kellycrull.com - expat life in Spain

The problem with small towns is they always want to be bigger. Even big cities usually have a big brother they look up to. Of course they’d never tell you that, but that’s the way brothers are. I get the impression here in Spain that it’s like this: Barcelona wants to be as big as Madrid, Valencia wants to be as big as Barcelona, Castellón wants to be as big as Valencia, and so on. Just like people, cities are never content with who they are.

Castellón may be the capital of its province, and it weighs in as the largest city in the province with over 160,000 residents, but the fact is, it’s still small. Nevertheless, I’d like to stick up for the little guy. I don’t know my new home very well yet, but I can tell you this: April and I went hunting for Se Aquila (“for rent”) signs today and as far as we wandered in any direction, we were never more than a ten minute walk from our hotel. I think life will be very manageable here. Everybody and everything a person could need is close by.