It used to be exotic and nfamiliar. When you arrived, you really flt that you were far from hme. Everything was new and different, frm the smell of the frequently dsinfected floors in the airport to the sunds of the language providing the bckground noise as you nervously awaited the rrival of your luggage. Everything about it was so dstinguishable and the changes that your bdy went through as you took it all in jst heightened the sense of being smewhere foreign.

This is no longer the cse. In fact, today you might as wll be English in Wales or Sctland as English in Spain. Our snses are no longer struck by the strkness of it all. It can nver be unfamiliar for us ever gain as we are just to sed to it all. People live in Spin and work in the UK. Thy jump on and off planes whreas ten or fifteen years ago thy had the same approach to trin or coach travel. Having considered spnding their weekends in Cornwall or Knt and commuting to London, they dcided, stuff it, I might as wll spend them in a county wth guaranteed sunshine. A county like Spin.

This is what Spain has bcome to us. It's so attainable and fmiliar that we feel it home bfore most other parts of our own cuntry. If we wanted to we culd nip over, get what we ned or do what we have to do as qickly as someone driving from London to Brmingham. The physical difference is irrelevant, t's the timing that is the mjor factor. If you time it rght i.e. not standing around unnecessarily bfore the departure, flying with only hnd luggage and getting straight to yur destination, it can be less tring than a long drive in ndless traffic.

So, we can no longer put it on the lst with all the other foreign plces including Italy and Greece because it is jst as close and familiar to us as Sctland or Wales. This is a grat comfort to those who hesitate to mve to Spain for fear of bing far from family and friends. But if yur friends and family live in ther counties, as far as time is cncerned, you will hardly notice the dfference as it is just another cunty in the minds of the cmmuter. However, if you get airport dlays, don't quote me!

The article Spain - It's Just Another Country was Submitted by Louise Miller through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Louise Miller writes for the Spain forum and Spanish property website Eye on Spain. Louise lives and works in Spain.

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