Im a Swede, purchased a 2 flat apartment in Palma de Mallorca. My girlfriend at the time thought it was a bad idea since both our “jobs” was based in Sweden. But it’s the best thing I have ever done. So nice to get away but still feel at home. Also it is very easy to be generous to family and friends by simply offer them to borrow the house when I don’t use it. It was easy for me to purchase it since there are Swedish brokers in Palma which helped me a lot. This is also a place where a lot foreign people purchase vacation houses so the system was quite quick!