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Forum: Spain
Sep 15th 2010, 3:36 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,638
Posted By jollyjack

Re: moving to Spain

And another thing Rotor: My house has been here about 200 years and it hasn`t been "grabbed" yet. Unless they grab the whole street my house is going nowhere. And Mrs Escriva next door just...
Forum: Spain
Sep 15th 2010, 3:34 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,638
Posted By jollyjack

Re: moving to Spain

Sez you.

Have you been here?

Having lived in Andalucia I wouldn`t go back there again. I have not been to the areas you mention so I can`t comment.

And of course it depends on what you mean...
Forum: Spain
Sep 15th 2010, 8:16 am
Replies: 20
Views: 16,260
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Anyone live in Ontinyent or know much about it?

I wandered lonely as a cow,
De-dum-de-dum...............:(
Forum: Spain
Sep 15th 2010, 6:25 am
Replies: 16
Views: 1,638
Posted By jollyjack

Re: moving to Spain

I suppose its a pretty average small Spanish town. But there is always something going on, virtually every weekend there is something. The Town Bands are very good and very active. The guy who...
Forum: Spain
Sep 14th 2010, 6:07 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,638
Posted By jollyjack

Re: moving to Spain

Its got 3 beds, 3 baths, 2 terraces and a really big patio with trees and a pond and a Bar so I don`t think its too bad really.:)
Forum: Spain
Sep 14th 2010, 3:25 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,638
Posted By jollyjack

Re: moving to Spain

And what reason would that be?

If it is locality I much prefer Valencia to the CDS.
Forum: Spain
Sep 14th 2010, 1:56 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 1,638
Posted By jollyjack

Re: moving to Spain

150,000 but then we added another bedroom, bathroom and terrace, put in a new kitchen and bathroom etc. And then the crisis came and here we are. 170,000 is probably realistic whereas before the...
Forum: Spain
Sep 14th 2010, 10:28 am
Replies: 16
Views: 1,638
Posted By jollyjack

Re: moving to Spain

There is also finance to be considered. Property prices in some areas are HUGELY different from others. If my house here in Valencia Province was in the Costa Del Sol it would be worth about...
Forum: Spain
Sep 14th 2010, 7:35 am
Replies: 20
Views: 16,260
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Anyone live in Ontinyent or know much about it?

While I am on the subject: Does anyone know if there is a bookshop that sells English language books? Or a theatre group of any kind?:confused:
Forum: Spain
Sep 14th 2010, 7:27 am
Replies: 48
Views: 3,697
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Crisis? Increase of 4.5% tourists in July

getting back to the original topic....

"Why?" I hear you say.

Well, getting back to the original topic....I was In Benidorm on Friday and it was dead as a duck - bars and beach.

Mind you its...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2010, 8:57 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,079
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Long lets

Hi Juliet.
There are many places now where you can rent with an entitlement to buy later if you choose. If you did that then your rent-money would not be wasted as it would go against the purchase...
Forum: Spain
Sep 13th 2010, 8:38 am
Replies: 20
Views: 16,260
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Anyone live in Ontinyent or know much about it?

Thanks for the info Snikpoh (love the pseudonym by the way)! Ontinyent sounds very much like what we are after. We go out every night and where we are is a bit restrictive. Its the same old faces...
Forum: Spain
Sep 12th 2010, 4:55 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 16,260
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Anyone live in Ontinyent or know much about it?

If we do move to Ontinyent the house will be No. 7 we have lived in. Don`t want to rent and anyway we have two cats which complicate things.

What I am really after are people`s feelings about...
Forum: Spain
Sep 12th 2010, 3:03 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 16,260
Posted By jollyjack

Smile Anyone live in Ontinyent or know much about it?

My wife and I are thinking about moving house (as we seem to do about every few years. We have been in Spain for nearly 17 years now. We are near Gandia, Valencia, at the moment and are wondering...
Forum: Spain
Sep 6th 2010, 9:44 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 3,516
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Casa Mata and other estateagentspeak..!

Wel atico usually means Penthouse apartment in my experience.

But we have always lived in old townhouses. We are living in Spanish Townhouse number 7 at the moment. We have been in Torrox, Velez...
Forum: Spain
Sep 6th 2010, 9:19 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 3,516
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Casa Mata and other estateagentspeak..!

I suspect (after 10 years in Andalucia that casamata is an Andaluz word stemming from the same place we get our old word "casemate" which was part of the defensive structure of a castle.

What a...
Forum: Spain
Sep 3rd 2010, 6:06 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,085
Posted By jollyjack

Re: Please help - Trying to trace Father

There is a freebie magazine which is distributed in the Torrox area it is called the Marketplace www.themarketplace-spain.com/ You could try putting an announcement in that. it is very well read in...
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