Blue seas

Pro and cons of buying house and retiring to either Fuerteventura or Mainland Spain ??

Loafing Along

Don't rush to buy in either, rent first for a short term and then you will have a clearer picture. Personally Fuerteventura too far, mainland Spain loads of wonderful options.

Blue seas

Spain 10 to 12 % property tax
Fuerteventura 6 %
Spain cold in winter
Fuerteventura warm
Spain has lots of crime
Fuerteventura basicly very little

Spain average beachs
Fuerteventura beaches amazing

Bo S

Spain - Cheaper food, beer and properties
Fuerteventura - More expensive
(Home win)
Spain - El Mediterreneo warm
Fuerteventura - warm
(Draw)
Spain - Crime relative to a population of 47 million
Fuerteventura - Crime relative to a population of 105,000
(Draw)
Spain - Wonderful clean beaches
Fuerteventura - Wonderful clean beaches
(Draw)

Score: Spain 1 - Fuerteventura 0

Boseley

Purchase tax in the Canary Islands 7%, diesel 79 cents a litre, internal flights and ferries, throughout Spanish territories, up to 70% discounts for residents of the Canary Islands.

However if you are looking for work go elsewhere, here where I live we have 40% unemployment.

Also if you are a frequent traveller to the U.K. it is a 4 hours flight.

Blue seas

Fuerteventura £1 a pint in places. Beaches just amazing. Christmas day worst temp is 15c Spain can drop to around 5 to 8 c.

Loafing Along

Exactly all these concessions as few Spaniards want to live there.

lutonlad

At one time we were thinking of opting for a holiday home in the Canaries.
We decided on mainland Spain.

My reason was access. If there is an airline crises, I prefer to have the option of road travel. I consider my investment to be less vulnerable on the mainland.

No other reason for me.

Blue seas

Is, there, still a, land grab problem in Spain ? I hear they can take your land, build on it when ever they like in mainland spain ?

Boseley

I used to know a couple together with their cats and dog, who used to drive from Scotland to one of the smaller Canary Islands, they travelled at a slow pace at the beginning of Autumn and returned to Scotland in the Spring. They used to take about 2 weeks each way, this included three ferries and the journey across Iberia, France and England.

Blue seas

A ferry from Spain to canary islands ??? Not a cruise ship?

Fred James

Yes, they go from Cadiz

Ferry a Cádiz - Barcos y Ferries a Cádiz al mejor precio.

Blue seas

215 euros from cadiz to las Palma's with car. So would las, Palma's have ferry to fuerteventura ?

Boseley

Yes of course, one ferry, sails from Huelva, weekly I believe, returns full to the gunnels with tropical fruit, which we export.

Cruise ships, umpteen in the winter months, tourists from the frozen Europe and the Americas, seeking the Canary island sunshine.

Boseley

Several most days I believe, both Fred Olsen and Armas.