Originally Posted by Stravinsky

Its always a bit of a pain with the banks as you normally need to provide utility bills etc to show where you live!!! The UK are backward with banking. I tried to open a Euro account and found it quite difficult with HSBC. To transfer Euros out here to Spain with them costs £25 a time.

So I kept a UK account, opened a Spanish account, and then used something called ñññ You can transfer your sterling to the Sunpay account, transfer it to euros within the account, and then transfer the euros to your spanish account. It costs 10 euros per transfer so you need to plan your transfers to make the most of it.

I dont think you should contemplate UK citizenship ...... unless for some reaon you want to give up your Spanish citizenship. As an EU resident you can go there and work there, in much the same way I have moved to your homeland