Happy camposoler

Have any of you been to Camposol, I don't think so. It's not near the sea, it is built in the middle of some stunning countryside, only a few house have problems, as stated in the programme, and the majority of the residents are happy with their lot. Quite frankly I would rather stick pins in my eyes than come and live back in a war zone, have you been watching the news, we have

jackytoo

Camposol looked pretty grim from the pics I saw. Fortunately some of us have a choice between the paella pan and the fire

johnnyone

Please get a grip.
I don't care whether Camosol is the best place on earth, but London is not a war zone. I am sittting in my conservatorry in East London enjoying the sunshine.

sithering

What? You mean it isn't EXACTLY as it is being portrayed on the TV?

I don't believe it......

johnnyone

I made no comment about Camosol as a place yet you choose to desribe London as a war zone. Why?

Lynn R

I hope the excellent facilities in Camposol include a branch of Specsavers - anyone who thinks it looks anything like a whitewashed Spanish village needs to get down there sharpish!

sithering

So let me get this straight- the current TV News portrayal of the UK as having descended into violence and chaos is wrong, but you are willing to accept the 'Homes From Hell' programme as gospel?

Would someone care to explain why some of you think it is reasonable to pass what you appear to regard as authoritative judgement on a place you've never actually seen? All I and a few others are attempting to do is to put our side of the story, as we consider that ITV have got it wrong. The clue is in the thread title.

@johnnyone : please re-read the posts, the line about London being a war zone was posted by someone else, not me.

macki62000

Well, here I am reading all of the above and pleased to see many of my neighbours and friends putting the story straight on the real Camposol. As a matter of interest in my small calle alone there are five different nationalities, including Spaniards who are helping us learn the local language and culture. They are one family of many Spanish families who have now chosen Camposol as their home. Says it all really. The houses are individual and mixed up large and small. It has no apartments, all houses. We have a fantastic community spirit. As they say, one man's meat is another man's poison. However I do think it is a bit off altogether to make a detrimental comment on somewhere you have never visited. There have been one or two problems but these are being addressed as mentioned by the new local ayuntamiento. My husband, my family and myself all love Camposol. We have had a house there for the past four years and see the whole area beginning to blossom. Come and see for yourself.

agoreira

Really nice to see so many new members taking the trouble to join simply to tell us what a fabulous place Camposol is! Welcome aboard, look forward to all your future posts.

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megmet

You get first prize there for the understatement of the year!

You may well love it there and have a beautiful home, but others have not been so lucky, their experiences on Campasol have been as dire as yours has been good.
Yes the TV program highlighted the faults, one would expect that to be the case as it was what the program was made to do, no doubt in the hope of stopping others falling into that deadly trap.

I go along with the OP, by no stretch of the imagination can this urbanisation be compared to a Spanish village, that's a preposterous notion!
It's just a collection of houses packed as tightly together as the developer could get away with, they are packed together like sardines and anyone not believing that can take a look on Google Earth for conformation, they can also see on there the landscape and how the complex is far away from being finished.

Each to their own, but you couldn't pay me to live there!

HBG

I didn't see the programme about Camposol, but switched around a bit last night to get away from the UK riots. I found a programme on ITV which reported the Prior case again, another injustice over Spanish bank guarantees and how expat residents in Parcent managed to overturn their council's intention to replace a nearby hill with a housing developement, the residents losing half their gardens along the way and having to pay for the privilege.

Those things happened and need to be reported, to prevent future expats buying 'homes from hell'.

As for the touching gesture of a few residents of Camposol writing in as new members to defend their place in the sun; it's perfectly natural. We all do it about the places we live in.

I regularly defend my place which a lot of people describe as pretty awful, and I must admit that on many occasions I agree with them and my pen wobbles as I try and write the place up. If I told the truth I might be pursued by a lynch mob. I hope the good citizens of Camposol have no such fears.

noelrosie

I saw that program and was particularly interested in the first couple, who bought a plot near Pego to put a log cabin on, which was sold to them by a Finnish woman. When it turned out that the land was 'agricultural' she told them the log cabin could be delivered to another plot near la Xara which also turned out to be 'non-residential', despite having a number of similar wooden houses on it. Of course by this time the Finnish woman had returned to Finland ...
Interesting that they had been scammed by another expat, when everybody tends to assume its only the Spanish legal system that can steal people's retirement hopes and dreams and get away with it.

sithering

Surely no-one actually believes that ITV makes these kind of programmes in the interests of prospective purchasers? That's like saying the X Factor is a genuine talent show....not just a money-making exercise. This isn't public service broadcasting, it's a company trying to make money!

I and other posters are not so much concerned about defending where we live as telling the truth- something ITV did not do.

The structual problems the programme referred to are real, but to put it into perspective this has happened to about 0,5% of the total build. I agree it is still 0,5% too much, but the programme appeared to suggest it affected the whole development, which is ever so slightly inaccurate;0) There are a handful of owners with serious problems, and my heart goes out to them, but there are also a number of other developments in this region (built by different developers) that have serious issues for one reason or another.

I naturally understand that many people would not want to live in close proximity to their neighbours, in which case an urbanisation is totally unsuited to them. We chose our home carefully as my wife is disabled and has very poor mobility, so for us it was essential to go for a one-size-fits-all solution. We have friends here who live in small Spanish villages, some miles out in the Campo, and one or two on the local campsites. None of these would have been possible for us.

@megmet It is obvious from your stated location that you are one of those people who likes wide open spaces, so why do you feel the need to justify your opinion by deliberately referring to an aerial photograph which is at least four years old? It does you no credit at all.

agoreira

Quite true, but all services seemed to be connected there, they lived there quite happily for 2 years, how come they were allowed to erect and connect up all the dwellings there if it was all illegal. Even though they admitted it wasn't "completely legal yet" I'm always a bit confused as to how people can simply erect chalets, build houses on land that hasn't planning permission. At best, someone in authority must have been turning a blind eye, you couldn't miss them, they were there for years.