I believe we live in the same bit (CDS).

Although I only have experience of living and working in London in the UK. I moved to the CDS after 2 years in Barcelona and couldnt believe how cheap it was in the CDS.

1 euro for a canya, we ate out last night for 7 euros (ok not very well, but still). Rents are half the price that of Barcelona, maybe one third London prices. Garages fees are very reasonable, ditto car insurance.

The only things that are the same between London, Barcelona and CDS are the supermarket prices, clothes shopping and electronics/handware. Even some things are cheaper in the UK e.g. car prices.

Try sending your kid to an international school in London Cos I wouldnt want to be sending mine to the local comps there! You'd be looking at £10k plus per student per year

If you do a search on "ingles" in Infojobs.net you'll find over 7,800 vacancies alone. That's the good news. The bad news is a lot of the jobs are heavily over-subscribed (same is happening in the UK unfortunately). I've found the odd job that only had 4 or 5 applicants, but most have 100+ applicants.

If there are any IT Java folk out there, take a look. It seems Bull are setting on IT people, and not just in Madrid and Barcelona. However, be warned there's a lot of competition

I asked a polite question!

Why would I or many other posters be expected to believe you when all the statistics from the Wall St Journal to Eurostat say different. You will have to believe me that I am not alone in being a disbeliever. I get pm's from others agreeing but they do not like to openly say they are disbelievers.

Didn't this thread start by a link to a report saying that Spain was the second worst place to find a job. Don't you know lots of spanish who can't find work? I do, on the CDS and in Madrid although I cannot speak for the whole of spain, unlike some posters who know absolutely everything about both countries.

You also say Spain is more expensive than the UK, all statistics will contridict you on that one

We all live in our personal universes with our own laws of physics, some more than others ...

I dunno about every listed item like for like.

But friends who are coming too stay three days over xmas asked us to get Need for Speed Shift on the PSP for there son here, as it was £14.99 compared to Euro 39.99 in Carrefour.

Now there is a reason to move to the UK.

I'm afraid I'm getting on a bit Chulo. What is PSP? I'm assuming it's some kind of games console

Well, it sounds better, doesn't it? I can assure you she is many hundreds of miles from London! UK teaching salaries are easy to check online, perhaps he could link us to the Spanish figures, that seems a tad high to me.

Not really, he said 25k, a quick google search will find you the table of salaries for the various CCAA for 2004, when it was around 24k there (Cantabria).

If you're really interested you might even be able to find a more up to date list, but I don't think 1000€ increase is unreasonable in 4 years.

You're the Spanish expert, but I always though it was "caña".
€7 for 2? That must have been some meal! We might not live there, but have experience of Andalucia, and for €7 it must have been complete carp, no matter where you had this culinary extravaganza! No, don't tell me, it was a 3 course meal, wine included.

You're probably right, but listening to my Spanish teacher from Valladolid, she assures me that the wage she earns at our local school is far better than anything she could earn in Spain.

It's common practice to substitute "ny" for "ñ" where your keyboard doesn't support the tilde character. (Yes I know there are ways around this, and it's in the free beer section). I imagine Cricketman was using a non-Spanish keyboard at the time. I myself at times will use Catalunya instead of Cataluña.

Well they said that unemployment is supposed to persist until end of 2010, though some people are saying it's gonna extend into 2012. Though with the printing presses off the hook here, are we EVER gonna pull out of the recession? It seems whatever we do here is just increase inflation even more, and putting the dollar into an uncertain future

In Puerto Rico we use the U.S. keyboards so we don't have the ñ so most of us forgo the accent marks and the upside-down ? and ! and just use ~ in place of ñ like Espa~a. Looks silly but, hey


Yup it's a handheld console from Sony. Playstation Portable is what it stands for.

....I really gotta elarn how to merge quotes...

I only ever use an "English" keyboard, but it takes just 30 seconds to set up a dual keyboard, and the job´s done for good. I´d have thought with him living there, reading, speaking and writing Spanish it would all be sorted.
"Catalunya" is a perfectly acceptable, Generalitat de Catalunya.

Absolutely

and RCD Espanyol, of course.