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Hi,
I'm faily new here but I posted a few things on the Teaching English stick thread...
I am looking to receive productive advise on how to make my plan happen.
I'm planning on moving to Spain between August and October - the extra time allowance is if things don't quite go as planned. The plan is aiming for August.
I'll be selling all of my possessions in England, and leaving my job, but not burning all my bridges. So there will be a route back for me, but it won't be very appealing and I'd be horribly loathed to take it. But if I should end up an alcoholic on the streets of Barcelona, lets just say that I have a rather minor "get out of jail free" card.
The decision to go somewhere else was made over a year ago, the decision for that place to (initially at least) be spain was made last month. I am travelling with a friend, so there's two of us. He's at least as set on this as I am - he tends to be more of a nonchallant idealist and I am more of a visionary realist.
My Income: Before I leave the country I will almost certainly have set-up a web design business with another friend. This venture could bring in the entire living income that I'll need - it'll be a UK VAT registered busiess and all my work will be done via a laptop. Or it could only provide part of my income.
If it only provides part of my income then I will need a job in spain. Things I am considering right now: Teaching English, or Bar-work (part time, I won't entertain service industry work for any longer than 25 hours a week).
Our skill in Spanish? Right now - zero. We need to start learning soon.
Why Spain? Out of our options it seems the easiest place to potentially get settled in as well as meeting all our other criteria.
What happens if Spain doesn't work out? We move to Cyprus where we'd have a free place to stay for two months and could hopefully get established in that time.
It's also note worthy that I am taking my car - we're going to drive to Spain.
What are we looking for?
I'm going to be completely honest here. This is an adventure, a party lifestyle, and a complete rejection of my horrid (but well paid) 9-5 office job and the ever more gloomy outlook of things in blighty.
We're both party animals. As such we're going to be within transit distance of a big party centre or resort - but probably not live in one.
This is not an attempt to expand my career, or make a new life, or anything like that.
I've recently turned 27, and as far as I'm concerned I'm just warming up. Now is the perfect time for me to escape from the 40 hours work a week lifetime jail sentence.
I've worked abroad before (Canada) and I've travelled a lot, so I have a fair bit of experience in doing this.
Up until now most of our work has been planning and decision making - but pretty soon we're going to have to do some actual work. I'm going to make a checklist now in rough order of priority
If anyone has additions or ammendments please let me know.
Checklist
TEFL/CELTA Course
- work out plausibility of taking one and relative financial worth
- find an appropriate one
- enroll
Learning Basic Spanish
- Start working through a good book
- Talk to Spanish friends about some help
- Consider a basic course
Exact Location and Accomadation
- Determine a couple of exact locations where we could live.
- Investigate cost of living and accomdation availability.
- Decide on exact destination
Other Documents
- Investigate other documents which may be needed. Health forms, residential permits, etc.
- Get them.
The Car
- Learn all the things I need to do with the car to be legally driving in spain
- Do them
- Book the car in for a full service.
Cultural Integration
- Investigate and read about Spannish culture.
- Pre-make friends with people living in area using internet.
Bank & Phone
- Set-up a Spanish bank account, before I leave if possible.
- Work out best option with mobile phone (I still have 18 months on my UK contract.)
UK Stuff
- Sell UK stuff
I'm faily new here but I posted a few things on the Teaching English stick thread...
I am looking to receive productive advise on how to make my plan happen.
I'm planning on moving to Spain between August and October - the extra time allowance is if things don't quite go as planned. The plan is aiming for August.
I'll be selling all of my possessions in England, and leaving my job, but not burning all my bridges. So there will be a route back for me, but it won't be very appealing and I'd be horribly loathed to take it. But if I should end up an alcoholic on the streets of Barcelona, lets just say that I have a rather minor "get out of jail free" card.
The decision to go somewhere else was made over a year ago, the decision for that place to (initially at least) be spain was made last month. I am travelling with a friend, so there's two of us. He's at least as set on this as I am - he tends to be more of a nonchallant idealist and I am more of a visionary realist.
My Income: Before I leave the country I will almost certainly have set-up a web design business with another friend. This venture could bring in the entire living income that I'll need - it'll be a UK VAT registered busiess and all my work will be done via a laptop. Or it could only provide part of my income.
If it only provides part of my income then I will need a job in spain. Things I am considering right now: Teaching English, or Bar-work (part time, I won't entertain service industry work for any longer than 25 hours a week).
Our skill in Spanish? Right now - zero. We need to start learning soon.
Why Spain? Out of our options it seems the easiest place to potentially get settled in as well as meeting all our other criteria.
What happens if Spain doesn't work out? We move to Cyprus where we'd have a free place to stay for two months and could hopefully get established in that time.
It's also note worthy that I am taking my car - we're going to drive to Spain.
What are we looking for?
I'm going to be completely honest here. This is an adventure, a party lifestyle, and a complete rejection of my horrid (but well paid) 9-5 office job and the ever more gloomy outlook of things in blighty.
We're both party animals. As such we're going to be within transit distance of a big party centre or resort - but probably not live in one.
This is not an attempt to expand my career, or make a new life, or anything like that.
I've recently turned 27, and as far as I'm concerned I'm just warming up. Now is the perfect time for me to escape from the 40 hours work a week lifetime jail sentence.
I've worked abroad before (Canada) and I've travelled a lot, so I have a fair bit of experience in doing this.
Up until now most of our work has been planning and decision making - but pretty soon we're going to have to do some actual work. I'm going to make a checklist now in rough order of priority
If anyone has additions or ammendments please let me know.
Checklist
TEFL/CELTA Course
- work out plausibility of taking one and relative financial worth
- find an appropriate one
- enroll
Learning Basic Spanish
- Start working through a good book
- Talk to Spanish friends about some help
- Consider a basic course
Exact Location and Accomadation
- Determine a couple of exact locations where we could live.
- Investigate cost of living and accomdation availability.
- Decide on exact destination
Other Documents
- Investigate other documents which may be needed. Health forms, residential permits, etc.
- Get them.
The Car
- Learn all the things I need to do with the car to be legally driving in spain
- Do them
- Book the car in for a full service.
Cultural Integration
- Investigate and read about Spannish culture.
- Pre-make friends with people living in area using internet.
Bank & Phone
- Set-up a Spanish bank account, before I leave if possible.
- Work out best option with mobile phone (I still have 18 months on my UK contract.)
UK Stuff
- Sell UK stuff