Local cultural snippet #1: Barça (pronounced "Barsa") is the football team. The city is either "BCN" or "Barna".

Spain is a great place to live -- if you have a foreign salary/income. And it's larger and a lot more diverse than it looks, geographically.

Short of the big American outdoors, with infinite prairies and woodlands and deserts, you can pick and choose whatever climate you prefer. You have wet cool regions, parched sun-burnt ones, oceanside, continent, mountains, plains...