Which part of Spain has fewest Brits?
 

My guess is it would be somewhere like La Rioja or Soria. Places in the deep interior with little tradition of tourism. There again, I would have said Galicia a few years ago, but it now seems that (on this board at least) the odd bod has settled there.

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Asturias maybe...I know of about 10 (mainly through hubby's company).

Most have partners who are spanish.

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I think the whole North coast is free of Brits. Galicia became popular as property inland is cheaper there so many when to renovate farmhouses like they did in France.

But from Asturias to the French boarder hardly any Brits and those that are tend to have Spanish partners as you say

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You may be right. i've been several times to Comillas (Cantabria) and never heard anyone speaking English, well with a native accent anyway. I've heard German and French people there, never British. A bit surprising though, as Santander has the port and airport. I'm fairly sure you get more Brits in Bilbao, if only on a "Guggenheim weekend".

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Extremadura (although seen Brit estate agents advertising there). La Mancha? not heard of many there.

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Heh. Back in the 90s I visited Cuenca with a friend, and we lost our way. I stopped a woman in the street and asked her the way "Perdona, ?podrias decirme donde esta la estacion?" ... But before I'd finished the sentence she'd interupted me with "It's okay, speak to me in english - although I live here I come from England.." My friend cracked up...

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Well, they do have fewest of everybody, so I suppose that's right - but probably not what you were intending. ;)
If you mean the smallest proportion of brits (do you wish to exclude all other nationalities? or is it just something about brits) then I'd guess the big cities, as there's not much to attract ex-pats to places like that.

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Not sure about that. Plenty of Brits have asked about buying apartments in Barcelona, although maybe they got scared off by the crazy prices. I remember there was a sizeable number of Brits in Madrid, some were working for IT companies (Sun, IBM), some worked for head offices of international companies, others were teachers of English. Some even set up businesses (generally Irish pubs or other catering outlets though).

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Yes there were quite a few British people living in Barcelona. Although I was surprised to see so many Americans living there. They were everywhere

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Obscure provincial cities maybe - plus Melilla and Ceuta (who'd wanna live there?).

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The majority of Southern Saharians, if only temporary

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Who you calling odd?:huh:

After being sold some crap by some of the rip off agents here, they do they think it is the cheapest way to purchase a property, but they never think about the years and years of living in a mountain of brick rubble.

I vote for Euskadi.

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Not one for straying off topic but.......anyone see the programme on tele5 last night (can´t remember the name of it) where they were calling estate agents and were being offered 40+% discount on houses?
Funny saying about Madrid having English here, I´m sure there are lots here but in the 14 months I´ve been here I´ve only come accross one other English person and that was last week.

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There used to be an ex-pat magazine in Madrid Don't know if it's still around but there were lots of British clubs and societies advertised.

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Thanks I´ll have a look out for that.
I think the part of Spain that has the fewest Brits could be where ever you are if you dont venture out or mix with them (them - not trying to make Brits sound like a species). I´ve only just realised that I never leave the Goya area of Madrid. All I see is wealthy Spanish and generaly elderly ones at that, it´s still fur coat time here and I think they´re all competing again lol.

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I don't know if it's still going, but on Calle Maldonaldo there's a bar/pub called the Celtic Cross, run by a Scotsman and his Spanish wife. You're quite likely to bump into Brits there, especially when a rugby or football game is being televised. It also gets a lot of Americans too, as it's not too far from their embassy

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Has Castile Leon been mentioned?

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Probably fairly close with La Rioja and Soria, but I would go with Teruel, where the locals complain that the rest of Spain has either forgotten all about them, or does not even know they exist.
Even more cut off now that its been bypassed.

I think all the others mentioned have at least a scattering of Brits.

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I reckon Soria trumps Teruel. I've never met anyone (even on these boards) who's claimed to have been there, even for a few hours. Whereas a few of us have visited Teruel (and enjoyed it too).

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:thumbup: I´ll have a look at the weekend, it´s only a 5 minute walk from here. :thumbup:




I hope this one´s not turned into a sushi restaurant as well lol

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There's a bar at the top of Alcala called 'The Sportsman'. Huge gloomy place.

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Don't think it has.

IME of walking, the area around Salamanca/Zamora and heading back East towards Madrid has the fewest Brits, or any other ex-pat population.

The north coast is heavily populated with Brits, French, Swiss, German and Dutch second home owners at least as far west as Santander. It's very wealthy area with house prices that compare to London.

I've been surprised at just how many Brits are in Galicia, but they're not in the cities - only in rural areas. Very rural! The rural areas that the Spanish gave up long ago.

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The same area has strong links with Colombia... if you know what I mean....

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At a wild guess, probably not too many Brits in either Ceuta or Melilla.

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I lived in Zamora for 6 months in the early 90s, I was the only English-speaking person there (and you can imagine that a twenty something English blonde was quite a revelation for the local guys hehehe!) and pretty much the only foreigner, so I basically got to learn Spanish very fluently as there really was no other choice. I went back a couple of years ago and there were a couple of language schools but still not many "forners".

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I'm gonna be lazy and just say that Brits don't live in parts of Spain that is

1) more than an hour's drive from the coasts (except the north, there's hardly any there)
2) outside of the immediate areas of Madrid and Barcelona

Course that's just a generalization

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There was a programme on Spanish TV about a community, mainly from Benelux countries I think, that set up in some remote Galician semi abandoned village and they all seemed blissfully happy. :)

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Not many brits in Leicester :rofl:

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:rofl:Or London:rofl:

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I think I would agree- with the addition of Huesca and or Burgos. And all these locations are stunningly beautiful in their own way and have great people.