We've been in Spain for just over nine years now as OAPs. We have some good friends, but you must realise that social care in many countries, particularly the Mediterranean ones, is down to one's family. If you have no family here, the outlook as one ages is not rosy.
If/when we can sell our home here, we will be happy to be back in Britain, if only to be able to deal with health care problems in our own language, although I have to say that the care we have both received in the Hospital Costa del Sol in Marbella (Andalucian Health Service, NOT private), could not be bettered anywhere. Other parts of Spain are definitely not so good.
It will be nice to walk the streets , visit supermarkets and hear English spoken as the norm (yes- I know that automatically debars quite a few places in "multicultural" Britain).
Basically, as far as Spain is concerned we WILL miss the weather; we won't miss the stultifying bureaucracy and the almost complete lack of customer service, particularly from utility companies.
Been there, done that, got the tee shirt
(P.S. nice flat for sale!)
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