05 Feb 2012 11:50:I have just come back to France from actually selling a house in North Murcia after five years and dropping the price fifty percent which says it all. After an absense of five years the infra road structure on major routes is very good, take the AP36 from Albacette to Madrid, not a soul on it it. That is because of the toll charges which have now doubled . Fuel prices to are now greater than in France. I stayed at Mavi Hotel,la Cabrera on the A1 north of Madrid. Again there price has gone up from 30 to 50 euro for a night and this is not a tourist hotel. I was in Mula where the problems of all those empty properties from the boom time has been solved by agents letting to Romanians and Ecuadorians. Outside of these roads that take you the length of Spain, the buildings now just seem run down rather romantic. there are no longer masses of mopeds buzzing around as there is no work and the police are clamping down on all the unregistered and uninsured bikes. One aspect that hadn't changed was that all the municipal taxes for selling had to be paid in cash. I suppose that sums up the way some things have changed and others are still the same.
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