This just popped up in my Google news feed and I thought what a lovely article and hope it might motivate/reassure others

https://www.travelandleisure.com/ret...did-it-8695665

Brilliant, talk about a positive attitude!
This paragraph in particular resonated with me -

Yes, I agree.

I heard many Americans have moved/are moving to Spain and I thought it might help them decide as well as other Expats by reading an article from someone who had made the move.

I am a person who had no interest at all in buying a house in Spain and only came to have a look to humour my husband. I was so negative about the whole idea that I agreed on a 4 day viewing trip on the condition that if I did not like anything that he would give up on trying to talk me into following his dream. Strangely, as we drove into the town my attitude began to change, for some reason or other I suddenly felt at home but could not explain why because it is an ordinary working town so nothing to get excited about at all. Bought immediately, moved here full time two years later and never thought about returning to the UK even when my husband died. So following his dream and going with my gut feeling was a positive outcome for me.

Rosemary

Much the same for me, Rosemary. We had holidayed not too far away in Nerja many times and during one stay I saw an article about the town we now live in in one of the free magazines, I'd never heard of it before as it wasn't somewhere tourists tended to go as it's a working town a short distance inland. We got here, walked around for literally 20 minutes and I said to my husband, "I could live here", as you say it was a feeling of being at home. We bought a house a few months later, just used it for holidays for nearly 4 years after that and moved over permanently as soon as we were in a position to. 21 years after that first visit we're still here, just swapped the first house for a flat. Some things have changed for the better, and other changes introduced have not been so successful in our opinion, but we take the rough with the smooth.