Hi all. I've always wanted to experience living in another country, and now that Trump is prez again it's a big kick in the ass to try it. My wife spent a couple of years outside of Valencia a while back and is fluent in Spanish (though she'd need to get used to the Catalonian dialect again), and I speak OK Spanish but learn very fast. I'd say we're the opposite of the cliche of loud, entitled Americans. I've rarely ever encountered rude people, though did in both Barcelona and Malaga, but not in other areas of Spain like Seville and the northeastern coast.

We have a 2.5 y.o. daughter and don't want to raise her in America, even though it's my home country. Spain is highest on the list because of the Digital Nomad Visa and the fact that we can do Spanish pretty well. I'm 51 and my wife is 45.

Here are my concerns:

1. That it's going conservative. Many countries are right now, but we're trying to find out what that would actually mean in a country like Spain. We don't want to leave Trump-land for a similar political climate. We live in a bubble in Los Angeles (which we're both dying to get out of for ourselves and our daughter, for other reasons), but it looks like that might not a safe thing in the coming years, and it sucks to live in a country that's as split as this in such an extreme way.

2. Where to live. I'm a film composer and my wife is a therapist (again, who's fluent in Spanish). With the Digital Nomad Visa, 80% of our income would need to be from outside Spain, which is fine to start with, and would likely continue for me for a while. We want to be in a place that has great culture since that's important to be around for me both personally and business-wise. If it's a big city we would live in the outskirts because we don't like loud city life as far as where we actually live -- we'd like to be able to go into the city but live outside of it. We're not and never were big partiers, prefer things like closing down a restaurant with/cooking for good friends, experiencing culture of all kinds, and also getting out into nature on our own and with friends. Barcelona is a no-go for us, we just aren't fans of it and we both (before we met each other) found the people to be less friendly in general than other places we've been.

3. Rising crime even in cities like Valencia. Hard to tell from reading what people say online, I know. But it's a concern obviously.

4. Health care. I have diabetes type 1, and would be able to get private insurance because it's massively cheaper than the U.S. How do you feel the quality and modernity of doctors in major cities in Spain compares to major cities in the U.S.?

5. is the bureaucracy REALLY as bad as people write about pretty often?

I know that Reddit focuses on the negative, so I would like to hear positive sides too. Possibly open to other countries, as well, but since we know Spanish and there's the Digital Nomad Thing, that's why Spain is interesting. We also have a few friends there in Valencia, Madrid and Malaga.

Long post, I know. Thanks for reading.