Anyone Moved from UK to SPAIN????
 

An exciting opportunity has arrose and I'm seriously contemplating moving myself and my family to spain. I would be deeply appreciative of any advice and / or informational help. Has anyone here made such a transition?

No, but a friend of mine moved from the US to Spain and he LOVES it. Him and his wife/girlfriend/whatever she is own a design firm in Barcelona(I believe). He keeps trying to get me to move over there too.

I have lived in total for 6 years in Spain.....there's loads of british expats living
in Spain. :thumbsup

Not Yet!!!!!!

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If I move there, you should as well and we can develop a little webmaster community! It's happened very quickly so I'm totally lost as to were to start the process if, indeed, I go ahead with it. With it being in the EU it should be pretty easy for us. I think I could do with finding a UK-based service that will handle it all for a fee.

Hi :) Where do you live and could you recommend any service to handle the emigration?

I'm really not sure why the average Brit would want to move there, other than the shitty weather in the UK.

If you're interested, keep in touch will me and I will tell you all the stuff I learn (assuming I do it lol).

Well, I'm not an average brit, and I'm moving there for an opportunity. :winkwink:

good thing to do

It looks like I'm 99% going. gooddomains, you should come too!

You can do better than Spain, LOL!

There are nicer places in the world, but I'm going for business not entirely pleasure. If I could go anywhere it would be a tough choice betweem US, Canada, and Australia.

Bump for afternooners.

There are TONS of british people in Spain, I lived there for 2 years or so, and the brits are everywhere down there ;)

Much easier pace of life in Spain, great weather, and the cost of living is lower too!

Just make sure you have a phone line before you move there - Telefonica either very quick or it takes (literally) years to get phoneline. You have been warned!:pimp

Much easier pace of life in Spain, great weather, and the cost of living is lower too!

Just make sure you have a phone line before you move there - Telefonica either very quick or it takes (literally) years to get phoneline. You have been warned!:pimp

stayed in spain for quite some time. It's easy, cheap and you get to nap....

You thinking of moving there Gary? I thought it was just for holidays :)

Blah! You just call 1004 and order it. From any phone since you won't have one LOL. But that is 20x faster than ordering it in the Telefonica stores! Seriously. The wait is when you order it there - always use 1004 for everything. They even have an English speaking department.

Make sure you check out the downsides that you hear about like land grabs (Valencia region I believe). Also there was that corruption scandal recently on the Costa Del Sol that has cocked up some expats.

Other than that I would definitely go for it as those are not typical of your normal relocation.

Wow ... this is great! Thanks for the positive responses, folks! Can someone be kind enough to dumb down the emigration process for me or point me to a site? For instance, can I just go there, and apply for all the necessary papers, or should I do that in the UK? And, if I can just go there, and go get the papers, where do I go? Apologies for such stupid questions, but I havent the faintest idea of even where to start.

For anyone interested ... this page and entire site are proving an excellent read. The emigration process is spelled out very well. http://www.idealspain.com/Pages/Info...ingToSpain.htm

I'm 99.99% sure of doing this now.

I'm going to be buying a place out there, but obviously I can't do that until I'm out there. Can anyone point me to a site where I can look at long term rentals?

Try Rosy Donate. She runs the "Red Tape Consultancy" helping Expacts with Spanish formatilites. Her number is +34 922 795 528 or email [email protected]

I have not spoken to her for ages, good luck :-)

Emjay, thanks very much dude! :)

Do it !! Don't even waste time thinking about it.

This place fucking sucks, and it's getting worse... :2 cents:

I made the decision tonight with the wife-boss and I'm doing it!! Damn, havent been this excited in ages. Agree with you on the state of the UK ... has been going to shit for too long now.

Thanks for the encouragement, mate!

I hear, and maybe this is just a rumor, but I hear they don't speak English over there.

That sounds like a problem to me.

I'm Portuguese and use to spend my hollidays in Spain. THEY DO KNOW HOW TO LIVE.

Make the move if you can.

Spanish sun instead of British rain. :thumbsup

Usually they speak nothing but spanish but you can allways learn it. Check this out: http://www.linguaphone.co.uk/

What? Learn another language?

I'm A 'merican, I don't need to learn me no other languages. Everyone else should speak American in their 3rd world countries.

My wife is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

Can she speak American?

Moved with my GF to Tenerife almost 7 years ago, still here and always will be! Now married with 2 kids and love the life.
The weather's better than the mainland and being part of the EU very easy to settle.

Hi emjay, nice meeting you last week...how's things?

She needs to work on her "Hey, Y'all" and "That's way cool!" but she's passable. :)

Sounds great and good to know. :)

watch out theres plenty of scammers in spain trying to sell you bogus lottery/flight tickets. Recently some couple got murdered cause they owned some large time-share business - certain gangster apparantly killed them (well hired people to do the dirty work) I would be very careful over there.

Thanks for the warning dude - I'll keep this in mind for sure.