[floxy]

Is that because:

A.) There is significant overlap between Brexiteers and those with enough extra wealth to afford vacation / second homes in Spain. Is there any way to quantify this? I would have thought that those with a nationalistic bent wouldn't be keen to own homes in foreign lands. Plus I had the impression that the Remainers were more towards the urban, wealthy, citizen-of-the-world types who would at first blush seem more likely to buy houses elsewhere.

B.) The Brexiteers were hoping that the Remainers would all move away, so they don't have to deal with them anymore?

C.) The Brexiteers want to colonize Spain?

D.) Brexiteers wish they would have thought of the idea punitive taxes on foreigners first?

E.) Other?

[johannes1234321]

There is a notable amount of "expats" who permanently moved to Spain under freedom of movement, then voted for Brexit and then were angry that Spain/EU started to treat them as foreigners.

How many hundred that are I don't know, but they made "fun" news stories during those times.

[delroth]

Those expats are residents though, and thus wouldn't be impacted by the proposal being discussed in the linked article.

[floxy]

>How many hundred that are I don't know, but they made "fun" news stories during those times.

Seems like every human story then. The few-and-far-between exceptions get magnified by 100-1000 times their actual significance by people on the other side.