The paperwork mountain now needed to live in Spain is not denting the desire of Britons for a life in the sun but only just! A Bulletin opinion poll suggests that more Britons want to live in Spain than those who don´t despite all the new difficulties following Britain´s withdrawl from the European Union.
Joys of living in Spain overcome Brexit paper mountain
Britons still want to move here
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SaraThanks Sara, some people seems having too much time on their hands. Ironic or not. Regarding special rules for UK citizens I totally object. Which other third nation should also have special agreements, US, Australia, countries in Asia, Africa, South America? Either it's for all or none. However UK is unfortunately a country who has one rule and ten exceptions, so it's bred into them, believing all rules and laws can be bent.
Ulla JacksonIf you’re referring to Morgan’s reply to me, he wasn’t correcting me, just being ironic. Many of his comments are.
Morgan WilliamsIts lovely with these "masters" that like to correct others, isnt it. Being picky might be your very own hobby. I assume your Spanish is just as fluent and correct as your English language.
Zoltan TeglasI will give you more than one advantage of Brexit… • David Cameron got a clear indication of how the public felt about him, his government and their policies • A certain group that still wanted to "stick it to the Germans" over old grudges got to do that… whether the Germans realised this or not is completely another matter • A small number of wealthy Brits got even wealthier… if you were one of this small group I'm happy for you, I'm significantly sadder for everyone else though • There are significantly fewer eastern Europeans in the UK that are talking jobs away from Brits… the fact that these jobs the Brits don't want to do let alone for the abusive pay is quite something different • Scotland may get another shot at an independence referendum on our lifetimes… something I never thought I would see • Reunification of Ireland has become more (although I cannot quantify that "more" really is) possible • I no longer have to listen to Nigel Farage forever more (this would be #1 on my own person list)
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me about all the advantages of Brexit. I've asked dozens of times but no one will tell me. There must be some? If not, 52% of the voters were either conned or just voted for something to make their lives worse.
"There are growing calls for Spain to sign a by-lateral agreement with Britain to overcome such hurdles as the 90-day rule and the issue of British driving licences not being valid for residents of Spain." Didn't Britain have all of this (I am assuming it was supposed to be "bilateral" instead of "by-lateral"… even if it was an autocorrect error I wonder how "by-lateral" even got into being a suggestion?!?!) before Brexit and directly chose to not want any of it by voting for Brexit? I am not surprised that Spain isn't interested in returning something that Britain picked up and simply tossed it into the trash for everyone.
Right, the number of registered Brits did not sink. However, the many people who dwelled under the radar, did not register, did not pay taxes, used the health service through the European Health Card, that number went down. At least, many of them are no longer here, or just their 90/180 days.
SaraFury and outrage. The most popular media in Britain thrives on it. And that explains volumes. Oh, and you need to learn proper English. Like "by-lateral" and using "there" instead of "their" ("There hole house was burnt"). Also, it's "Majorca". Get it right. Only foreigners spell it "Mallorca". Ever heard of "Colonia San Pedro"? I'll let you figure that one out on your own.
Here we go again!🤦🏼♀️ I think you are publishing these editorials on the very same topic deliberately so that you get lots of clicks which might increase your ad revenue. I can see no other reason for such repetition. The 90 day rule is an EU rule. Spain can’t just change it at their whim! Incidentally as far as I know the word is bilateral, not by-lateral, but I stand to be corrected.