HI,
WE ARE SERIOUSLY THINKING OF MOVING TO SPAIN, MAYBE THE VALENCIA REGION. WE HAVE TWO CHILDREN AGED 10 AND 8 AND THIS IS OUR ONLY SERIOUS WORRY IS THE SCHOOLS. THEY HAVE MINIMAL USE OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE SO WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE VERY UNFAIR TO PUT THEM INTO A SPANISH SCHOOL, ALSO CONSIDERING OUR 10 YEAR OLD WILL PROBABLY BE GOING INTO SECONDARY SCHOOL ONCE ALL THE RED TAPE HAS BEEN SORTED. ARE THE PRIVATE SCHOOL VERY EXPENSIVE ??
THE SECOND WORRY, NOT AS BAD, IS THAT MY HUSBAND IS A GAS ENGINEER AND WOULD LIKE ADVICE ON WHETHER IT WOULD ONLY BE THE EX-PATS USING HIS SERVICES OR WHETHER THE SPAINISH WOULD USE HIM AS WELL. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING INTO MAYBE A BOILER MANUFACTURER OVER THERE EMPLOYING HIM, WHICH WOULD BE EASIER. ANY ADVICE ON THESE SUBJECTS WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED.
Jun 14, 2007 · Linka
Hi
My partner I and two teenage children moved to The costa Blanca this time last year. My boys go to an international school called The Lady Elizabeth In the Jalon Valley. (About an hour from Velencia) It costs about ?5.500 per child per year. There are lots of hidden costs, Like expensive school trips and you also have to pay for books and if you want to use the school bus its quite expencive, but it is still much cheaper than private school in England. The standard of teaching is fairly good and the class sizes much smaller than in England, about 18-20 a class. My children are very happy in the school and have made a large amount of friends from around the world. The classes follow the nation Curriculum .
As for your Husbands work, Gas is different here, you don't have main line gas.(well not were we live anyway) Its all bottled and you have a gas house and the gas is pumped from there. When it runs out you ring them and they bring you five more bottles. As for getting work with Spanish people our experience has shown that its unlikle as the Spanish tend to employ each other. I can only speak for our town, Moraira, but it seems that its quite hard to find work, as there are a lot of English people with the same skills trying to get jobs. Having said that, there are a lot of English people in the area so You never know. My In laws are trying to get a business going doing Gardening, painting, pool cleaning, change overs, that sort of thing. They have an advert running every week in the local paper and it seems that very slowly they are starting to get some work. They go and quote for lots of jobs and are quite cheap but they don't get that many of them, the competition is high. Anyway, good lucka nd if I can help in any way let me know.
My partner I and two teenage children moved to The costa Blanca this time last year. My boys go to an international school called The Lady Elizabeth In the Jalon Valley. (About an hour from Velencia) It costs about ?5.500 per child per year. There are lots of hidden costs, Like expensive school trips and you also have to pay for books and if you want to use the school bus its quite expencive, but it is still much cheaper than private school in England. The standard of teaching is fairly good and the class sizes much smaller than in England, about 18-20 a class. My children are very happy in the school and have made a large amount of friends from around the world. The classes follow the nation Curriculum .
As for your Husbands work, Gas is different here, you don't have main line gas.(well not were we live anyway) Its all bottled and you have a gas house and the gas is pumped from there. When it runs out you ring them and they bring you five more bottles. As for getting work with Spanish people our experience has shown that its unlikle as the Spanish tend to employ each other. I can only speak for our town, Moraira, but it seems that its quite hard to find work, as there are a lot of English people with the same skills trying to get jobs. Having said that, there are a lot of English people in the area so You never know. My In laws are trying to get a business going doing Gardening, painting, pool cleaning, change overs, that sort of thing. They have an advert running every week in the local paper and it seems that very slowly they are starting to get some work. They go and quote for lots of jobs and are quite cheap but they don't get that many of them, the competition is high. Anyway, good lucka nd if I can help in any way let me know.