Originally Posted by bil (Post 5900192)

I'm genuinely puzzled. If Oz is so crap, and the UK so good, why on earth did you go?

Serious question here, not taking the p*ss.

Originally Posted by bil (Post 5900246)

Hell, I have always thought they were unrealistic. I'm just sorry you got taken in by it all.

Do they paint a wonderful picture, or what? We sit there and cringe as you see people risk all to chase the sun in yet another fools errand.

You reckon I'll be back? Why is that?

Originally Posted by bil (Post 5900755)

No offence, but you got taken in by the con show. We are going there with a planned and reasoned approach applied over the last 5 - 10 years. I appreciate that it is no defence against the totally unpredictable, but it has got to be a hundred times better than wandering off with your mouth open, and your brains in a bag.


Yet you sit there and assure me that we will be back? Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 5900785)

I know people who have planned far more than that and fell short of Spanish crooks.........

Originally Posted by Backhomeatlast (Post 5900857)

You cant blame them with the easy pickings of Brits, you can spot them a mile away, they are the ones in shorts and out in the sun;)

Originally Posted by bil (Post 5900100)

I pay attention to the weather, because people were always telling me I exaggerated. So, being quite anal, I kept records, and no, I do not exaggerate. Obviously I live in a hellhole of bad weather and you are getting all my good weather.

Originally Posted by bil (Post 5898848)

Jojosan, trust me sweety, were I able, I would go today. I am only stuck here because I am being screwed over by the government who has instituted their own Valencian landgrab.

kelbelinoz says i know it can be dull in uk.

Thank you, at least one person who can actually look at the UK without the tinted specs.

There are some excellent things about the UK, like the multiculturism and the ability to go to restaurants of a dozen nationalities within 12 miles of my front door.

However the way people can overlook how dull, grey and tedious this place can be never ceases to amaze me. What is it? Self delusion? I talk to a lot of people and I never cease to be amazed by how many people say 'You'll be bored' 'You'll be back' with such obvious relish. It's as tho they are so poisonously envious of you escaping that the bile chokes them.

Every now and then you do get someone who says the equivalent of 'Run, Forrest, run!' and wishes you well in your escape, but they are rara aves indeed.

Jojosan, I hope you are happy here. If you are tho, why the comments? Choked with bile are we?? :D

Originally Posted by Backhomeatlast (Post 5899481)

Bil you do realise the dismal picture and the fact that reciprocal medical treatment in Spain, like France will soon be withdrawn for many expats, and those living outside the U.K without having an address in the U.K, will also be unable to claim National Health Service medical treatment when returning to the U.K.or many of these Brits who thought they had found their new promised land will not have the means or sufficient capital, even if they manage to sell their Spanish homes to return to the United Kingdom and purchase comparable properties to which they sold before leaving the U.K.

Will we see a reverse of past trends with Brits returning from the Costa's to the U.K and being forced to live with relatives and eventually become a burden on them? Some will not even be able to afford medical treatment or pay for the care in old age.
Will cost you a fortune for a family of 4

Originally Posted by Basil Brush (Post 5902146)

OMG...is this going to happen soon Backhomeatlast!!??
We hope to be back later in the year - will we be affected by this new NHS rule? :eek:

Originally Posted by alicecat (Post 5902162)

Yes, we are waiting out our 6 month wait to register with a doctor.