One of my church friends is a lady from New York who married a Spaniard and lived in Spain from 1960 to 2000. Her husband was a surgeon and she was a highly-regarded classical musician. They lost everything when the Socialists took power. One of her sons still lives in Spain, only because they can’t sell their estate there and they can’t bear to abandon it.
Spain was losing population even in the mid-20th century. My friend has five children, and that was an enormous family for well-off Spaniards. She jokes that she drove the first minivan in Spain!
“She jokes that she drove the first minivan in Spain!”
That’s funny. I know a couple from Spain (in their early seventies); he was one of ten, and she was one of eight. They had three children together.