Advice needed please on deciding moving abroad -Newbies !!! - Page 3

We are going to stop first night in Dijon and second in gerona.  This means 7,5 hours driving each day.  The hotels I chosen are pet friendly and hoping they have availability.  I will give reviews of route and hotels when we have done it.

Karen

That would be great Karen.  Look forward to hearing from you.

Carolibe

Excellent advice 

We bought a holiday home there and it's a superb little village. Enough amenities and close enough to drive to larger towns or the coast in 15 minutes. You will get a bargain at the moment. We bought with the intention of moving longer term when retired but bought a smaller place for now on Hacienda Riquelme Golf Resort which is low maintenance and a superb all encompassing resort 3km from sucina centre.

I would recommend contacting Liz McReynolds if you are planning a trip. We viewed whilst on annual holiday and rented for 2 weeks. I'd recommend that then it's not too full on.

Liz details are  00 34 690 186 810 [email protected] . She is really nice and not pushy at all. Just leaves you to decide if it's for you and advises you on the area. Give her a call and she can sort everything out for you or just have a chat.

Good luck! Just do it! You will make a profit as soon as you sign!!

This is the view from our balcony for a lot less than £80k and with 2 large bedrooms!!

Beautiful. 

I think anyone who moves to Spain or Europe generally is very brave with Brexit looming.

We will unfortunately leave the EU in 2019. At that time anyone who has not applied for and received spanish residency for at least 5 previous years will not be eligible to be a resident as things stand. That means no state health care, only private, and as a non resident only allowed to stay for 183 days in any year. You will also be liable for non-resident income tax. This is a tax levied on what your tax office consider to be the potential rental income of your property when you are back in the UK and is payable whether you rent the property or not.

Unfortunately due to the stupidity of the UK government nobody has a clue as to what could or might happen. I have just read a paper stating that all non-resident people would have to apply for a visa from the spanish consulate in the UK and that these will only be valid for 6 months, less for holiday makers, and of course you will need that both to enter the country and to leave.

Lets hope they start to sort this out soon.

Hi there.  Replying here with tongue in cheek.  

We asked ourselves are they all going to line us up in cuff links and march us to the nearest Airport?

What about all the Spanish in the U.K?  Do they prepare to give up their jobs, especially here in Milton Keynes (headquarters of Santander).  

We have to watch this space.  Yes/No!!!

There are still many British buying in Spain (although I don't think maybe quite so many).

All the best.

Margaret

If you have permanent residencia, ie you have been here for more than 5 years then its pretty certain you can stay.If you are employed you would be even more secure. Unfortunately many Brits here are retired and the UK has not agreed to fund their healthcare. This could force the majority to return to the UK. Similarly the majority of Spanish and other EU citizens in the UK are working and paying national insurance so they could stay.

The problem is with Brits moving to the EU now as when they come to be considered for permanent residencia they will no longer be EU citizens and so it could be that this opportunity might not be extended to them.

Brexit will sort itself out. The best thing to do is stay partly abroad and keep a base in the U.K. At the moment. Spain will not freeze out the U.K. They need us to keep the country going!

Hi there:  at the moment reference health care, the situation is as follows:

If you are a UK Pensioner then you apply for the S1 form.  This entitles you (at a cost presently to the UK tax payer) to health care whilst living over there.  You do not have to have 'residencia'.  You apply for this S1 form as soon as you know your date which you will be in Spain. You can have your 'other half' husband or wife put on your S1 form as your 'dependant' for the same entitlement to health care.

I personally feel one cannot put their life on hold just at the behest of Politicians. Others must think the same as me.  Read daily of British people coming over to Spain tomorrow, next month, Next Year etc.     Politicians change their minds too whichever way the wind blows.  And another angle.....whatever seems to happen behind the scenes affects the €/£ exchange rate.  

Margaret