[dancingspider]

It's quite surprising for me there is such an acute Labour/skills shortage in that particular sector, and that there are so many interviews and visa sponsorships offered/available.

 

[toniom]

On paper coastal Galicia like Vigo and A Coruna have the mildest climates in continental Spain. Mild winters and cool summers.

 

[Rusty Nail]

It is going to be hot again in southern Spain.

 

[1kaipa]

I am quite surprised that construction companies (most of which in Spain are nationally based and don't even have an international mobility expert in their HR department) are prepred to sponsor work permits and visas.

I wonder how much of this is great at first until they realise what's involved.

This is what seems to happen with UK employers saying "yeah sure" when employees want to work remotely from Spain, until they see what that actually implies!

In any case, even if only 50% of the offers are later made firm when reality hits, that's still great news for expats from non-EU countries.

One of the major issues for Spain at the moment regarding the housing crisis is a lack of workers in the construction area. So yes they are going to need to bring in foreign workers - however I believe that south America is the main recruiting ground

 

[Adrian McManus]

Ah, I'm on the top floor of a building and I guess the concrete gets blasted with the heat during the day and retains the heat at night.

There are weeks on end when the temp doesn't drop below 30C at night. I have fans going 24/7 to keep the air circulating, which helps a lot.

I try to avoid using air con ar night, as much as possible. The other solution is of course leaving Spain during the summer months, which I've managed to do in recent years.

The miserable, unpredictable, wet and windy, damp British Climate is preferable to the Spanish incessant summer heat, and getting baked alive for months on end.

One doesn’t really have to leave Spain. Just decamp to the Northern Atlantic/Cantabrian coast a
or mountains where it’s fine. Not all of Spain is a frying pan in the summer months. In fact in Galicia, I’ve experienced summers similiar to the Cambridgeshire ones when I was I kid, it just gets light and dark a bit later.

 

[Overandout]

One of the major issues for Spain at the moment regarding the housing crisis is a lack of workers in the construction area. So yes they are going to need to bring in foreign workers - however I believe that south America is the main recruiting ground

Shortages in the construction industry in Spain are usually the trades, these are the professions usually filled by immigration, not the "dirección de obra". Spain has a surplus of university educated professionals who could fill "jefe de obra" positions.