wish i hadn't moved to spain

[thrax]

My nearest main town is Croydon where you may have read a father on his way to visit his wife in hospital following the birth of their son was knifed to death in front of his 3 year old daughter. Third murder in that street in a couple of months. It is becoming a no-go area and much of the town is violent and horrendous on Friday and Saturday nights, like a lot of places in Britain (and elsewhere in the world). Hang on in there and with a bit of luck it may all work out for you - sure hope it does. Can we have an update on how you all are right now??

[markjd]

Update
Fingers crossed will be moved in the next 2 weeks, have now been officially allowed to start my business although the noise still continues, is has got a bit better since i knocked on the door with an axe in my hand.
The house is actually like a derelict house with a solid front door, they are well known to the police for problems i was told by the local police, they have witnessed the noise on quite a few occassions but obviuosly the person living their thinks the police are a joke and turns it up when they leave, i think the police just cant be bothered any more as when i last spoke to them 4 weeks after i reported it to the town hall they said their is nothing wrong with playing loud music until 10pm, the law cant do nothing wish they had told me before i wasted 3 months trying to get it stoped.
I even told the police i would chop their fingers off if it didn't stop and they didn't care.

On a positive note we are moving to a villa about 25km away with 7,000 sq metres of land, pool and garage, we still get to stay inland away from the tourist areas, i am due to go to school and learn more Spanish in 3 weeks and our dog gets lots of space to run around in.
Thank you everyone for your help and advice

[thrax]

Excellent news. Good luck in the move and hope it all works out for you and your family.

[Stravinsky]

Originally Posted by markjd

Update
Fingers crossed will be moved in the next 2 weeks, have now been officially allowed to start my business although the noise still continues, is has got a bit better since i knocked on the door with an axe in my hand.
The house is actually like a derelict house with a solid front door, they are well known to the police for problems i was told by the local police, they have witnessed the noise on quite a few occassions but obviuosly the person living their thinks the police are a joke and turns it up when they leave, i think the police just cant be bothered any more as when i last spoke to them 4 weeks after i reported it to the town hall they said their is nothing wrong with playing loud music until 10pm, the law cant do nothing wish they had told me before i wasted 3 months trying to get it stoped.
I even told the police i would chop their fingers off if it didn't stop and they didn't care.

On a positive note we are moving to a villa about 25km away with 7,000 sq metres of land, pool and garage, we still get to stay inland away from the tourist areas, i am due to go to school and learn more Spanish in 3 weeks and our dog gets lots of space to run around in.
Thank you everyone for your help and advice

Glad to hear things improving

[tigersharkjs]

Yay!! Good work, Mark and family. We were, and are, all wishing you the best. Keep us posted of your new home.

[cuevadame]

Excellent news - onwards and up and good luck!

[markjd]

Originally Posted by cuevadame

Excellent news - onwards and up and good luck!

news update
now sitting in my new place in the country, the views are stunning being only half a mile from the mountain, the dog has made friends and the only noise is the crackle of the logs on the fire.
Its amazing how a lot of vebal on the phone to telefonica and the next day an engineer is putting up the phone poles and a few days later everything is up and running.
when we do eventually buy a property i think i am going to get it built as keeping the house cool in the summer hits the heating bill hard when its cold in the morning and evening, er indoors suffers the cold more than me so our last electric bill was €420 for 2 months.
Luckily here their are lots of trees and the owners have someone come and prune them we have enough wood for about 2 months, hopefully by then it will be warmer.

thanks for everyones help and advice

[cuevadame]

Fab news - well done, it sounds great!

You could move to a cave house........cool in summer (no AC necessary) warm in winter (one log fire will keep you toasty).