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Jordan wrote on Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:25am:
Hi I’m looking at buying a villa in mojacar and moving from uk I have 4 kids 0-1-2-12 are the ages would they be able to attend schooling there and is it right for us all year round if I was looking to buy a business e.g bar restaurant cafe or something else thanks in advance 👍
Following Coronavirus, sadly, there are going to be some businesses up for sale so the opportunity is there .... but it’s not an instant goldmine, it’s an awful lot of hard work and you have to ensure you make enough in peak season to carry you through the quieter off-season months.
That aside, only you can say whether it’s right for you all year round; the weather is certainly kinder and the lifestyle a lot more relaxed.
Your 12 year old is at an age where he / she would pick up the language and like many I have met who came to Spain around that age, be fully fluent and bilingual by adulthood - an absolutely amazing and wonderful thing for them. The other three would of course develop language skills naturally.
There is an international school not far from Mojácar in ummmm Puerto Rey? I recall, so no issues really with the 12 year old restarting school. The other three would just slip straight into the Spanish school system as they came of school age.
Normally advice is to come over, rent for a while, scope it out etc etc. but the clock is ticking now. So come over before 31/12, rent, get Residencia for you all ... and scope it out, see what it’s like in the off-season and make a decision based on what you can see for yourself instead of what you’ve been told.
The environment here is much better for raising kids I’d say. Whilst unemployment is higher here in Spain, after 10 years of legal residency you can apply for Spanish citizenship. That means your three youngest would be more than eligible by their eighteenth birthdays and your twelve year old would be able to do so by the age of 22 / 23 ... this then reopens the entire European Union to them as they’d have EU passports and be fully bilingual. A good position to be in.
