• cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    24 days ago

    Spain spent the last few decades building out infrastructure to the point that they now have excellent infrastructure themselves

    Not a lot of people know this, but i think Spain probably has better infrastructure than Germany at this point. Certainly they have way more high speed rail. And i seriously doubt it runs as poorly as the German rail system.

    • Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      24 days ago

      Well, they’ve recently privatized some of the services, followed by the inevitable train crash, but yeah.

      Another thing they do incredibly well is broadband. Basically every town here has had Gbps fibre optic for like a decade at this point.

      The sad thing is, that many Spanish people don’t recognize these achievements — they assume that Germany or the UK must be better 🤷

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        8·
        24 days ago

        Another thing they do incredibly well is broadband. Basically every town here has had Gbps fibre optic for like a decade at this point.

        So jealous. German internet infrastructure at this point is notorious for probably being among the absolute worst in Europe. Expensive, slow as shit and the coverage is horrible if you’re not in a city. Every time i go to Romania i get so angry at how much faster and cheaper the internet is there.

        The sad thing is, that many Spanish people don’t recognize these achievements — they assume that Germany or the UK must be better.

        Internalized inferiority complexes are awful. I see this same mentality all the time in Eastern Europe.