amideislas

I'd have to agree - the north of Mallorca is hard to beat. beautiful, never far from outstanding beaches, and a very welcoming atmosphere from most of the locals.

Mallorca is a great combination - you can live pretty inexpensively in beautiful surroundings, and be well-away from the tourist mania, yet within minutes, you can be on a fantastic beach, or right in the middle of some of the wildest action - or on the seafront having a fabulous candlelight meal at a quaint restaurant while the sea laps at your feet.

It's a really diverse and lovely place where you can find just about anything...

jackytoo

You didn't add that it's too cold for more than half the year to even put your big toe in the sea Some of the Island is ok. the rest is just like the costa del sol....only more expensive

amideislas

Well, we get a solid 8 months of t-shirt weather - from about Mid-march to end of November. December days can be without jacket, but the nights get pretty chilly. January and February are damn cold. Days are in the mid teens, but it can go below zero in the middle of the night. Several degrees below freezing temps happen about 3-5 nights per year.

And I haven't seen much around here that resembles costa del sol.. and certainly a lot less expensive and less crowded than costa del sol.. please... It's actually damn cheap if you aren't a) on the beach or b) In the center of Palma or a tourist mecca.

hotchick

Maybe as Domino says that is why my family has money they would never dream of getting someone to find such an important purchase. It's not exactly buying a gift from Harvey Nics is it ???

My husband and I are both determined to make this work and are more than prepared to do the leg work ourselves and find the finances ourselves. Maybe pwwm next time you are in London go to Chelsea and you will see it is not as grand as you and someothers seem to believe. Infact like my husbands property it has a lot of students living there.

We are both in our Twenties and have extremely useful qualifications to make this happen. Mine being equine science and my Husband who has now been working for the past 3 years in Finance also has VERY !! useful contacts and he knows how to use them by networking and being sociable . This is perhaps where you went wrong not having the money for personal shoppers, personally we never bother .

cricketman

The only way you could afford a 2 million euro summer house in your 20s is if you have inherited a lot of money, your husband is a footballer or a founder of Facebook

I have a lot of friends who work in the London finance sector who in their 20s were earning maybe 100-200k after bonus, but there is a big step to earning say 500k that you'd need for such a purchase.

Plus they'd never dream of going to an expats forum to get advice, they'd ask around their investor friends.

And they'd never consider living in Alhaurin El Grande with the gypsies and council house set (sorry, but its true)

Me thinks this is a wind-up

Mitzyboy

Well, everyone to their own, eh?

hotchick

Plus they'd never dream of going to an expats forum to get advice, they'd ask around their investor friends.

And they'd never consider living in Alhaurin El Grande with the gypsies and council house set (sorry, but its true)

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I have never considered living in Alhaurin El Grande, I was being polite ( look it up ) and we are asking advice elsewhere. Some people have been extremely helpful on this forum and others well of course there are plenty of fish and chip brigade living on the Costas it would be sad not to let them have the centre of attention they crave.

We fly out on Thursday with friends as we have found a couple of properties we are interested in. One in the Sierras, 15 mins from Marbella. It is a bit too close to the Costas for my liking but we will see. There is another Near Granada which I am far more interested in . Thank you Domino for pointing out Granada is still feasible.

Oh and P.S this is NOT !!!! a summer home it will be our one and only place of residence and business .

jackytoo

Course it's a wind up...fun looking at property though

cricketman

Oh and P.S this is NOT !!!! a summer home it will be our one and only place of residence and business .[/QUOTE]

Dont know how you are going to do business in finance in the campo of Granada when you cant even get a reliable and fast internet connection

Apologies, but it just sounds so implausable. You HAVE to be in the city to work in finance, especially to earn big bucks, and you do something with horses? How do you do that in Chelsea?

Mitzyboy

Dont know how you are going to do business in finance in the campo of Granada when you cant even get a reliable and fast internet connection

Apologies, but it just sounds so implausable. You HAVE to be in the city to work in finance, especially to earn big bucks, and you do something with horses? How do you do that in Chelsea?[/QUOTE]

Please?
Whatever you think, lets just let it ride eh?

hotchick

Please?
Whatever you think, lets just let it ride eh?[/QUOTE]

No you don't if you deal with finances from Argentina , you can be anywhere in the world. As for Polo ponies my Argentinian Father in Law who has breed ponies and exported around the world all his life, has NO !!! problems believe me .

cricketman

No you don't if you deal with finances from Argentina , you can be anywhere in the world. As for Polo ponies my Argentinian Father in Law who has breed ponies and exported around the world all his life, has NO !!! problems believe me .[/QUOTE]

Ah old money then

If big on polo then Sotogrande is the place to be, but what I say about the internet is true in large parts of the Andalucian countryside. It is the main reason why we live on the coast, as we rely on a fast internet connection to do our work each day.

The other option would be to have sattelite internet, which can be 500 euros a month, but it still isnt as reliable as ADSL or cable

Hopefully when 4G comes out then mobile internet will be a viable option and we can go and live up a mountain somewhere

Mitzyboy

Ere, what the hell is going on with the quotes??????
I didnt say that

steviedeluxe

You need JLFS around to sort it out!

lynnxa

no!!!!

it's usually his fault!!!!



where IS he?