and there was me thinking I had moved here from one
especially after the last time I lost my temper at Stansted Airport Immigration

Hi

Chiclana has it's own unique set of problems; that is not to say insurmountable, but it will take time - lots of it. Our problem lies in the fact that to urbanise the illegal properties you have to go back to basics.

To build a home, or set of homes along a road, you need an infrastructure. a pipe for incoming water, a pipe to take the effluent away. To put these pipes in in retrospect costs a lot more. Not to mention storm water.

Then you have to be able to have things like foundations inspected, and the quality of the building materials may need to be proved. Once more, much more costly to do once a house has been built. And then you have to change the land from protected to urbanisable.

Yes we have problems; but I rather like it here. The people of Chiclana are salt of the earth and will help you if they can. It may not be a perfect idyllic existence, but I'd rather be here than a lot of other places I have visited in Spain or England.

Davexf