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Originally Posted by coldshot
Hi Tootsie
That is a great post i have to say  im glad you posted as it was a great help.
The whole job thing does bother us slightly and i doubt this will happen this year as before we go i would like us both to be able to speak spanish.
We have virtually no possesions at the moment anyway so that wouldnt be too much of a problem, everything we own that we would want to keep would fit into a small car...literally.
I think also its more the chance to get away from the UK we want not nessaserily to go to spain, we just chose spain because we had both been there before....considering the whole job situation we may have second thoughts about this and choose somewhere else.
Just out of interest Tootsie, as you lived out there and mentioned you had saving...can i ask how much of those savings you did use in the end?
We have no high expectations its more for the experience to be honest, we have a tendency to throw ourselves in the deep end quite often and would be quite happy to 'slum it' so to speak growing our own veg etc etc that isnt a problem. |
Thanks for reading and replying Matt, I have a tendency to go on a bit
as do most women eh!!
It's good that you have your own business that you can do from out there and that your girlfriend has a trade, although there were a lot of english hairdressers working where we were (not all good though!)
Learning Spanish would be a must for me. When we went we knew a small amount, enough to get by in the bank, shops etc but by no means fluent and that was a really important thing for us to do when we got back.
However I look at it, the experience was fantastic. Living in Spain is wonderful but it isn't idyllic! I am not saying that this is how you see it but it is how many many people look at it before they go.
With regards to savings, we only came back with a very small amount. Having said that though, we did have a lovely life there and wanted for nothing really. Ran a car, when people were over we did all of the things that you would on a holiday, we furnished the house that we were renting etc. So yes, we could have been a lot more frugal and come back with more. One of the things that I would definitely do differently this time is think about the pennies more in those initial few mths!
As I said, sorry if I sound negative because I really don't want to. I would honestly recommend it to anyone, we miss the lifestyle so much but you really have to be prepared for the unexpected, hardwork, adjusting, and to be thrown completely out of your comfort zone!!!