wrote on Nov 10^th, 2014 at 7:10pm:

wrote on Nov 10th, 2014 at 4:08pm: I've been very disappointed to see all the news outlets reporting this 80% figure which is meaningless without the rest of the facts. The campaign is reporting 2 million people turned out to vote out of a voter base of 5.3 million. That's less than 50% turnout. And 80% percent of those who turned out voted yes to independence. Now as this vote has no legal validity whatsoever I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of no voters didn't bother voting but the vast majority of the pro independencers will have, making this result even more meaningless. Also I wouldn't bet on the generalitat making it easy for all the foreigners voting in a referendum as the majority of them will not be pro. Bruixot Need we say more   "What a waste of money!

No foreigner (US - not the Spanish Catalans) in the right mind would vote yes without absolute guarantees that we won't be evicted if they win. If they go for independence and lose EU status they absolutely could do that if they wanted. They could of course go back to pre- EC days (as opposed to EU) and say we all need visas to travel to and through Catalonia, work permits to work, and permits to stay (issued by Catalonia (not Spain as they are at the moment)).

That's how it used to be in many (now EU)  countries pre EC days for Brits wishing to even travel to France/Spain/etc., never mind live there. There would be absolutely nothing stopping them from imposing rules such as that - but we all knew that before selling everything and moving here didn't we!

John.