10 reasons not to live in a built up area

[olive]

10 reasons why I hate the "coast".

1. The noise. Cars, motorbikes, lorries, scooters, building work, Landanah's, chairs scraped across marble floors in flats at 3a.m., domestic arguments at 3.10 a.m.

2. Unfinished buildings, urbanisations, roads etc.

3. East end accents (Landanah's from the sarfend)

4. People not speaking Spanish in shops, bars etc. People shouting at the locals 'cos they don't understand English, German etc.

5. People drive everywhere like nutters instead of 40kph.

6. There is nowhere to keep pigs, goats and chickens.

7. Too much crime. You can't leave your car, garage and house unlocked. you can't leave your tools out overnight to pick up a job where you left off.

8. Dirty air and pollution - you only see that when you are entering the zone from the so called campo. Have a look at the pall over Malaga. You are breathing that. I wonder if the sea is any better?

9. All day full English breakfasts.

10. Finally the water tastes disgusting with all the treatments it has had to get to your tap.

Country for me, olive.

[Kmoppz]

I'd like a combo of both Campo and coast...

I want the land for growing stuff, and a few chickens, but I also want the bus of the coast, city boy at heart, ut want the trappings of the country!

[oliveview01]

We do get noisy scooters at the weekend and summer when the Spanish go to their ´country houses´ Kids use the track by our house as their personal race track

[shortfuse]

Hi Olive,
Although I am a confirmed & committed 'townie' I agree with much of what you say EXCEPT - '3. East end accents (Landanah's from the sarfend)'
These are three distinct geographical and, dare I say, ahem, cultural areas.

[spanish_lad]

east end.. and sarfend in the same sentence? wash ur mouth out

[Grouser]

I think the words Olive is looking for are 'Estuary English.'

[olive]

"Estuary English"



olive

[Stupot]

Why is it that everyone seems think that the campo and the coast are the only two places to live around here? How about a village about 20 mins inland from Torre del Mar surrounded by campo. I am the only English person in the street but I have great Spanish neighbours and good British friends too. Water, electricity, telephone ADSL all 24 hours and reliable apart from the odd very rare short outages of electricity if there is lightning. There is no traffic to speak of but get the usual occasional idiot on a motorbike and very little crime.

Two village supermarkets, three banks, half a dozen bars all five minutes from home, own medical centre with Emergency treatment (up to a point), two ambulances, loads of little shops dotted around the back streets. As a THIRD option I can recommend it highly ( and I own the land the house is on!). Now, back to the terrace for a beer in the constant cooling breeze!

[wagon ropes]

99 percent of the time it is the campo close to town for me. We are only 3 ks from our nearest town which has almost everything you could wish for. Unfortunately the 1 percent of the time when I do not like it is when, as now, there is a festering dead goat 100 yards from the end of our drive. Ugh!!

[frog]

no dead goats in town today,anyway i expect your local spanish bar may be having a carribean night soon

[samantha]

number 12, Whats about the ehhh up chucks..........northern lads and lasses with their knotted hankies and sandles and white socks, complaining about the beer prices on the coast...'owww much? '

[wagon ropes]

Guess what! Yesterday two men and a JCB arrived on our track to repair a huge gouge which was caused by an oversize load driving past about 6 months ago and then, today, the Municipal dead goat recovery lorry arrived and removed the festering goat. It just goes to show that, in Spain, be it coast or country, everything comes ( or in this case goes) for he who waits