19 Nov 2017 3:22 PM:

Thanks for your replies, much appreciated.  Acer - excuse my ignorance but why have friends moved back to UK?  If they first lived in the countryside, once it became more sensible to live in town, could they not sell and move within Spain?  Is it so hard to re-sell a country property?  One of my (many) concerns are stories of people moving back to the UK once they become older and slightly infirm, perhaps needing more medical/care support - is this absolutely not available in Spain, or is it prohibitively expensive?  We know that we need to make provision for private medical insurance as part of our budget but will this not be enough once one or both of us becomes decrepit?!

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19 Nov 2017 11:18 AM:

My partner (64 yo semi-retired charterd accountant) and myself (55 yo administrator) have been investigating moving to sunnier climes once my son has gone to Uni in about 2 years.  We would be looking to take the plunge, leave the UK with our 3 dogs and move to Southern Spain, living off our various state and private pensions.  I have been researching and researching and understand that some people have made the move with unrealistic expectations - I want to try to avoid this.  We think we want to move to inland Andalucia - probably Malaga province but I am getting more and more concerned about living anywhere that requires a 10+ minute drive to the nearest small town with medical facilities.  Gratefully looking for advice and suggestions about what type of property and whereabouts we should be looking.  We had thought of a country house with some land but with good road access - in an ideal world this would be within walking distance of a village but this seems to be extremely hard to find.  Whilst we are learning to speak Spanish, we would like to be somewhere we can find other Brits too.  We know we don't want to live on an urbanization which will be like a ghost town out of the holiday season.  Are there ever village houses with gardens/land like you get in the suburbs in the UK???  Thanks for your help.  Deb

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