It varies. Obviously not Spain, but I lived in Ireland (a place Americans romanticize) for a decade and there was abundant cynicism. I got tired of mentioning ideas and plans to people and immediately hearing how they could fail. With friends from California (and Oregon) the response to "I want to build a house" wasn't "that will fail, here's why it's a bad idea, you will go bankrupt, only pros know how to do that" but "hell yeah I'll bring a nailgun!".