It is all over the media: Spanish people are not happy about having so much immigration from Morocco. However, that landlord is a complete jerk, no doubt. With the political and social situation in all of Spain the way it is now, you should be a lot more careful and less trusting, particularly in Madrid.

Ask again in the next few years. Things are very volatile most everywhere (atm and for the foreseeable future), in case you haven’t noticed.

After 35 years of living abroad, I have just returned for the first time to the city of my birth.

The city has undergone changes, but I changed even more, having spent most of my life in foreign lands. It’s very weird. I now speak with an accent, which I hope to shed soon. Many of the familiar things are still here, but they don’t look the same. And many things and people I loved are gone.

A few relatives that I had here have moved to a remote part of the country, and all of my friends moved to other countries long time ago. I find myself here, with my spouse (whom I met and married abroad many moons ago), feeling like a foreigner in my own homeland.

Home was the place in which I grew up. Geographically, that place still exists, but it no longer feels like home.

Buy a return ticket a few hours before flying to Albania, you will have 24 hours to cancel the flight. Been there, done that.

Like "drop everything now and explain to me that you don’t belong here, you outsider "

Exactly!

I lived most of my life abroad, with a quarter of a century in the States, where people are obsessed with accents. I always found that question intrusive, even rude, and so goddam tiring - I equal it to “where is the baby due” that very pregnant women constantly get. So, I answer with “why do you ask?” Tit for tat.