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Forum: Spain
Aug 19th 2025, 6:31 pm
Replies: 16
Views: 2,331
Posted By rspltd

Re: Fancy this on your doorstep?

The difference in the bull sculpture in Birmingham to those that are in Spain. Is that it reflects English history whereas the bulls in Spain are drawing attention to what is a sad reality. I still...
Forum: Spain
Nov 24th 2024, 7:41 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 3,392
Posted By rspltd

Re: Why gaining residency in Spain has never been easier

So I wonder how long after obtaining residency they are allowed to freely move to other EU countries and where might they go? Had the U.K. still be in the EU I might have hazarded a guess!
Forum: Spain
Oct 8th 2024, 7:13 pm
Replies: 40
Views: 3,766
Posted By rspltd

Re: End of the printed boarding card is nigh

You are it!,
Forum: Spain
Sep 15th 2024, 7:32 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 5,200
Posted By rspltd

Re: Advice needed for move

Very few countries allow you to travel to them or indeed to live in them without additional requirements. Indeed when the U.K. was still in the EU it was necessary to show your passport to enter...
Forum: Spain
Aug 24th 2024, 7:39 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,804
Posted By rspltd

Re: Any tip? selling in Spain, transfer euros to UK

Some time ago now so things may have changed but I took the Notary’s cheque to a bank who opened an account for me. ( Pre arranged). Paid it in and then transferred it to Currencies Direct. Closed...
Forum: Spain
Aug 6th 2024, 7:53 pm
Replies: 46
Views: 4,368
Posted By rspltd

Re: Hola!

I always have a wry smile when posts such as this appear. Don’t misunderstand me, the responses are often very helpful. And go some way to filling in the gaps. However, to my mind, they always...
Forum: Spain
Aug 3rd 2024, 7:11 pm
Replies: 202
Views: 14,223
Posted By rspltd

Re: Starmer hatches new free movement plot with Spain

The report by Oxford Economics much beloved by people on both sides of the arguments has been discredited by a number of learned authorities for its triteness, and lack of comprehensiveness. This...
Forum: Spain
Jul 19th 2024, 7:49 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 5,494
Posted By rspltd

Re: Moving to Spain - Where to Start?

. Starter is inherently stupid but even he is not that stupid.
Forum: Spain
Jul 19th 2024, 7:47 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 5,494
Posted By rspltd

Re: Moving to Spain - Where to Start?

As usual lot’s of helpful ( administrative) answers but I am surprised why no one has questioned why the poster would want to live Spain or come to that anywhere else. Weather? Perceived lifestyle?...
Forum: Spain
Jul 17th 2024, 6:37 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 2,690
Posted By rspltd

Re: Declaring UK savings interest

The HMRC call line is used by all including businesses and tax advisors? If you pick your times carefully, early in the morning, over lunch hours or just before going home time, you can get through...
Forum: Spain
Jun 22nd 2024, 6:25 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 2,628
Posted By rspltd

Re: We need to use more electricity!

In a word - no! Because it doesn’t seem to be. This is the latest figures issued this month

Price

Day. Month Year Date
UK Electricity...
Forum: Spain
Jun 16th 2024, 7:33 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 2,628
Posted By rspltd

Re: We need to use more electricity!

It is even more bizarre than that. According to analysis by energy technology company Axle Energy, using publicly available data from the electricity system's balancing market platform Elexon, in...
Forum: Spain
Mar 11th 2024, 8:05 pm
Replies: 39
Views: 10,653
Posted By rspltd

Re: Water restrictions starting.

I hope that was a sarcastic comment.

Because it wont make a jot of difference. Tourists will be unaffected even though the hotels are the biggest wasters
I thought the biggest wasters of water...
Forum: Spain
Feb 28th 2024, 6:39 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 1,436
Posted By rspltd

Re: The world’s most tree-friendly city

I think it would be fairer to say ‘a’ tree city rather than ‘ the’ tree city although it is an excellent achievement. Just to put
some context, 21 U.K. cities also received the title and 5...
Forum: Spain
Feb 22nd 2024, 7:21 pm
Replies: 156
Views: 27,955
Posted By rspltd

Re: GIBRALTAR 2024

The whole report is littered with could’s, might’s, maybe’s and possibles. Just a computer model entering the world of fantasy.
Forum: Spain
Feb 19th 2024, 6:38 pm
Replies: 30
Views: 8,178
Posted By rspltd

Re: Completing the Tasa 790/052 from the UK for a Visa

I don’t know the process but I would be staggered if you didn’t’ have to make another appointment . It wouldn’t be Spain otherwise would it?
Forum: Spain
Feb 17th 2024, 6:40 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 4,366
Posted By rspltd

Re: Spanish boarder issues with Gibraltar

Good headline but not strictly accurate. The right still exists albeit with different strings attached.
Forum: Spain
Feb 16th 2024, 7:45 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 4,366
Posted By rspltd

Re: Spanish boarder issues with Gibraltar

I assume you’re referring to that rather ridiculous so called survey which has UAE wit the allegedly highest status and the U.K. ahead of such giants as Canada, Australia, USA and Japan. Oh and...
Forum: Spain
Jan 28th 2024, 7:23 pm
Replies: 37
Views: 4,466
Posted By rspltd

Re: Spain tops list of cheapest countries to live

One of the problems in this posting is that the ‘researchers’ ( more like Google searchers) have little first hand knowledge of the things they report about. In a similar way a lot of people who...
Forum: Spain
Dec 25th 2023, 9:23 pm
Replies: 145
Views: 15,523
Posted By rspltd

Re: Can Spain convince Brussels

What? Are you saying that people lobby for things in which they don’t have an interest? This is Spain after all!
Forum: Spain
Dec 21st 2023, 8:01 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 2,887
Posted By rspltd

Re: Regarding UK pensioners falling into the UK tax trap

I think that’s what I said. Not sure what the problem is or where the trap is. Tax is a progressive system. If you get more you pay more - but you are still getting more!,
Forum: Spain
Dec 20th 2023, 6:46 pm
Replies: 24
Views: 2,887
Posted By rspltd

Re: Regarding UK pensioners falling into the UK tax trap

Unfortunately doesn’t work when you are in the next tax band but then you get relief on charitable donations.
Forum: Spain
Dec 19th 2023, 8:02 pm
Replies: 2,235
Views: 354,802
Posted By rspltd

Re: Gibraltar 2

In an attempt to maintain some degree of consistency , the EU gets itself into knots trying. Just one look at the existing land borders with the EU shows how complex and varied they are. ...
Forum: Spain
Oct 28th 2023, 8:11 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 7,925
Posted By rspltd

Re: Economic Migrants

“For years we have always heard that that the population in Spain is declining, but these figures were only based on current births, deaths and migration.
Might be different in the very rural...
Forum: Spain
Oct 26th 2023, 7:32 pm
Replies: 78
Views: 7,925
Posted By rspltd

Re: Economic Migrants

Had it been realised that the basis of the ‘facts’ were from the Daily Mail, I suspect this debate would have been seventy truncated.
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