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arty zan said:
Very true Elle but a language barrier can be over come.
In the north of Spain they have a thing where they get together English speakers and spanish speakers and you talk Spanish for half an hour and then speak English for half an hour.
This way you get to know the peopl in your area and everyone learns a new language.
I wish I could remember what the the name of this system is called.
The Spanish are eager to learn English but in the Canaries I think thing are a little different to main land Spain.

The monetary barrier in the UK is harder to over come, i will never be able to afford the land i want to buy in the UK, unless i win the lottery.
In Spain I could but brexit may shelve that for me.
A small holding is something i have dreamed of for a long time .
I haven't got a problem with hard work or being skint and there is also Teaching english as a foreign language (Toefl) I also have other transferable skill too!
I have looked around and there is some nice plots of land for virtually nothing, you have to make sure you get proper legal advice and make sure there arent any covenants restricting you to what you can do or who you can sell it too.

Did you know that there are over 1000 deserted villages in Spain?
After the Franco, the people left the hills and headed for the bright lights and money that could be earned in cities.
Now the Spanish are are leaving Spain to work abroad, so there are a lot of properties, just needing some love and attention to be bought for a really good price.

Here is a video about a Spanish Eco Village , please have a look, you never know what is possible until you know the lie of the land.
These people clubbed together and made a wonderful place to live, why not other people doing the same?

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Yeah way to go Elle, quote a post then don't type anything LOL I'll BRB

We wanted to do an eco-village type thing in the UK but the problems were quite large - planning and finding reliable people to commit being the biggest. I'd still try it, if I had a group of like-minded friends but our actual circle of friends (people we've actually met) is ridiculously small and no-one has the same interests that we do. It's been like this for YEARS literally.. And with solar so much cheaper now it makes it easier.

If we sold now, we could just afford a smallholding but it would leave no surplus and bills still have to be paid. If we wait 12-15 months we may have an effect from improved transport links and see a jump in value.

We wanted to bring the kids up in the countryside, so they had the same sort of places to play as we did ourselves, but just couldn't reach it where we wanted to be. So they grew up on the edge of London instead. It hasn't harmed them, but one would like to grow his own food, one is capable of looking after chickens and the other one... completely citified and a lost cause I think LMAO. We've grown fruit and veg, and kept chickens since 1996. We only parted with the last ones because we were coming out here and I didn't think the kids were quite ready to deal with full responsibility (e.g. there might have been some neglect or forgetting to shut the hens up one night which would have been disastrous) so we passed them on to someone else.

PM me if you like Arty, perhaps we have a bit more common ground than just weed!
 
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Jraven said:
Very interesting idea on a cold winter day!
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I think i should point out it can get cold in the North of Spain too as this story from 2015 shows.
Winter conditions are usually as bad as this but it does snow in the mountains in northern spain.
  • Snow traps over 200 motorists in Spain
  • 5 February 2015
Spanish emergency services have rescued at least 220 people trapped by snow on roads in northern Spain.

Hundreds of cars were stuck for up to 17 hours overnight on roads between Cantabria and the province of Palencia.

Local media report temperatures of -15C (5F) and up 40cm (1.3ft) of snow.

Around 100 British expats and tourists were among those trapped. Spanish police rescued several stranded in their vehicles shortly after arrival in Santander by ferry from Portsmouth.

Many had come to Spain hoping for a warm-weather holiday, but ended up having to spend the night in the sports hall of a local school and the dining room of a hotel.

The country is in the middle of a cold spell that is expected to worsen over the next three days, with cold weather alerts issued for 20 provinces.
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Spain's national weather service said in a statement (in Spanish) that the unusually cold temperatures would last until next Tuesday.

The BBC's Tom Burridge in Madrid says that a large area of central Spain has seen an unusually high amount of snowfall in recent days.

One British woman, Jackie Elford of Margate, told the BBC she was driving to Marbella with her husband Roger when they were caught in heavy snow along with dozens of other motorists.

They were rescued at 03:30 (02:30 GMT) on Thursday, and spent the night on the floor of a hotel dining room in the village of Reinosa as there were no rooms available.

The couple have managed to book a room in the same hotel for Thursday night, but face postponing their journey south by one more day as the inclement conditions persist.

Abandoned cars and overturned lorries have piled up on main roads near Santander.

Spanish police said that dozens of military vehicles and snow ploughs are being used to clear the area.

Local media said that many schools in northern Spain had been closed and that there had been numerous power cuts.

El Pais newspaper reports that at least four towns in the region of Cantabria were still without power on Thursday.

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Meanwhile, in Catalonia, winds of over 120km/h (75mph) have disrupted railway services.

Snowfall has also closed roads as far south as in Andalucia.

The freezing conditions are set to continue for several days, with the coldest temperatures expected on Saturday and Sunday, warned the national weather service.
 
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