Yeah, but my brother lives in Barcelona - and there it's even worse, on lower salaries.

We ended up paying the same price for relatively similar flats, but in BCN that's much harder to achieve, and they are older and need renovation - and there are thousands of AirBnB slumlords buying up everything.

So yeah, the price increases have been a problem (and hit me badly combined with the interest rate increases) but it's still better than most of Western Europe.