TimGX wrote on Sun May 24, 2020 1:11pm:
Thank you for the responses, which are very helpful. As we feared, perhaps (or perhaps not!) Brexit could be the biggest spanner in the works. Being in Spain ahead of 31 December was always a long shot, even more so now with Covid 19. I think we'll have to wait and see what the new year brings, a...
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...lthough I'd still hope that we could follow our dream, if that's what we decide to do (no doubt with more red tape and a higher cost than it would have been pre-Brexit!).
With reference to a minimum income level of 27kE pa per person. That's unlikely for many, particularly those thinking of retirement. Instead of a minimum income requirement, is there an alternattive, minimum capital requirement (e.g. everyone must have 100kE in cash)?
Thanks again and take care.
I just wanted to add that concerning your teenage children, it would be very hard to I regrate here at this sort of age without speaking Spanish. Any friends they might make would be British and so they would certainly not pick up the language moving in a limited social group. The public transport to cities is very, very limited in this part of Spain too, so socializing off season would be grim for a lively, social young person. There is a great unemployed problem which will be worse in the aftermath of Covid 19. Many youngsters get into the wrong company in desperation to find their niche in the new society and will definitely be at a disadvantage if they don't understand what I'd going on around them. Think very hard before you decide on bringing your family to Spain.