15 May 2012 5:51 PM:
Hi Again,
My partner and myself have thought long and hard about what we want out of life and have decided it is not what we have at the moment, which is why we feel that Spain can offer us far more than a lot of other euro.countries. We are late 30s early 40s and both have health issues which we feel would benefit from living in a warmer climate.
What we are looking for is a small property with enough land to enable us to grow our own fruit and veg, keep chickens and possibly goats as we are unable to drink cow's milk - one of the problems we have. We are not idealists expecting Spain to be the golden goose and realised a long time ago that life has a habit of "biting you in the bum" , when you least expect it
We are looking at a possible move within the next 12 months to the Alhama de Granada and quite like the area around Zafarraya which seems to be fertile and possibly ideal for what we are looking to achieve or are there areas better suited to our proposed lifestyle.
At the moment we are looking to carry on with the work we do now, which is web related and gives us a reasonable income per year, we live quite frugally and would appreciate knowing what people feel about actual living costs - should we be looking at 1000/1500 euros per month, more - less, we have no idea, as we obviously need to keep the rainy day fund topped up as a provision fot the future, in case we cannot work.
Sorry to ramble on a bit, but any and all advice would be gratefully received.
Thanx Ben & Ness
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Moving to rural Spain.
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