Potentially moving to Murcia and Los Alcazares

Greg R wrote on Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:16pm:

That all makes sense, but 10 is a bit of a difficult age, education wise, is the plan the Spanish school system or British school?

Ronan2020 wrote on Wed Apr 30, 2025 12:29pm:

Hi, sounds like you are doing all the right things and doing your planning well in advance. We also are looking at moving over to Los Alcazares in a couple of years, our kids are older so we are just waiting to get them through college. We visit LA every year for a month in the summer and have al...

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...so been there in January and February previously. We love it there and find there is a really good mix of tourists/residents, it doesn't get as busy/packed as other areas in the summer and also tends to be busier than other areas in the winter months. The weather always seems to be as good if not better than anywhere else in Spain (I'm always checking it during the dour winter months here in Ireland!!). There is always lots to do also in LA and has always seemed to us quite an easy place to meet people. When we go there for the summer we look at it as if we are living there, so there are great grocery shop options, all the chains are there and eating out is reasonable and available activities are plentiful. I have no idea about the school situation as it's not something that's relevant to us. The best advice I always see here on moving to Spain, is to rent for 6+ months in the area first to make sure you like it rather than purchasing and regretting later. I wish you the best of luck with it and would certainly be interested to see how you get on and where you choose to live.