The story of our move to Andalucia .... and our move back to the UK

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Sunday 11 November 2007

Research: Where do we start? On 't'internet of course!

These days everything you need to know about everything is on the internet, isn’t it? So, all we have to do is plug in the laptop, Google ‘moving to Spain’ and hey presto, we will have an idiots guide to help us on our way. Well, whilst that may seem an unrealistic expectation in reality it does give some good links to start browsing, such as properties for sale, ex-pats sites and sites giving advice on all aspects of relocating to Spain. Did this give us the guidance we were looking for? Not as such, but it did make us realise that there were a lot of questions we needed to answer about what we were looking for from our move to Spain so that we weren’t jumping from one idea to another and reaching a point where we were so confused we didn’t really know what we were trying to achieve.

So, our first task was to make a list of criteria our move to Spain needed to fulfil and here it is:
* Good golf (probably top of the list but not exactly a challenge in Spain)
* Warm dry weather (again, not too big a challenge for Spain)
* Somewhere typically Spanish (now this shouldn’t be too big a challenge)
* Within 30 minutes drive of the coast

Not exactly a massive list of requirements, so this should be relatively easy.

Narrowing down the area seemed a good place to start.

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