Each American men bears a hat with mouse ears and every American woman is dressed as Cinderella. They hear Disney music all the time while letting children to take selfies with them. Is a very strange place.

Or maybe I have a very stereotyped, very local experience that came from going mostly where all the other tourists go. and I'm wildly extrapolating from here about the rest of the country.

Maybe the older houses are the only available places to rent in some cities when you are young, because they are old and creaky, so still affordable. Does this mean that every Spanish family live in old, poorly insulated houses? Hem, not.

Is Madrid louder than London, Athens, new Dehli, Los Angeles or Pekin? I'm very skeptical about it. Big cities, sport events, bars and heavy traffic streets are just loud places, all around the world. Go where the drunkards join, you'll meet a lot of drunkards. Visit any small village in Castilla. Most of the time you could hear an atom crashing against the soil.