I only no peeps married to Spaniards, Spaniards and Expats on the CDS.Few expats I no do either business or socialising with Spaniards beyond general meeting in the street.Most Expat business use British clients.
One example on how each view each other.
Last week Jamie Oliver was cooking in Andalucia, at the moment Rick Stein is filming a new prog around Spain, I could go on.
When was the last time Spainish tv had a programme following Spanish cooks travelling around the UK.
Am I right in thinking that all these “less positive” views are shared by people who live amongst their own on the coasts? There seems to be an ever so slight trend to all this.
Sorry to wreck a great theory, but I am perfectly happy and positive to be living on the coast. Purists can sneer all they like about it’s not being ‘real Spain’, but we love the beach! And being part of a truly international community. I went to a pilates class recently which was instructed pretty even-handedly in 4 different languages, not many places you can say that, and I also love that everyone’s here because they chose to be. We can drive half an hour and be in mountaintop villages, but for the kids especially, living on the coast is great. Each to their own!
Am I right in thinking that all these “less positive” views are shared by people who live amongst their own on the coasts? There seems to be an ever so slight trend to all this.
Purists can sneer all they like about it’s not being ‘real Spain’,
BDP x
Sorry, Buenosdiaspet. It wasnt a sneer at people who are living on the Costas more a dig at the people who leave Britain behind to go and live within another community of Brits abroad and then wonder why its not quite what they had hoped.
No the apologies should be mine for overreacting to nerves previously irritated by other people not you! Live and let live I believe in, just find a lot of people can be highly judgemental about our choosing to live in a coastal resort.
We’re not all little Englanders sobbing into our Daily Mail’s about how the old country has gone to the dogs and why can’t this lot speak to us properly etc etc - though god knows I am very aware of the type. You’ll find all sorts on the coast if you look hard though,
I left the UK for several reasons, some to do with a crap govt, poor weather and also wanting my children to learn about there Spanish blood etc.
I was surprised how defensive I was when Spaniards agreed how crap the UK is, every time we ate it was as if they did not believe me when explained that we do actual eat prawns, fish and meat, there not unique and that our food isn’t curried, roasted or stir fried all the time and that we do actually have a culture, I guess I too them was another piece of evidence supporting the stereotype of us Brits in Spain.
It came as a complete surprise, suddenly finding I liked the country I left behind more than the one I thought was better.
My OH still finds it difficult to persued her friends that she actually prefers the UK to Spain and that we can and do eat Chorizo bought from our local supermarket (Morrisons) something incomprehensible to a Spaniard, to actually go into Eroski or Carrefour and buy a Cumberland sausage or eat a roast dinner.
When was the last time a Spaniard in a Spanish home sat down to a British Sunday roast, I bet its far less than Brits eating a Paella, after all you can buy packet Paella’s in almost all our food shops.
Thank you all for the comments, is very useful hearing both sides. As someone suggested, I had considered the option of investing into a business of some sort, but obviously don’t want to fall into the usual mistake of ” let’s move to Spain and buy a bar and we’ll be sorted”. Would need to think of something I’d be good at, but also something which would be in demand! Again being there 6 months first would give an opportunity to research that.
Thank you all for the comments, is very useful hearing both sides. As someone suggested, I had considered the option of investing into a business of some sort, but obviously don’t want to fall into the usual mistake of ” let’s move to Spain and buy a bar and we’ll be sorted”. Would need to think of something I’d be good at, but also something which would be in demand! Again being there 6 months first would give an opportunity to research that.
Buttas could you come down for few weeks and look around but dont tell any one in spain what your up two
are all the Looney out try to sell you somethink are some one , thinks are slow and bad here , lot out of jobs and the Native Speaker are going Nuts ... ha i been told by few off then to go home to Uk as your take up spanishs job ...
Yes, it seems to me that all the negative vibs come from the people living in the costas, for example where i live Granada province, beer and wine is still 1 euro, with free tapas!! The Spanish people are great, and i certainly have more Spanish freinds than english ones. I have learnt to speak the language and intigrate with the community,i suspect many on the cosatas have not and are still in their english communities looking for little britan in the sun! Yes finding jobs is difficult but if you are prepared to diversify and are prepared to learn the language you can make a go of it here.
popeye421 if there where star here i could give to u all , you got them .... communities looking for little britan in the sun! Priceless , negative vibs come from all over look at UK there want the non Native Speaker out ,
Yes, it seems to me that all the negative vibs come from the people living in the costas, for example where i live Granada province, beer and wine is still 1 euro, with free tapas!! The Spanish people are great, and i certainly have more Spanish freinds than english ones. I have learnt to speak the language and intigrate with the community,i suspect many on the cosatas have not and are still in their english communities looking for little britan in the sun! Yes finding jobs is difficult but if you are prepared to diversify and are prepared to learn the language you can make a go of it here.
Really? Beer/wine is still a euro with free tapas? Where is this magical place you speak of? 😊
Jurdy’s latest news shows unemployment around 10% in Euskera! Everyone move there, quickly, find these plentiful Basque jobs!
The credit agencies have reduced Spains credit rating today, not as much as Greece, yet, but many are predicting it.
The BBc tv “The One Show” featured today Expats in Southern Spain, interview a bar with a group of Expats returning to the UK, some interviewed had put money into bars and surprise, lost it all.
It seems the UK obsession with living the dream, in a country they can’t communicate in the language, in jobs they’d never do back home, believing that unlike the many thousands before them, they’ll be different.
Spain, the X Factor in the sun, many try, most fail.
