Relocation to Spain Experience

rp2000 said:
You will see both those types of people in both the areas you mentioned, albeit less than in Barcelona city.

If seeing "gypsies" ("jitanos" locally) and/or immigrants upsets you then you need to move a village or something! Spain is not that different to the UK in towns or cities, as you would think. Probably just as muticultural tbh.


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When lived in Alicante 15 years ago, there were some North Africans, quite a lot of people from Latin America and then there was quite a noticeable contingent of Roma beggars and Senegalese traders selling knock off goods by the beach.

Stories of East European crime syndicates were always doing the rounds, whether or not any of them were true is another matter.

The most memorable was of Romanians disguised as Guardia Civil pulling over motorists on the highway and robbing them at gunpoint.
 
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There a bit more to this treaty, but UK will end up worse off and India better off, UK treasury will lose.

Companies will favour India workers over British workers.

I think the UK is one of the top most corrupt countries, I don't know if its number 1 but it is definitely in the top 5 or top 10 But then thats my view.
They will have a competitive advantage over other companies.

They are going to collapse the NHS add this to the 1000s of foreign nationals coming to use the NHS for free then leave.

I don't mind paying taxes to help the less well off British citizens those that have disabilities or traumas etc... but this is just not on.
Just more reason to leave this broken island.
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I see there’s a degree of whitewashing going on in the media over this but it doesn’t hide the fact that all the big Indian consultancies, like Wipro and Tata, are going to have an even bigger competitive edge than they already have and they’re already hoovering up all the government and public sector IT contracts.
 
That Jekka Gal said:
The most memorable was of Romanians disguised as Guardia Civil pulling over motorists on the highway and robbing them at gunpoint.
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Yeah still happens around this way. Although the new thing is pretending to be water/gas engineers trying to get access into houses in the richer areas.

The comment that the UK is more corrupt than Spain is quite laughable. In our village you can generally pay cash to avoid certain taxes even when requesting documents from the local town hall, and there's not much happens here without envelopes of cash changing hands!
 
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Martynt74 said:
Yeah still happens around this way. Although the new thing is pretending to be water/gas engineers trying to get access into houses in the richer areas.

The comment that the UK is more corrupt than Spain is quite laughable. In our village you can generally pay cash to avoid certain taxes even when requesting documents from the local town hall, and there's not much happens here without envelopes of cash changing hands!
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I had to do some analysis of exports/imports a while back.

I read a few EU documents which noted that Spain has a large amount of endemic low-level corruption, which damages their economy in all kinds of ways.
 
Yeah, definitely an issue. Probably worse outside of the main cities because it's more under the radar.

They're definitely trying to combat it. There's a lot of measures coming in now where companies need to submit sales invoices and then there's a matching system for tax returns making sure that both buyer/seller are recording the transaction, along with restrictions on large withdrawls of cash.
 
That Jekka Gal said:
When lived in Alicante 15 years ago, there were some North Africans, quite a lot of people from Latin America and then there was quite a noticeable contingent of Roma beggars and Senegalese traders selling knock off goods by the beach.
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I've been here for the last 12 years and that's an accurate description of Barcelona, and most other cities I've visited in Spain, to this day :cry: None of those groups have caused me any problems per se, and i feel much safer here than my 30+ years growing up in London. Literally the biggest crime I have to worry about is pickpocketing, and i've been lucky (so far!!).


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rp2000 said:
You will see both those types of people in both the areas you mentioned, albeit less than in Barcelona city.

If seeing "gypsies" ("jitanos" locally) and/or immigrants upsets you then you need to move a village or something! Spain is not that different to the UK in towns or cities, as you would think. Probably just as muticultural tbh.


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Those areas populated by those groups are difficult to resell in the future, tend to have higher crime rates, higher insurance costs etc..
 
rp2000 said:
I've been here for the last 12 years and that's an accurate description of Barcelona, and most other cities I've visited in Spain, to this day :cry: None of those groups have caused me any problems per se, and i feel much safer here than my 30+ years growing up in London. Literally the biggest crime I have to worry about is pickpocketing, and i've been lucky (so far!!).


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Where are you based?
 
My company was founded by a Spaniard and originally Spanish but now primarily based in the UK but we still have a heavy presence in Seville and Almeria. I have been pondering a move there but with young children (9 and 6) I'm not sure if it would work for them. One of my colleagues lives in and works remotely from Sotogrande and that looks perfect.
 
panthro said:
My company was founded by a Spaniard and originally Spanish but now primarily based in the UK but we still have a heavy presence in Seville and Almeria. I have been pondering a move there but with young children (9 and 6) I'm not sure if it would work for them. One of my colleagues lives in and works remotely from Sotogrande and that looks perfect.
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Probably an ideal time to move because they're young enough to pick up the language pretty easily. We've got quite a few friends who moved out with kids that age and they've all settled really well.

Only thing i would say is to look closer to a reasonable sized town. A few people moved close to where we currently live and it's a bit too remote for kids really. Ends up with huge reliance on the parents for school runs etc and then also leaves kids isolated outside of that. Most have since relocated towards the smaller cities and on urbanisations rather than completely in the country like us.
 
Martynt74 said:
Probably an ideal time to move because they're young enough to pick up the language pretty easily. We've got quite a few friends who moved out with kids that age and they've all settled really well.

Only thing i would say is to look closer to a reasonable sized town. A few people moved close to where we currently live and it's a bit too remote for kids really. Ends up with huge reliance on the parents for school runs etc and then also leaves kids isolated outside of that. Most have since relocated towards the smaller cities and on urbanisations rather than completely in the country like us.
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Question I wanted to ask you. This is about IHT in Spain. I understand the heir pays any tax. What I can not seem to find.

When the person dies is the tax rate based on deceased residence location not on the heir resident local?
 
panthro said:
My company was founded by a Spaniard and originally Spanish but now primarily based in the UK but we still have a heavy presence in Seville and Almeria. I have been pondering a move there but with young children (9 and 6) I'm not sure if it would work for them. One of my colleagues lives in and works remotely from Sotogrande and that looks perfect.
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Your kids are so young that they can learn another language just from being around people who speak it on a regular basis.

I was in another country for awhile dating someone who had a daughter, we were living together before the daughter even met me
Me and the daughter who was around 7 couldn't speak a common language but obviously still had to spend time together...

we leant the names of objects/items/colours etc from each other just naturally playing lego, crafting or whatever without her mum being around to translate between us.

Her mum never tried to teach the kid English she pretty much just learned to speak it by some innate ability to recognise patterns in language and understand what most words meant on a subliminal level.


she was speaking good English within 6-12 months, but couldn't tell you the English alphabet.

I only ever managed to get to beginner in her language and wouldn't be comfortable trying to communicate with it, and that was with me trying pretty hard on duolingo (Deutsch)
 
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I am about to get my documents apostilled this week. I hope to book two appointments with two different Embassy's. I have been told there are a few end of June or July slots for both so hoping I'll take them and hand in all the documents.

Whomever comes back the fastest positive result, I'll take up.
The quicker I leave the happier I'll be.

Also applying for a EU visa.
 
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Documents sent off to Government FCDO for apostilles.

Then they off to Spain for my dual citizenship application. Exciting!
 
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Update just received the scan of my apostilled documents today from the company that's doing them for me. Now just need to get the papers copies. Now getting them translated along with everything else.
I decided to get them translated as I don't want any issues. Plus saves me having problems once I've emigrated with the local authorities.

Yay, hope to send them once they are back for my application.
 
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