Moving to Spain for 6 months
Jun 15th 2013 | 8:33 am
#31
Im a 77 year old nutcase
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 4,774
From: Playa del ingles...Gran Canaria..
Re: Moving to Spain for 6 months
What i do is lift €500 from the ATM and put it in the bank to pay my phone and internet as i need an account for them..Rent is paid into the landlords account..My Movistar account is only €34 a month so €500 goes a long way..
Last edited by tommy.irene; Jun 15th 2013 at 8:37 am.
Jun 21st 2013 | 8:20 pm
#32
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 5,367
Re: Moving to Spain for 6 months
True, but I don't see anything commendable in being able to buy as many high strength pills as you want, it's literally a recipe for disaster. Spain used to pop antibiotics like smarties, it's well known the body builds up a resistance to them. Now they are supposedly POM, but as we've said that's widely abused. Despite the supposedly healthy life style, fabulous med diet, the Spanish are a load of hypochondriacs, they are the second highest poppers of pills in the world.
http://www.abc.es/sociedad/20130622/...306212011.html
Jun 22nd 2013 | 12:16 am
#33
On the road again.
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 17,507
From: On Top of the World
Re: Moving to Spain for 6 months
Not surprised to read that three out of ten Spanish are overdosing on ibuprofen., seriously increasing their risk of even worse health.
http://www.abc.es/sociedad/20130622/...306212011.html
http://www.abc.es/sociedad/20130622/...306212011.html
I get the impression from Spanish media reports that the increased domestic pressures as a result of the crisis are becoming all to much to bear for many, with numerous cases of attempted suicide, some by overdose as well as increasing problems with domestic violence.
It's quite understandable I suppose, in household with big families living permanently on top of each other on a shoestring budget, with no jobs to go to and little or no money for other activities outside their own four walls.
There have been a couple of comments from those in high places saying the worst is now over.
Lets hope for just once they are right, because even in a best case scenario most experts seem to think it could take another five years to get back on an even keel.
Apr 19th 2014 | 3:38 am
#34
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From: Mazarron
Re: Moving to Spain for 6 months
Hi I am 30weeks pregnant today and I'm going to spain to visit family and I may stay here to have the baby will I be covered under ehic card?
My partner works in oil and gas so I won't be looking for employment just looking for a long term let in mazarron area I believe the closest hospital is Cartagena?? Has any one gave birth here?
I will be paying for private appointments whilst I am there but just need advice in regards to birth
Thank you xx
My partner works in oil and gas so I won't be looking for employment just looking for a long term let in mazarron area I believe the closest hospital is Cartagena?? Has any one gave birth here?
I will be paying for private appointments whilst I am there but just need advice in regards to birth
Thank you xx
Apr 19th 2014 | 6:05 am
#35
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Posts: 196
Re: Moving to Spain for 6 months
Having had a 1 year old ill in Spain and getting liquid paracetamol from the pharmacy was difficult, one pharmacy had a policy of no drugs for children without a prescription, following a trip to the Drs we returned with prescription but the liquid was still a much higher concentration than we were used to in the UK and worked out at 0.2 mls..... very difficult to get down an unwell child! This was a few years ago so I do not know whether they do have a lower dose now, but I have been unable to get sachets of liquid drugs for children for when we are traveling.
