In Ciudad Real? I was born and raised here, so, all my life. I was only in Madrid for three-four months, but it's not the most impersonal city. And it has a lot more international stores than most other places in Spain -- not just the theaters, but there's a lot of Starbucks (corporate evil, whatever; I wish there was a Starbucks here, homemade iced caramel macchiatos are just not the same) and fast food chain places, and Fnac is a pretty good mainstream store to find international movies/literature/etc. It's also not a difficult city to get used to. The subway's pretty straightforward, at least; I never really used the bus system.