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by nhnhhnl 1986 days ago
It's not, really, I've been living through most of Europe and Spain's quality of life is way above average, there's literally no homeless (except for people with mental health issues or foreigners) low/middle class people buy properties, there's development in every industry, etc.

Edit: Downvoter care to explain? Please check this [1] NUTS 2 official data, half of Spain is above half of Germany

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/GDP_per_...

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Maybe because those things don't directly have anything to do with country being corrupt, which was the question? There could be some indirect connection, but corruption and quality of life are not exactly the same things.
A corrupt enough country would not be able to protect people as Spain does.

Public services are paid with public money, if there is no money there are no services and as far as I know there is still public health and education and equal opportunitieas for (almost) everybody.

A lot of corruption there anyway.