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Forum: Spain

Mar 29th 2011, 10:34 am

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My thoughts on moving back to the UK

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Posted By HBG

Re: My thoughts on moving back to the UK

It’s often said that the majority of expats are pensioners, but I wonder if it’s true?

I live in an expat area where you would expect to find that, but I’m not so sure. We’ve got expat bar...

Forum: Spain

Mar 29th 2011, 9:10 am

Replies: 111

My thoughts on moving back to the UK

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Posted By HBG

Re: My thoughts on moving back to the UK

I’m one of those keeping my powder dry, just in case, even after many, mostly happy years in Spain.

My trouble is that the place we have left, and left many years ago in the UK, has changed...

Forum: Spain

Mar 28th 2011, 2:11 pm

Replies: 111

My thoughts on moving back to the UK

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Posted By HBG

Re: My thoughts on moving back to the UK

I know two Swedish families living nearby. For at least 20 years now, they’ve spent eight months of every year in Spain and four months back ‘home’ in Sweden.

(I don’t know Sweden’s status with...

Forum: Spain

Mar 28th 2011, 8:42 am

Replies: 111

My thoughts on moving back to the UK

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Posted By HBG

Re: My thoughts on moving back to the UK

The post war period produced several large scale movements of people, like the Jamaicans to England and the Turks to Germany. Contrary to what the native population expected – a temporary influx of...

Forum: Spain

Mar 27th 2011, 8:43 pm

Replies: 111

My thoughts on moving back to the UK

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Posted By HBG

Re: My thoughts on moving back to the UK

I don’t think I misunderstood, but it doesn’t matter. I moved to provide a better life for all of us, and returned to my roots when I had dug up all those foreign streets lined with gold.

To my...

Forum: Spain

Mar 27th 2011, 7:49 pm

Replies: 111

My thoughts on moving back to the UK

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Posted By HBG

Re: My thoughts on moving back to the UK

Spanish people, like Scottish and Irish people, and many others in the world, have had to leave their home countries to seek work abroad when their own countries failed them. It’s perfectly natural...

Forum: Spain

Mar 27th 2011, 4:57 pm

Replies: 111

My thoughts on moving back to the UK

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Posted By HBG

Re: My thoughts on moving back to the UK

An interesting tale from a returnee to the UK after many years in Spain. I tend to read those stories with respect, because it could happen to me (us). Some of the cocky new arrivals, spouting...

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