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Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Sep 14th 2012, 10:30 am
Replies: 30
Views: 3,601
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Did you have to take a financial hit to return to the UK?

I usually post on the Spanish forum but have a big problem with all the expats over there who will not have a bad word said about Spain, seems like if you are leaving USA or Australia there is a lot...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 8:35 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

Yes a nice story, not sure what it has to do with the topic but I wish the poster well here in the land of cuddly and friendly locals, where the sun always shines and the skies are blue, nobody has a...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 5:47 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

Mr. Know it All to the rescue once more, oh how I wish I had your brains, what a man! First of all I live next to Plaza Universidad just off Ronda Sant Antoni, it's become very fashionable akin to...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 2:29 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

Thank God somebody else on here who dares to tell the truth about the Spanish way - every time I have spoken to an official or policeman about a legal issue they always reply "Espain is eh-different"...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 9:57 am
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

This is tragic and I am sympathetic as it is hard to deal with this, I am realistic and am now thinking of pulling out all stops to sell now as the rental income would not be enough for me to live in...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 9:28 am
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

Thanks for this but I have already done all this, but I appreciate your advice which for once on here seems genuine and helpful. Believe it or not, I use this as a last resort when i have tried all...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 9:16 am
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

I have worked for several employers here as you know. I have worked for English, French, Spanish, Catalan, French, Japanese, few of them were above board even when I had a legal contract so you see...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 8:21 am
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

PS Cricketman, I worked for a Catalan family here for 2 years, they ran an apartment rental business and I worked with greedy Catalan property owners, all of them wanted cash payments and one women...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 8:15 am
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

It seems you always know someone don't you??!! Well, I also know Spanish here to don't pay tax, always offer invoices without VAT and Barcelona is full of immigrants anyway, the Catalans have always...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 8:13 am
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

I wondered when you would surface. Don't be so patronising, I am one of the few here who actually has Spanish blood, not just a born again lording it here. I don't hate Spain, I don't like aspects of...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 7:59 am
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

I have not said taxes should not be paid but if you live in Spain you should know the attitude here compared to the UK. How dare you tell me to decide what I should be, there are a lot of pompous...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2012, 7:54 am
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

That is not what i said at all. In the UK I always paid my taxes, everything was legal it was not until I came to this mafia like country when I realised how most people think, and I include Spanish...
Forum: Spain
Sep 12th 2012, 9:23 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: best way to rent out flat in Spain

I have posted before about my work situation and that my boss who employs me has not given me a contract, yet I am not self employed, this is why I am leaving as I have been in this situation before...
Forum: Spain
Sep 12th 2012, 8:56 pm
Replies: 50
Views: 6,382
Posted By pain-in-spain

best way to rent out flat in Spain

Hi, I am currently in the throws of finding a long term tenant for my flat in Barcelona, I have tried to sell it for the last two years and it's now an impossibility unless I sell for what we paid...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Sep 5th 2012, 9:21 am
Replies: 26
Views: 3,261
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: London: anyone going, gone back?

Hi, I've been living in Barcelona for a decade and have wanted to move back for years now! What I hadn't counted on was missing London so very much, it's come in waves but has never gone away and now...
Forum: Spain
Sep 4th 2012, 8:06 am
Replies: 72
Views: 8,222
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Health care reform

Yes, well remembered! I have been in the black economy periodically as have many Spanish nationals I know, as well as those forced to be self employed who work for one employer, both illegal. I have...
Forum: Spain
Sep 3rd 2012, 9:34 pm
Replies: 72
Views: 8,222
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Health care reform

That old one! It's perfectly obvious that families with numerous children, mostly those with the lowest or non existent incomes or single mothers (as is the way of the UK) are churning out kids for...
Forum: Spain
Sep 3rd 2012, 6:45 pm
Replies: 72
Views: 8,222
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Health care reform

Yes thanks, I did, this is what it says about who can access the sanitary card - it's for affiliated workers (employed/ self employed), those subscribed to the social security system and unemployed...
Forum: Spain
Sep 3rd 2012, 5:46 pm
Replies: 72
Views: 8,222
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Health care reform

I see that countries are very different which is yet another argument to get out of EU and its currency, but that's another topic. I came here due to my Spanish family and have met many expats who...
Forum: Spain
Sep 3rd 2012, 5:12 pm
Replies: 72
Views: 8,222
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Health care reform

Yes, I agree. When I bought my flat I paid a lot in taxes and if I am lucky to sell it (it will take a miracle!) I will be paying even more taxes which the government will take happily.

My...
Forum: Spain
Sep 1st 2012, 5:00 pm
Replies: 72
Views: 8,222
Posted By pain-in-spain

Health care reform

Hi, I am still here in Barcelona with continued plans to move back to London. I and my partner are residents, moved her 10 years ago and own our flat (which we desperately want to sell or rent). We...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Aug 10th 2012, 1:34 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 1,159
Posted By pain-in-spain

crunch time Spain vs UK

Hi everyone
I've been in Barcelona 10 years now and pretty much from year 3 or 4 have been planning a move back to London, everyone knows how the world (especially Europe) has changed for the worse...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2012, 2:56 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 7,006
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Employer abuse in Spain

Thanks Dom. My basic is 1200 euros plus a percentage of revenue, it is a proper fixed and full time salary with my hours and work place dictated by the boss, I am 100% employed, not self employed. If...
Forum: Spain
Jul 9th 2012, 11:38 am
Replies: 52
Views: 7,006
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Employer abuse in Spain

As the OP of this thread which goes back a couple of months now, I thought I would write an update and thank all of you who contributed at the time.

I decided to wait and see what happened with my...
Forum: Spain
May 15th 2012, 7:14 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 7,006
Posted By pain-in-spain

Re: Employer abuse in Spain

As usual with these threads, things get a bit off topic, although it's all been interesting reading and good to see other's views. As the OP I felt it necessary to update any of you interested. I...
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