We say “dejame en paz”.
And is not a young thing, is how it is said around here.
Sadly, this has mostly disappeared, but I think it’s a good example of how the sense of community in Spain differs from that in the U.S. And this feeling isn’t limited to small towns, you can find it in big cities too somehow.
Without knowing for sure, I’m almost certain that people in southern Italy and Greece do the exact same thing.
And while it’s not as popular as before it’s still going strong in summer.
I’m Catalan so we call it “la fresca”, translates to “to the fresh air”.
In my street, ~5-10 people, my mother and some neighbours still do it.
The way towns are build in spain facilitate that, single houses but no garden. We live door by door.
So if you want to be outside you are by definition accesible.
Before TV people used to also be a lot in the balcony just chilling and chatting with people passing by.
This is my street in google mapa in case someone is interested:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/?link=https://www.google.com/maps/@4...
Problem is that regional forums in Europe died because of the regulations.
forocoches(dot)com
And I have more:
mediavida(dot)com ( it means half-life :) )
And then I have random ones:
redcafe(dot)net foro.acb(dot)com
I read them, and post on them daily, forums are alive and kicking it on europe :)
To be honest, I don't believe that any of these "organization systems" really help people that have problems being organized in the first place. I think it's just a fundamentally different way of how I'm wired. My general conclusion is that trying to "fight" my natural way of doing things is always going to be a losing battle, and that instead I just need to figure out ways to handle my general messiness and get it to work for me. I mean, I can certainly be organized for sizable stretches of time, but whenever I start getting pressed for time, or stressed, or lose my motivation for some other reason, it always reverts to the mean.
I'd honestly be really interested to hear if anyone has ever changed from being a "unorganized person" to an "organized person", because it my few decades of life I've never seen it be successfully accomplished.
I understood that my chaotic nature isn’t due to a lack of organization—it’s because I thrive in chaos. I can function well without strict structure because I don’t need it to stay effective.
My manager, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. She needs everything documented and noted, not because she’s inherently more organized, but because the absence of structure creates anxiety and discomfort for her.
She actually complimented me on my ability to navigate uncertainty, to adapt without needing full control, and still feel capable and at ease.
It felt like an epiphany, shifting the way I perceive this entire topic.
As an European, how is this not considered a coup d'etat? From my mindset, right or wrong, that is absolutely unthinkable to happen within a normal functional European country.
Sounds super cool for them, of course, we have been born to early for this, so from our perspective we still shouldn't give a dam. As probably we won't be ghost behind checking how they enjoy that portal to the past.
We still do horses, but hardly anyone is favouring them for travelling around the continent delivering mail.
Kudos to the people that would rather experience that, I guess.
Now, velocity and confort, they don't beat any top IDE.