What is so bad about that...sound ok to me..most that I know really enjoy this..watching others being active..eg football or cricket and drinking beer..isnt everyones cup of tea.Id have to keep active by digging out septic tanks and installing solar panels etc on my country shack.
We used to visit Benahavis, near San Pedro, up until about 4/5 years ago, and can certainly confirm what you say. We gave up on the place! Apart from the fact the village became totally spoilt by all the building, as soon as you went down to the coast, invariably it was gridlock. San Pedro itself became absolutely impossibe (and impassable!)Lorraine - Mijas wrote: The roads between Marbella and Estepona are often hellish and equal to anything I had to encounter in the UK.
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Sure there are more jobs there, unfortunately more people chasing them. Met three Spanish from Barcelona, here in UK recently, all professional people, and they are all working here because they cannot get work in Spain.. And at a wage they could not dream of in Spain.silver wrote:At present job opportunities here are few and far between in Andalucia...but can be found in Madrid and Barcelona and other large towns.
If you mean doctors, biologists ect.. the ones I know earn far more than you would ever imagine...If you have ever had an apointment with someone like this..and you can count it wont take you too long to work out just how much some profesionals do earn here..professional people,
True, but the last time I worked in Madrid you had to have a very good level of castellano. Its the capital you see and English is not the dominant language for some reason! Also a bit of catalan would help you in Barcelona. That rules out most of the 'new lifers' who arrive in Malaga every day looking for their promised land.At present job opportunities here are few and far between in Andalucia...but can be found in Madrid and Barcelona and other large towns.
This type of problem is not one peculiar to a remote finca in Spain. I used to work for a housing charity in Bristol enabling the elderly and disabled to remain in their own homes (if they wanted) by carrying out adaptations, repairs etc etc.Bongtrees wrote:Living on a track in an uninsulated house with a woodburner or worst still a portable gas heater, well water, no electricity etc etc are manageable when someone is fit and healthy but I would not like to think how difficult that or those persons lives could deteriote if they or a partner becomes infirm.
What? so I have to sell up and move to a rundown shack in the mountains with no water, gas, electricity, sewerage so that I can make comments.Like Cervantes..and most other things in life, you have to TRY to enable judgment.. only fools make comments about things they know nothing of.
These particular three were a vet, a translator, and a chemical engineer. It's a fact, Spain is turning out more doctors, nurses, vets etc than it has posts for. As a consequence, there are now many of these working in UK. In our area, we regularly have Spanish vets, and talking to them, it seems they have worked all over UK. As Spain's unemployement rate is over twice that of the UK, I guess it's not surprising. As regards doctors or specialist charges in Spain, I know nothing, but I know a cosy five min chat with a specialist here will set you back somewhere in the region of £140.silver wrote:If you mean doctors, biologists ect.. the ones I know earn far more than you would ever imagine....professional people,
England remind me of horror movies...but I´m sure its not that bad there now days.some of the stories about
sound to me the problem was with the "cortijo" This was not a ruin it was a "reformed house" with two bathrooms.Tried the cortijo thing years ago and its ok for summer hols
(cortijo s have afew more than 2 bedrooms) Who reformed it???horrific
sounds like a cowboy job...but nothing that money cant change.Electric fading, cold in winter is different to the cold in the UK and we went through the gas cylinder route, its just great when you run a hot bath and it goes! Well ran dry during the last drought. This was not a ruin it was a "reformed house" with two bathrooms. Inspite of central heating our clothes always felt damp in the wardrobes during the rainy times. !
Who is your neighbour now????and just how much meaningful conversations are you involved in???Our only neighbours were campo workers and a few toothless widows, great meaningful conversations!!
I think it was last year, or possibly the year before, we popped in on our way down from Ronda to see a friend, and like you, I was horrified!katy wrote:Frank - Benhavis, we ate there a few weeks ago and hadn't been for about a year, its horrific, if you haven't visited for 4 years you should see it now (or perhaps not). We once contemplated buying a house there thank god we didn't. Spent a lot of my childhood in S Pedro but don't go there now.
What was a nice spot by the river, has now got a huge new hotel, on the hillside on the left as you drive in, which had no buildings at all there, is covered with houses, La Pacheca on the right has had new blocks built right in front of it blocking out all the riew to the river. Another place I won't be revisiting. Shame, I liked it 15 years ago! I realise we can't stand still, but Benahavis for me, has been completely ruined.
This is getting scary, that's a few times I have agreed with you now Katy!katy wrote: As for sitting out the winter in jumpers and sox -- yeah great, just what I came to andalucia for!!
Dressing up to keep warm, and huddling around a solitary gas heater is not what it should be about, in my opinion. I would only move to Spain for a much better quality of life, and sitting in a damp, freezing house through the winter does not seem a step in the right direction.Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 50 guests
