Yes, that was my point!

Perhaps I should have phrased my comments differently - the Spain where many British expatriates choose to live resembles Southend-on-Sea.
Vast ghettoes of Daily Mail-reading Costa Cockneys.

Certainly if the OP only wants to spend a few months of the year living in Spain that is likely to be where he will buy.The opportunities for holiday rentals up some dusty goat track are fairly limited.

Fact is property in Florida is much easier to rent out - you've got the whole of North America as well as Europe as prospective clients whereas Spain is really limited to Brits and Irish in the school summer holidays.

Didn't mean to offend the expats on here who live in Spain full-time. Away from the coastal madness it is, of course, a wonderful country.

except there are many available here inland, complete with the dusty goats.
and those from the Nordic countries enjoy a little bit of dust and sun.

One might make similar disparaging comments about where most of the Brits choose to live in Florida.

And the majority of those people are likely to want to be within walking distance of a beach.

Which is why so many apartments were built and remain unsold on the coast.

Which is why it would be madness to even contemplate entering the Spanish property market for a very long time.

Don't get me wrong. I like Spain. Just not the parts of it that most people in the UK and Ireland like.And I'm trying to answer the OP from an economic point of view seeing as he is thinking of buying and renting out a property in Spain.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a British community anywhere in Florida, even around Orlando.
Certainly none where they still watch Coronation Street in an English-themed bar with English beer.
Here's my local when I'm home.

http://wharfrestaurant.org/

I appreciate all the points above, we would prefer to buy our own little place in the sun, so we can feel at home, as one of the downside to rentals is having to take everything with you when you travel.

We did consider renting out a Florida property if we bought one, but we don't want the worry and hassle that comes with doing so, and especially at 4000 miles away.

I will not be racing into buying anywhere though and will keep an eye on the ever changing financial and political issues in Spain and elsewhere.

That is the best you can offer? It sounds just like the bars I avoid in Spain.

Each to their own,of course.
But sipping a margarita watching the sun go down over my boat moored outside after a day fishing in the Gulf of Mexico does it for me.

I forgot, Spain doesnt have fish, or water, or boats, or coctails

It's nice that you like living where you do, but a bit silly to diss everywhere else on that basis

Sipping a Mojito by my pool after a hard day in the saddle does it for me.





Never far from a bit of culture on the Costas >

Is that a SKY dish I see ? You wouldn't want to be missing Corrie whilst immersing yourself in the " real " Spain.

Cuthbert.... Just to clarity, and I am not looking for to rent out to anyone wherever we buy, it will only be used by family and friends on the run up to retirement and then as a semi permanent retirement home following that, I love the States as does my wife, but I think only the very rich can afford to jump through all the "investment" visa hoops to find a way in for more than six months, so we will have to make do with long term letting during the winter months.

I am not ashamed to admit I live on the Costas, where it is not hard to find spanish culture. You may be surprised to learn not all Brits drink in the Red Lion. This establishment is more to my taste >


it is owned by a school friend of mine.

Not many bars in Spain with views like St. Petes....none with menus like that either if you took a peep. Gulf of Mexico has some of the best beaches in the world