Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 11:35am
Hi, I live in Rambla de Oria- which is a rural area near a hamlet. Oria itself is a village rather than a town really. It is very very quiet. ( that might be a good thing for you, it is for me!. )The population is largely elderly. In the village itself you have the town hall, medical centre, sports centre, outside pool in summer school holidays, several small grocery stores, a bakery and a sunday veg market, petrol station, as well as a few bars. The countryside is mountains, surrounded by almond trees.
I have to warn you that it gets quite cold in winter- colder than other areas like Albox, Arboleas or towards the coast. I personally tend to use Albox , rather than Oria for most things and there is more going on there as well.
No problem with links to UK -Murcia or Almeria or Alicante...
But you do have to be prepared to do fair bit of driving in general around here, depending on what you want to do of course.
I cant see any problem with ex pats buying here at the moment.
Hope this helps
Good luck with your house search!
Jenny