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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DJU9" data-source="post: 12335390" data-attributes="member: 44472"><img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/withoutus031512/s_w17_09189287.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   Apartment blocks in Sesena in the Toledo Provence near Madrid, Spain,   seen on February 9, 2012. Only a 45-minute drive from downtown Madrid,   towering vacant apartment blocks loom over empty streets and  weed-filled  lots. Apartments galore are for sale and rent, and prices  are plunging.  More than 13,000 apartments were supposed to go up here  to create a  mini-city for 30,000 people. But only 5,100 were built,  many are  uninhabited and most commercial storefronts in the  mega-development are  bricked shut. Spain's phenomenal real estate crash  and economic  implosion has turned what was supposed to become a  vibrant suburban  paradise for young Spanish couples and their children  into one of the  most visible monuments of the country's real estate  boom gone bust.</blockquote>

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