hello I'm new -please be nice to me!! ;0)

[jojo]

I lived on the south coast in the UK which I found grim to be honest - brown, rough sea, pebbles, wooden groins all along the front, a rusty old pier and smelly seaweed. i like the sea and beaches here, but they have mostly overkilled em with tourist junk - but I like to be near enough to visit.

As for work, well in the last couple of weeks, without even trying, I have been offered a job in a nursing home (expat english speaking) and a telesales job (commission only). I think because i live fairly near to a predominantly english town (Alhaurin El Grande), work for english speakers isnt quite as hard to find - the pays rubbish though!! I'm not sure hotels in this area would make a killing, but might be able to tick along?????

As for schools, english speaking schools cost money and I think will eventually alienate your children and prevent them from intergrating with the Spanish and could end up always feeling like an outsider/foriegner (the voice of experience!)

Jo

[Big Pete]

Originally Posted by jojo

I lived on the south coast in the UK which I found grim to be honest - brown, rough sea, pebbles, wooden groins all along the front, a rusty old pier and smelly seaweed. i like the sea and beaches here, but they have mostly overkilled em with tourist junk - but I like to be near enough to visit.

As for work, well in the last couple of weeks, without even trying, I have been offered a job in a nursing home (expat english speaking) and a telesales job (commission only). I think because i live fairly near to a predominantly english town (Alhaurin El Grande), work for english speakers isnt quite as hard to find - the pays rubbish though!! I'm not sure hotels in this area would make a killing, but might be able to tick along?????

As for schools, english speaking schools cost money and I think will eventually alienate your children and prevent them from intergrating with the Spanish and could end up always feeling like an outsider/foriegner (the voice of experience!)

Jo

So you have been to Hastings as well then i know what you mean not quite the best beaches in the world for sure .


I avoid the large to big beaches , this is 1 of 3 little coves i use in Mallorca , has 1 small snack bar , drink bar and thats it . Its about 5 minute walk from my Villa going down and 15 minutes back as its uphill and a killer on the legs

[jojo]

Originally Posted by Big Pete

So you have been to Hastings as well then i know what you mean not quite the best beaches in the world for sure .

Worthing, west sussex, a bit further up the coast, but they're all the same and all bloody awful, grim, miserable places!!

Jo x

[chris(madrid)]

Originally Posted by jojo

Worthing, west sussex, a bit further up the coast, but they're all the same and all bloody awful, grim, miserable places!! Jo x

I was almost on Shell Bay (Poole) - it's by comparison lovely - and as a nipper had St Lucia Beach pretty much to myself (no hotels then).

Would still rather have mountains/lakes. I nearly settled nr Salzburg once. Was offered FREE land (with hunting rights) and work - and with an amorous start already guaranteed. Was on my hol's back in the mid '80s. No regrets - but it was a superb setting. My wife was recently somewhere (in Spain) with her sister and came back all bubbly as she thought it was a bit like Switzerland - SO I suppose we could end up there when we stop working.

[covfan71]

BIG Pete, i know you gave me good advice on THAT thread. Thanks. I was actually talking about the 2 other threads i have posted since then asking for help. By the way we have now opted for State school but still undecided about house

[decgraham]

We've got a place just outside Denia in Pedreguer, Javea I think is beautiful. We had a friend who bought a place in Murcia some years ago where every villa looked the same, he said he felt like he was on a Essex council estate with sunshine (no offence to Essex or Council estates, I used to live on one) he also said that they suffered with water problems. Further up the CB coast it seems to be free of these problems.

[Big Pete]

Originally Posted by covfan71

BIG Pete, i know you gave me good advice on THAT thread. Thanks. I was actually talking about the 2 other threads i have posted since then asking for help. By the way we have now opted for State school but still undecided about house

ok i shall skim through and if i can help your other others i will , as i am that sort of guy

VHP they call me VERY HELPFUL PETE