Thinking of moving and living permanently at La Manga

You might want to get some tax advice regarding your internet businesses.

If you live in Spain for >183 days per year, you become a fiscal resident - you pay income tax here.

Assuming your businesses are registered somewhere (UK ?), there will be a complication of some sort. 

Worth an hour of a qualified adviser's time.

I support Will60s opinion. Remember that we are still in an incomplete Brexit, so you would most likely be coming as a non-EU resident, which brings complications with conditions to reside, driving licences, tax regimes etc. Covid19 has moved Brexit off the radar somewhat, but it is still there looming in the background.

Don't wait for Brexit to happen, move as soon as you can!!

Gaining residence as a non-Eu citizen is a torturous process, I have done it but the time, expense and minimum income requirements can be onerous.

The expat community is strong on the western side of the Mar Menor is strong. Not so sure about La Manga.

Oh thanks for the replies dont worry about tax stuff i am ex investment banking so i have no concerns re likely  EU tax regimes and scenarios   ...its more about is there a large ex pat community ..what is it like etc ...what is la manga like in winter ..is there any sort of social scene ...that kind of stuff ......also i dont mind only being there half a year its fine .....there a a few countries I like the look of ...thinking of Spain and Colombia ...flights between the two are very cheap.

I am also wondering what is the best way to fi d a property to rent ..is there a direct market or is it AirBnB

Hello

I'm also thinking of buying a villa/apartment and living there at least half the year, autumn and winter, and are also wondering how it would be. I play golf, tennis, padel , attend the gym almost every day and kitesurf. Are som of the sport facilities closed during the winter? The weather sounds perfect for tennis etc,,, ore?

Also wondering if the club is almost empty during the winter ore is it a all year around community?

/Helena

La Manga is very much a summer venue.  You could fire a shotgun there in the winter and only hit a caretaker

ok, thank you! Doesn't sound funny,,, Do you recommend something else, near kitesurfing and where it is easy to play tennis/padel/golf? I would love to have a house by the sea ( lagoon ) but what about the floods?

Helena

Los Alcázares has a thriving winter community, lots of kiteboarding and has tennis courts. 

Not sure about how many people play tennis here tho'. Will leave that for others to answer.

While the area from the Rambla south is prone to flooding, the council has spent a lot of time and money improving water drainage in the last year, so future heavy rain events might cause less chaos. The property developers are madly building to the north where its slightly higher and I imagine they have done their homework. 

The summer population, in a normal, perhaps 2021, reaches 125,000 so there are lots of amenities here.

Thank you Roberto!