I recently came across some money and now have about £50,000 (64,000 Euro) in my bank account. I am considering (perhaps recklessly) moving to a cheap area of Spain and living off my savings to escape the monotony of office work in the UK. At a stretch this amount of money would last 3 years in a small flat in England (outside London, obviously). I assume big important cities like Barcelona and Madrid are most expensive. So a few questions:
1) Where will my money last the longest in Spain? (Where is cheapest to rent) 2) Will I be able to get by with low/intermediate Spanish? (I am NOT a complete novice, I am still learning) 3) How easy is it to get a job teaching English? (I have a shitty TEFL qualification) 4) Does this sound like a stupid idea? I hope after my money runs out in a few years I will have secured a job.
1. TOWNS of castilla...hellholes desu but very cheap 2.yes 3. i dont know 4.no. UK is a shithole. Is pretty normal yyou want to live in a country like spain.
Jose Morgan
some cities in the north(galicia for example) are very cheap too...you can rent a nice appartament for 300-350 euros.
Xavier Richardson
>tfw no money
Jacob Walker
You should buy an apartment. They are not very expensive there.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
If I can get one for as low as 40k euros, I will.
Blake Rivera
I don't think an englishman would want to move to Galicia when basically it has the same weather. Only summers are a better and they are a lotery. And unless he is from Wales or Scotland he would have to deal with more rain.
Julian Cruz
summmers are good here, and winters are less cold and raining that uk. in addition, he wants to stay in a cheap place, he didnt say anything about weather.
Grayson Morales
in some towns of galicia yes, you can buy an apartamment for 40-50k euros.
Nope, Galicia is by far more rainy than England, even Santiago is almost three times rainier than London and about the summers, last august was absolutely shit. Also, I have been to London many times and when I walked around wearig a shitt you could see everybody wearing jackets, it's not that cold unless you live in Coruña or Vigo that indeed have warmer winters.
Cooper Watson
Cool! I would prefer the south coast though, I thought this was the poorest (and therefore cheapest?) area of Span, Andalucia.
Josiah Edwards
Andalucía has a lot of tourism so properties are way more expensive.
Aiden Wilson
Just looking online, Valcenia looks pretty damn cheap:
why not madrid , bilbao or barcelona?.. i live in madrid and i want to live in barcelona because i am young and catalans they have many electronic festivals
Samuel Scott
The whole point is I want to live in the cheapest place I can find so long as it has running water and a couple of power sockets. No soy un hombre rico mi hermano.
Luke Flores
Then rent a flat.
Caleb Jenkins
not op but how do i get job in Spain and Spanish girlfriend?
Kayden Russell
by being anything but Spanish
Daniel Green
Not secure enough. If I buy I know it's mine forever (potentially). Is there property tax in Spain? If not I would have virtually no costs besides bills/food after buying a place.
Kayden Jones
this, unemployment is dropping but is not a good moment to come here....maybe in few years
John Bennett
>Is there property tax in Spain?
Yeah, it's called IBI, it's a percentage of the official value of the property. Then you have to pay other local tax, like water/waste collection taxes.
Liam Long
>not buying a house for peanuts in alpine slovenia
Colton Scott
>Slovenia
Charles Scott
How much approx. is it for a small apartment? I assume not very much.
Nolan Peterson
Yes
Andrew Gray
in my opinion slovenia is pretty good
Gabriel Walker
nice try Pedro you can't get rid of us so easily
Easton Lee
honestly here brits are top tier but your tourists are awful lad
Camden Harris
It's not much, around 350€ at most.
Christian Gonzalez
per year?
Bentley Wilson
350 € is really cheap, here in madrid +800€
Joshua Myers
month sry
Jeremiah Cooper
Yea, around 100 every semester in a village/small city and considering the piss poor flats he checked out I doubt he would pay more than 150 euros for the IBI.
I'm talking about local taxes.
Jackson Watson
Pedro,go to Gdansk (Poland)
Here you will pay a 240 euro per month for a 1-room flat with decent equipment.
Food will cost you around 150 euro per month
Fuck western europe,only Słowiańskie nations
Cooper Edwards
Literally the only problem with this is learning how to sczcszcscz.
Brayden Morgan
No problem, every young man in Gdansk is sprechen zie Englischen.
Did I mention that our girls lOVEs Espaniol torreadoros ? Since Euro 2012.
Jordan Bailey
>Did I mention that our girls lOVEs Espaniol torreadoros ?
our girls are so similar
Hunter Young
If you really want to get more bang for your buck why not just go to Asia or Latin America?
It's about a New York jewess who found a job in literally-where third-world Extremadura and loved it there.
> 1) Where will my money last the longest in Spain? (Where is cheapest to rent) By far in small inland towns. Forget big cities like Madrid or Barcelona if you want cheap rent. The coast is also full of speculation (and rich Britbongs who contribute to that speculation), but you may have luck if you look at less popular coastal towns, as long as it's not on the Balearic islands or whatever.
> 2) Will I be able to get by with low/intermediate Spanish? (I am NOT a complete novice, I am still learning) Yes, and if you go to a small town, people will have the patience to teach you and will likely be excited at the prospect of showing their local culture and gastronomy to a Britfag.
> 3) How easy is it to get a job teaching English? (I have a shitty TEFL qualification) I don't think there are a lot of native English teachers in small town Spain. The average Spaniard's level of English is abysmal.
> 4) Does this sound like a stupid idea? I hope after my money runs out in a few years I will have secured a job. It would be far more stupid to leave the South of Europe for the cold dark North in order to escape office work.
Jack Ortiz
>Did I mention that our girls lOVEs Espaniol torreadoros ? your country have skinheads, many spaniards have been attacked in poland recently...i love your country but i dont want to die
Dominic Morales
Can I live confortably in Poland with 5k Euros monthly ? What´s the price range of a flat in a city where language won´t be a barrier ?
Christopher Myers
people thinks that you are racist with us and girls treat us like a muslim
Sebastian Powell
>ser español con barba >todas las chicas son tuyas
Wyatt Martinez
This I like Poland but it seems you are now in full nazi mode, wich is not bad at all if its not against euro citizens.
Carson Richardson
Spanish people are racist to us white people and discriminate us because we burn in the sun
Ayden Foster
You can live like a king in 99% of the world with 5k€/month.
Michael Myers
No spanish guy I ever known would attack or socially isolate a white european because he burns in the sun lol
It's more like friendly banter if something
Dylan Bailey
>Spanish people are racist to us white people and discriminate us because we burn in the sun is funny lad.. dont balme meXD
Jayden Cooper
da fuck. you must have been in shitty place,like east Poland... dont go there,unless you want to die, silly pumpkin. Gdansk is a place for you You would live like a king here for only 1000 euro per month. In the main part of Gdansk,like Wrzeszcz or Oliwa .
Go find it yourself :) There are shit people everywhere in the world, Poland has it too,but I must say i feel comfy for living here.
Just going with my gf for a walk. We usually dont even close our doors ,its fuckin good place to live ( ofcourse there are some better and worse places in Gdansk.
Dont try to rent a flat in nowy port, orunia dolna or dolny wrzeszcz , everywhere else youre pretty secure and based
Wyatt Cook
Only brits burn for some reason, scandis get orange.
Nolan Watson
a friend told me spanish people have some kind of yearly rite in spring in which they profess there love to the sun god in order for really hot summers, that keep sun burning whiteys away
Ayden Ortiz
It's just banter bro, you may tease us about Gibraltar or something
Oliver Barnes
...
Luke Brown
kek, 6. it's so fucking true, barbarians truly don't know how to properly drink alcohol
William Bennett
>i will move to lithuania , soon lad ... i want a white gf
Angel Russell
fucking racists
Wyatt Sanchez
This is stupid, anyway, and untrue. Most Spaniards, at least in my region, will get sunburns if they don't use the protection cream.
The problem with tourists is that they come here very pale (and we are already more or less toasted. We live here, you know :/ ), and many of them don't use protection and spend hours on the sun. They just don't know what they are dealing with.
Cameron Stewart
>Catalans >white I've seen the barcelona team you charlatan
Ian Brown
There are a lot of foreigners in the FC Barcelona. And even if they were locals, I don't see how a football team represents 7 million people (or about 3, if you only take in account the "pure" natives)
Nicholas Nelson
>xavi >fabregas >white
Samuel Perry
yeah, ok, those are a little bit swarthoid. But It's always a matter of cherrypicking.
Look, I don't get where are you trying to get to. Are you some butthurt friegaplatos?
Mason Hughes
no not really it's just bants
Parker Ramirez
al punto
Evan Wright
i like you
t. madrileño
Michael James
>Are you some butthurt friegaplatos? probably, he is...london is full of them
