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Originally Posted by B.Barnato
Thank you, nice little summary there.
I noticed many places for sale are in gated communities, would that be advisable?
As the Costa Blanca area sounds a little off, any other areas that you could recommend that are warm all year round?
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Never been in Costa Blanca nor Valencia, but in general, Spain is a good place to live IF YOU HAVE MONEY. If you have your own income source and/or plan to provide jobs, they will receive you with open arms. Now, if you plan to take 1 euro off any of them... be ready for trouble.
On the legal side, they're annoying as hell, everything needs to be done 10 times, everything needs a new paper or a new sign or a photo of the Pope dancing the jota, so just save yourself headaches and hire a lawyer (some are very cheap and for common stuff you won't need much more than that) and they will do what you need... in 2 or 3 months. But at least it's 2 or 3 months you didn't waste.
Also, places close to sea tend to be more expensive and the interior of Spain is cheaper but can be hot as hell. But if that's not an issue, you can find nice villas and houses for little money.
A tip: there are a lot of old small towns that have no young people because they run away to bigger cities, so those towns are left with huge houses. If you go there, you can get a great big house AND become the king of the town since their inhabitants want people to live there. If you don't need the noise of cities, that's something you can look for, some of those towns are just 1 hour or less of big cities.
