JoJo is originally from the UK, she moved to Andalucia in Spain on the 4th of February 2008. She lives there with her husband and two children.
The winter nights are drawing in and most of us are swapping our flip-flops and summer cloths for slippers and duffel coats. The evenings are getting colder, it’s getting darker earlier and it’s that time of year where everyone wants a holiday. Not hard to understand then, how winter is a popular time for people to first get the idea to emigrate. Jojo is no different and mentions the cold weather as one of the reasons she wanted to move: ‘I had been dissatisfied with the UK for years, the cold, the greyness, the gloom, the overcrowded ness, the nanny state’. Crikey — that’s certainly more than enough reasons to think about moving and they are all issues that get the goat of most people in the UK. So, what’s the difference between Jojo and everyone else in the UK? ‘I’d wanted to move to Spain way back in 1988 when I divorced my first husband but didn’t have the guts to do it on my own,’ she explains. So, moving away certainly wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction to a few gripes about her home country, Jojo had been thinking about moving for a long time. But as with many people she was in a predicament where it wasn’t the right timing. And often it is family or children that are the biggest factor in not being able to emigrate. ‘The timing just never seemed right, children, parents, work….gradually everything that was in our way was no longer there. However, if we had of left it any longer I don’t think we would have done it because our youngest children were becoming too old to move’. [click to continue…]
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