yecla

We have a country house in Villena as non residents, about 25kms from Yecla. You would leave the A31 from Alicante at the Villena, Yecla, Ontinyent turn off and head for Yecla. Its very differrent to Campasol, the real inland Spain, no english urbanisations and about 50/60mins from Alicante and beaches. There are Expats around us in all towns and in Yecla but all living as mostly solitary campo(country) houses. I went from an urbanisation in Gran Alicant with high % of Brits to campo house outside Villena town, much quieter, real Spanish, no shops or bars within 2/3kms, but we prefer the peaceful surroundings. Your social life would be reached only by car(no walking to closeby bar) but there are Brits meeting up in many places, every town has a market day and we all meet up there and once you gain friends, socialising in each others houses. Its not an area if you,re getting on in age as driving could become a problem in later years. We are 70 to 76yrs and do realise we couldnt access our own house if we couldnt drive (no local english speaking taxi service here). Good luck with your decision

Regards

Pauline.

thx Pauline the house for the price just looks fabulous ive just been told though still needs work maybe the area is to isolated for me it was the house and the price I was drawn to maybe too quiet and far out maybe I should stick to the camposol area which seems busier love info on it if ur familiar with it thx Anne

Of course the price for the size will be much better than anything near Camposol because its inland and doesnt have the facilities that you would find nearer the coast. However you wouldnt get us living on an urbanisation for all the tea in china. It always depends on what you need from an area. We dont need busy thats what we love about our area, we can get a social life on our terms and prefer our own large pool to the beach. We found with an urbanisation house it was just like "Eldorado", not the real Spain at all but it doesnt suit everyone.We wanted a holiday home from home feel and now with Brexit looming, we are staying 3months in Spain and 3months in Uk. Best of luck with your choice, its an important decision as difficult to sell if you make a mistake. We lost 36,000€ on selling our first house.

Regards

Pauline.

thx Pauline all this information is helping so much thank u

We have a country house in Yecla & live full time in Spain, we live in the campo about 7km from Yecla centre, It is very quiet but that is what we wanted, we have wonderful Spanish neighbours who have made us feel very welcome & if we need anything they are there to help.

Yecla & it’s people are wonderful & very friendly where ever we go, once they realise you are English most enjoy trying to practice their English speaking.

There are other English people about but we have only met about 10 English couples in the 18 months of living here.

We have bought a house about 3km from the centre we to have lovely spanish neighbours who dont speak a word of english but bring us fresh tomatoes daily.where we are is quiet we drive to a bar or shop we have met about 5 british people in yecla we love  yecla the people and of course the weather.

Hello everyone we have been staying in YECLA for the last month we love the place ,the people are so help full , we have had our villa for 9 month and hate having to leave it would be nice to meet other Ex pats. Our Villa is just off the RM 425 between the last round about leaving Yecla and the Trabis round about ,we haven't met any off our neighbours yet and would really like to ,we went to El cortijo at Paradon on the way into Pinoso every one that was in was English the food was good every one spoke , we will be back soon and hope to meet more people.

Regards to all Lynda + Tony

Hi Lynda

Just seen your post and we are not far from you at all. We moved here from the UK in September so just finding our feet. Not sure if you are over here at the moment but would be nice to meet up sometime.

Trudi & Roy

Hi, as a family with young children, are there many children out playing in yelca as i love the quietness but my children want to be able to meet other children of similar age who are English and Spanish.