Spanish long term youth employment tops 60%

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I have a relative who is in the 'fortunate' position of having a property in Spain. He and his family used to live there but in recent times has had to come back to England to live more or less permanently. It would seem that his family felt a little bit insecure there. They have had to spend a small fortune on security on the property and those of their friends and neighbours who are still there visit the place regularly to 'keep an eye' on it. Every so often they have to go back to Spain for an extended period so that they can do maintenance etc and give the others a break from the security patrol so that they can visit their families etc in England.
OK so this might just sound as though they are well off and can afford all this. Reading between the lines I detect a note of considerable panic as they are unable to sell the place and the travel arrangements are considerably eating into savings that were originally allocated for other things. I suppose it is all relative ( if you will excuse the pun). The value of the Euro against the Pound will be exerting a lot of pressure in this situation and I would suspect that as you now get fewer Euro's to the Pound they are much worse off than they were a few years ago. The almost continuous threat of a possible burglary or the occurrence of squatters whilst they are not in residence must be quite galling. So they are dealing with their brown stuff hitting the blades moment and have bugged out to England. For their sake I hope they are not invaded - I am not aware of what the 'crime situation' is in Spain but it would seem that there is a great potential for an upward trend especially if the attitude towards the 'rich foreigners' deteriorates.