09 Jun 2012 3:36 PM:

We came over at 55 and 56 expecting free healthcare and then 6 months later they said it was stopping.  We now have private which costs us about 1800 euros a year which, of course we did not budget for. We are now 61 and 60. There does not appear to be hardly anything in the way of "after care" and there is no work. It costs 270 euros a quarter to pay into the spanish healthcare system for early retirees which is more expensive for us than private. There is one little Alzheimers place in Torrevieja and the brits do help the charity a lot. We would certainly not want to still be here in our late 70's/80's although I suppose healthcare and after care in the UK by then might be a lot worse than it is now.

Thread: moving my mother to spain

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