is prioritising connections from/to Paris, Spain from/to Madrid.
Unless either side improves the network at their side of the border, it also makes limited sense to improve yours.
I create a malicious chart or compromise one you use (with symlink to an arbitrary file and code).
You download charts either as a tarball from a helm repo or oci registry with helm and helm will create the files and links with your permissions, and send me whatever I wanted to extract from your system.
Yes, you should check things you download from the internet.
But also, that is not how a chart is supposed to work.
No, you are high earner. It puts you squarely in the top 10%.
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