Looking for Costa Blanca positive comments
Dec 6th 2009, 4:40 pm
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Looking for Costa Blanca positive comments
What percentage of posters live in the Vega Baja area of Alicante and why would they reccommend the area
Dec 7th 2009, 3:33 pm
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Re: Looking for Costa Blanca positive comments
I do and I like the area. 
What attracted me to the region may not suit everyone. It is quite a large diverse province, life in Torrevieja is completely different to Albatera. I would suggest you need to be a little more specific on where and what you are looking for?
http://www.property-net-alicante.com...vega_baja.html
What attracted me to the region may not suit everyone. It is quite a large diverse province, life in Torrevieja is completely different to Albatera. I would suggest you need to be a little more specific on where and what you are looking for?
http://www.property-net-alicante.com...vega_baja.html
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Dec 7th 2009, 3:39 pm
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Re: Looking for Costa Blanca positive comments
Only most people tell me to head north is better. I have been to Torre dont like it at all but I did like the inland villages
Dec 7th 2009, 3:56 pm
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) but we went back a few years ago and I thought it was absolutely awful! Crowded beaches, restaurants etc, traffic jams, problems parking and unrelenting building going on. I fail to see the attraction of the place, but obviously it appeals to many thousands of Brits.
Dec 7th 2009, 5:06 pm
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Can't comment on the South as I've only been there once to Playa Orihuela and Campoamor. Spend a lot of time in the North which I love.
Dec 7th 2009, 6:41 pm
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I have lived both in south and north Costa Blanca. Lived for a year in Quesada (but that area was not for me) and I was glad to move back north to the office here and absolutely love it here in Albir. I personally found a different type of person lived on the south Costa Blanca (she now hides behind brick wall)
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Dec 7th 2009, 6:45 pm
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I live inland , near Alcoy and the area is ideal for what I wanted. Peaceful, within easy drive to an airport, friendly people and a not a little part of Britian for miles and miles.
Dec 7th 2009, 9:08 pm
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Must confess its all a mystery to me.
Having been at my present location, a little inland,S.W.of Valencia City, for five and a half years I should have a bit idea by now where I live.
However every time I pick up a map or look at a web site I seem to be on the move......Some place me in the Costa Azahar,some in Costa Valencia and some say Costa Blanca.
Anyway I dont lose any sleep over whichever it may be.
The only thing I do know for sure is that I've loved the area from the first moment I drove into it.
The countryside is lovely,the locals are the friendliest people I have come across in Spain,and although there is a fair sprinkling of expats around, they tend to be well integrated with the locals and furthermore no concentrated or other ex-pat communes to be seen.
I've stayed and lived short spells in various parts of the main Costa Blanca regions North and South but wouldn't wish to give anyone a swap, even for a million dollar mansion, as against my slightly rough and ready Valencian holiday home......
Having been at my present location, a little inland,S.W.of Valencia City, for five and a half years I should have a bit idea by now where I live.
However every time I pick up a map or look at a web site I seem to be on the move......Some place me in the Costa Azahar,some in Costa Valencia and some say Costa Blanca.
Anyway I dont lose any sleep over whichever it may be.
The only thing I do know for sure is that I've loved the area from the first moment I drove into it.
The countryside is lovely,the locals are the friendliest people I have come across in Spain,and although there is a fair sprinkling of expats around, they tend to be well integrated with the locals and furthermore no concentrated or other ex-pat communes to be seen.
I've stayed and lived short spells in various parts of the main Costa Blanca regions North and South but wouldn't wish to give anyone a swap, even for a million dollar mansion, as against my slightly rough and ready Valencian holiday home......
Dec 7th 2009, 9:51 pm
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Dec 7th 2009, 9:53 pm
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Dec 7th 2009, 10:04 pm
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Well when we were looking at property, it was always described as the Costa Del Azahar around here in Oliva & Gandia. But I'm never sure because no one locally seems to describe it as that. So I always say I'm in the borders of CB & CDA
Dec 8th 2009, 3:55 am
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It’s not a question of where we want to live, it’s a question of where we can afford to live, otherwise we’d all be in Puerto Banus or Sotogrande.
Secondly, do we want a Spanish way of life, or just the weather and cheapness? Do we want to be farmers with a remote finca, or pensioners with beaches and fish and chips in the sun? Or somewhere in between.
Where I live on the outskirts of Torrevieja (the flak jacket is on), I can walk to three banks, a modern health centre, a 24-hour garage, many bars and restaurants of all sorts, four supermarkets, and we even have our own police station.
Still walking, I’ve got two large salt lakes and a giant nature reserve.
Within a five-minute drive, I have four blue flag beaches and two airports are half-an-hour away.
There are expat clubs of every description, from the British Legion to sewing circles. The city of Torrevieja itself, contrary to what people think, is Spanish and very few expats actually live there, but tens of thousands live in the area to the south of Alicante.
If you want a sedate country life among Spanish people, you wouldn’t be in this area. But if you like mixing with fellow expats and use all the facilities they have built for themselves, or have to earn a living, then this is for you.
If I win the lottery, I’ll probably move.
Secondly, do we want a Spanish way of life, or just the weather and cheapness? Do we want to be farmers with a remote finca, or pensioners with beaches and fish and chips in the sun? Or somewhere in between.
Where I live on the outskirts of Torrevieja (the flak jacket is on), I can walk to three banks, a modern health centre, a 24-hour garage, many bars and restaurants of all sorts, four supermarkets, and we even have our own police station.
Still walking, I’ve got two large salt lakes and a giant nature reserve.
Within a five-minute drive, I have four blue flag beaches and two airports are half-an-hour away.
There are expat clubs of every description, from the British Legion to sewing circles. The city of Torrevieja itself, contrary to what people think, is Spanish and very few expats actually live there, but tens of thousands live in the area to the south of Alicante.
If you want a sedate country life among Spanish people, you wouldn’t be in this area. But if you like mixing with fellow expats and use all the facilities they have built for themselves, or have to earn a living, then this is for you.
If I win the lottery, I’ll probably move.
Dec 8th 2009, 6:54 am
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It’s not a question of where we want to live, it’s a question of where we can afford to live, otherwise we’d all be in Puerto Banus or Sotogrande.
Secondly, do we want a Spanish way of life, or just the weather and cheapness? Do we want to be farmers with a remote finca, or pensioners with beaches and fish and chips in the sun? Or somewhere in between.
Where I live on the outskirts of Torrevieja (the flak jacket is on), I can walk to three banks, a modern health centre, a 24-hour garage, many bars and restaurants of all sorts, four supermarkets, and we even have our own police station.
Still walking, I’ve got two large salt lakes and a giant nature reserve.
Within a five-minute drive, I have four blue flag beaches and two airports are half-an-hour away.
There are expat clubs of every description, from the British Legion to sewing circles. The city of Torrevieja itself, contrary to what people think, is Spanish and very few expats actually live there, but tens of thousands live in the area to the south of Alicante.
If you want a sedate country life among Spanish people, you wouldn’t be in this area. But if you like mixing with fellow expats and use all the facilities they have built for themselves, or have to earn a living, then this is for you.
If I win the lottery, I’ll probably move.
Secondly, do we want a Spanish way of life, or just the weather and cheapness? Do we want to be farmers with a remote finca, or pensioners with beaches and fish and chips in the sun? Or somewhere in between.
Where I live on the outskirts of Torrevieja (the flak jacket is on), I can walk to three banks, a modern health centre, a 24-hour garage, many bars and restaurants of all sorts, four supermarkets, and we even have our own police station.
Still walking, I’ve got two large salt lakes and a giant nature reserve.
Within a five-minute drive, I have four blue flag beaches and two airports are half-an-hour away.
There are expat clubs of every description, from the British Legion to sewing circles. The city of Torrevieja itself, contrary to what people think, is Spanish and very few expats actually live there, but tens of thousands live in the area to the south of Alicante.
If you want a sedate country life among Spanish people, you wouldn’t be in this area. But if you like mixing with fellow expats and use all the facilities they have built for themselves, or have to earn a living, then this is for you.
If I win the lottery, I’ll probably move.
Dec 8th 2009, 7:39 am
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Dec 8th 2009, 8:10 am
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Re: Looking for Costa Blanca positive comments
I avoid that area like the plague when I'm heading south, quite happy just to see it from the autovía. It's full of posers and pseuds, I would hate to be living amongst that back biting lot! Fancy Peter Strinfgfellow, or his ilk for a neighbour? But having said all that, I'd live there in preference to Torrevieja!