The newspaper El Pas published this Tuesday A letter to the editor in which harshly criticizes the city of Madrid. Not to mention the political class that has jurisdiction over the city, such as the mayor, José Luis Martínez Almeida, or the president of the Community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Under the title of This city is not for me, The letter denounces the precarious situation in which many Madrid citizens live: the high price of rent, the cost of leisure, the limited local offering and the disappearance of traditional shops make it difficult, as the text says, to love Madrid.
Loving Madrid It is becoming more and more difficult. After years of living in the center of the capital, the city expelled me when I decided it was time to invest my modest savings in buying a house on the outskirts, of course and stop paying the rent on my apartment that had become abusivethe letter begins.
Madrid, a hostile, exasperating place, full of cars and parks without shade
Today, from the perspective of the suburbs, Madrid seems like a place to me hostile, exasperating, full of cars and parks without shade, whose only leisure offer is offered by a franchise coffee shop where stopping to have a cortado makes you feel alien, he continues.
Another of the controversies addressed in the text is the transformation of shops, located on the ground floor of buildings, into tourist accommodation, the price of which is equivalent to luxury suites. According to the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS), Housing is the second biggest concern for Spaniards.
Nor are many of the small shops of artisans and merchants that I knew there, which have been subtly replaced by mini-apartments for tourist use that cost the price of luxury suites. I think about this when I walk through its streets and I think of the speeches of those politicians who brandish the word “Madrileans” as if we really mattered to them. Does anyone believe it?the letter ends.
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