British Expats - Moving to Marbella

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Re: Moving to Marbella - Adivce Needed

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Originally Posted by fionamw (Post 9904992)

She's probably scuttled off into a corner surprised at the response

Let's hope not eh, amongst all the completely irrelevant drivel being posted I offered her the opportunity of a job (you know, those things that there apparently aren't any) :rolleyes:

Re: Moving to Marbella - Adivce Needed

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Originally Posted by avocados (Post 9904999)

Talking out of your bum as usual, does that make you a "bottom feeder" ?!!

Your spanish nationality makes no difference to the validity of your knowledge. It's very clear to even a blind man, the spanish spend endless hours, talking complete carp amongst themselves.

BTW, there's a huge mass of Spanish out there that have no interest in working, because they can make it easier on the black market or selling drugs, etc. Let's face it, my OH as a Funcionario is at the rock face and gets a very good feel for what really is going on and not the rantings of the clueless.

Anyway, I'm not even going to attempt to educate the ignorant amongst us, but the following FACT should be of interest to everyone posting on here.

The Policia Local in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (pop about 500,000) are trying to fill 71 positions. One might think with such high unemployment, that would be an easy task. Sadly not.
They could only pass 30 people, as the rest were too IGNORANT, UNEDUCATED AND STUPID to pass a spelling test.

These are probably the same people with whom our token spanish poster on BE spends his time talking to, lol.

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Originally Posted by ShinyAndy (Post 9905048)

Let's hope not eh, amongst all the completely irrelevant drivel being posted I offered her the opportunity of a job (you know, those things that there apparently aren't any) :rolleyes:

I doubt if the Policia Local in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria are going to be taking on anyone who doesn't speak Spanish. And before you leap on the comment, yes I know she's looking to Marbella and your point was about the Spanish......
ShinyAndy. By irrelevant I presume you were intending to say 'off topic'? And I'm waiting to hear details of jobs in which the applicants are not required to speak a word of Spanish.
I'm sure there are jobs about. How many of them go to people with a limited command of the native language? Anyone any statistics?

Re: Moving to Marbella - Adivce Needed

Surely if people want to debate about the standard of person that decides to move to Spain nowadays they should be doing it in a thread of their own not cluttering up a thread from a new person asking about areas to live near Marbella and if there is any work here. As far as I can see there are now 30+ posts of completely irrelevant content in answer to the OPs request for information.

If you read what I posted (admittedly now lost amongst all the irrelevance), the role we have would not require any Spanish. I am also aware of plenty of other people here in roles where Spanish is not required. Most of those people are involved in properly skilled jobs (IT, Finance, etc) but even know of people working in service that don't require Spanish either.

Re: Moving to Marbella - Adivce Needed

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Originally Posted by ShinyAndy (Post 9905048)

Let's hope not eh, amongst all the completely irrelevant drivel being posted I offered her the opportunity of a job (you know, those things that there apparently aren't any) :rolleyes:

It would be interesting to hear what the conditions of the job would be, as there was a thread about starting a business who was "thinking of employing someone on a commision only basis" the other day.

You know the type who dont have enough faith in their own products/services, that they cant even offer a basic wage, talk about not putting you money where your mouth is.:thumbdown::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Re: Moving to Marbella - Adivce Needed

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Originally Posted by Rosemary (Post 9904966)

This is why my advice to people with young families tend to be on the cautious side. We live in an area that has very few English people (not spoken to a Brit for 18 months) so have to judge things based on the experiences of the Spanish people around us. I know that they are having great difficulty gaining employment so it seems common sense to me that I say this on the forum and not encourage Brits to take the plunge. People with a definite maintainable income and retired people I happily encourage to make the move and gain a good experience.

When a country has low employment it is obvious that people from other countries trying to take what little work is available would cause unrest with the people who are struggling to make ends meet.

Coming to Spain with a family for a guaranteed job is one thing but moving a family and simply "hoping" to gain work is irresponsible. A few years ago it was possibly much easier to take a chance but not in the present economic climate.

Rosemary

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I agree with all of what you say, the idea of relocating is/should be to improve the lives of the family members, which includes opportunites for employment, education, financial stability etc. not going from Guatamala to Guatapeor........

Just wanting to get away from the UK, and knowing that they will not be accepted in OZ USA or Canada, IMO is not a good enough reason to try their luck in Spain.