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Expat life in the Balearics beats the pain in the rest of Spain

by Ray Clancy on May 2, 2012

Mallorca has benefitted from the increase in expat residents

Whilst the ‘party’ may be over in some parts of Spain with dipping house prices, a rise in the cost of living and an unfavourable exchange rate forcing many expat Brits to return to the UK, in the Balearics the British population is growing, the latest data shows.

According to latest figures from the National Statistics Institute, the number of British residents in the Balearics has risen in the past year bringing the official total to 23,773 people. [click to continue…]

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