Very valid question because the areas are very different. I hope that a few members will be along soon to give you an insight into the two places.

What sort of things are you interested in experiencing because that might help with peoples responses.

Rosemary

Well done you for asking such a question. I wish I had asked such questions on here before my first visits to Spain. I see you've received some replies already. The differences between one part of the country and another had not even entered my head. I just had visions of sun, sea and sand. All my visions seem to be stereotypical!

I would hope that if someone asked what these places were like that people would provide information about each of the places in order to provide an insight for them.

Please do not be so insensitive to a new poster.

Rosemary

I know that you are in the same province as I am but have you visited other areas too. How did you go about selecting the area?

I have visited the Costa Brava and liked it a lot but that was as a holiday maker and I believe that when in that mode you view a place with a different frame of mind. Liked it a lot, loads of places to visit, beautiful scenery and the people were really friendly.

Also been to Granada, Benalmadena, Huesca, Baza and a few other places in the Costa del Sol once again this was as holidays not with a view to living there but I did enjoy being there, spectacular scenery.

Rosemary

Morning Domino. I realise your post style and tone can be on the blunt side shall we say, but I'm with Rosemary and Jonboy . Ukwlf is a new poster and your tone there is rather dismissive even if you didn't mean it that way. I'm sure you didn't.

I totally agree with this. That's what makes ukwlf question so good. We mostly don't really know about the differences in areas in places before we arrive to a new country. It's great the new poster has thought to ask.

I remember our first trip to Spain we went to an urbanisation near Torrevieja. Lots of british people, pubs and cafes. All the bungalows had bars on the windows and we seemed to need about six different keys to get in and out of the place! The locals told us not to leave our washing out as it would be stolen and we would have to buy it back at the car bootsale We thought that the place was sort of ok, so we visited a few properties and had a bit of a look around. There were some interesting characters and we returned back to the uk.

On the next trip we looked north of Alicante and found that it was somewhat greener, less obviously north european, somewhat more prosperous and appeared to have more infrastructure. Only about 80 miles apart but very different to each other. I had imagined that Torrevieja and the rest of spain were all the same. I've travelled about a bit since and Spain has so much more to offer than I imagined back then. So the advice is to travel around more and get a greater feel for the place.

I think Domino just got his km2 and sq miles mixed up UK is 243,610 km2 which is
94,060 sq mi ...according to the modern wonder that is Wiki anyway.

*that was in response to Keithtoon's query, which seems to have dissapeared*