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Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by elspeth sinclair
(Post 8839761)
I live in a very big house in a pretty village five minutes from Xativa. My rates and rubbish, six collections a week, are roughly 100 euros a year. Village houses have the cheapest overheads and are pleasant to live in and you have Spanish neighbours.
I wonder if your neighbours say oh dear we have British neighbours! |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by johnnyone
(Post 8850224)
I wonder if your neighbours say oh dear we have British neighbours!
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Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by johnnyone
(Post 8850224)
I wonder if your neighbours say oh dear we have British neighbours!
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Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
We've just had Basques moving into our little street, which is mostly Spanish and Scandinavian, and us. They very much keep themselves to themselves, especially with the other Spanish people.
Our dogs went potty a few nights ago and I went out to investigate. It seemed like there was a war going on in the new neighbour's house, at three in the morning. It finished with what I'm sure were gunshots. Three of the people living there go to work early in the morning, and I was pleased to see them all drive out of their driveway when I walked the dogs. I waved to one of them, an attractive young lady and she waved back. You never know with neighbours, do you? |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by johnnyone
(Post 8850224)
I wonder if your neighbours say oh dear we have British neighbours!
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Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by JLFS
(Post 8853584)
Maybe, but the real panic sets in when the gypsies move in as neighbours........:rofl:
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Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by elspeth sinclair
(Post 8855836)
The Spanish in a tiny village like ours would die rather than sell to gypsies and probably kill anyone who did. I'm more worried about the English.
It seems as though the Spanish in you village have confirmed this to be true. Give me an English person over a gypsy any day. |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by JLFS
(Post 8855874)
Are you not the same E Sincalir who slagged me off for saying that the Spanish do not have a good opinion of gypsies????
It seems as though the Spanish in you village have confirmed this to be true. Give me an English person over a gypsy any day. Wrong as usual, I was the person who said that the only racism I had encountered in Spain was against their own gypsies although I had no problems with them. That opened a Pandora's box which revealed how racist the Brits were, with you and Mr Lightening joining in. |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by elspeth sinclair
(Post 8855916)
Wrong as usual, I was the person who said that the only racism I had encountered in Spain was against their own gypsies although I had no problems with them. That opened a Pandora's box which revealed how racist the Brits were, with you and Mr Lightening joining in.
But you have a very short memory.. |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by JLFS
(Post 8855946)
Whatever, I cant be bothered answering you...............
But you have a very short memory.. It's all in print darling but you've just got your threads in a twist. |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by elspeth sinclair
(Post 8855957)
It's all in print darling but you've just got your threads in a twist.
That is how obsessed you were at the time, to prove me wrong. |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by JLFS
(Post 8855970)
Yes it is all there in print, you did a survey amonst Spanish bathers at the swimming pool and asked them what they thought of the gypsies, because you did not believe it,dont you remember?
That is how obsessed you were at the time, to prove me wrong. Sorry but you haven't gone far enough back . Glad to see you doing a bit of research. Just try not to bore me to death. |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by elspeth sinclair
(Post 8855996)
Sorry but you haven't gone far enough back . Glad to see you doing a bit of research. Just try not to bore me to death.
And your little tales of, selling eggs to your neighbours and speaking in you "impeccable Spanish" arent boring? |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by JLFS
(Post 8856004)
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And your little tales of, selling eggs to your neighbours and speaking in you "impeccable Spanish" arent boring? Really? You've forgotten your own language? :blink: |
Re: Living in Spain - the good things!
Originally Posted by cricketman
(Post 8856023)
I did find it a bit strange JLFS that you said sometimes you have to resort to speaking English in Spain to be understood.
Really? You've forgotten your own language? :blink: And I am sure if all the fluent admitted it, we would find that some need to revert to English now and again, and have been helped out bySpanish medical, banking staff etc, when their language skills were not up to scratch. My English may be failing me, but as far as I can see, I did not say that I reverted to English because I had forgotten my own language. If I have written it so badly that the meaning is that I apologise. Maybe some other native English speaker could point out to me how I could have worded my post better, so as not to lead to confusion. Always willing to learn Come on Cman point out my mistake............or learn to read ENGLISH |
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