& the self-employed get NOTHING at all - they even lose healthcare 3 months after they stop paying their autónomo......... although that is supposed to have changed recently I think

I know of the Spar , its in a very quiet corner of Almunecar , very small crowded shop and "open all hours" ,sells all your essentials .
You would be buying a very low paid job(if at all) with very long hours in my opinion.

As for the International book shop,who are you going to sell books too? hardly any expats left in that area , there was a large expat book shop in Almunecar 18 months ago, been open for years - now closed.

The sad truth is 99% of business`s for sale in Spain are worthless ,business vendors should be paying the buyer to take on their responsibilty of paying the lease /rent!, then you have fixturs and fittings , most expat bars fixtures would not fetch 100 euros on a car boot sale , finally you are left with stock , most bars wont hold more than 1k`s worth of alchohol , then you will have all the legal fees for transfer of ownership so that leaves bars being worthless, fact.

Only the Sun but useful read for wannabe bar/shop owners. Benidorm is on it's knees.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...its-knees.html

The second comment on there from someone who actually lives in Benidorm totally refutes the article! Who to believe???

I've heard claims for 20 years that Benidorm is on its last legs. It's not the place I choose to head for, but I suspect there's a lot of life left in that particular resort.

And according to ABC today, tourist spending is up, with Brits still spending the most.
http://www.abc.es/20120730/economia/...207300944.html

What does that mean though, could be prices have shot up

Could be, lots of these figures seem to contradict each other! When we were last there, talking to locals, they reckoned the numbers of visitors was about the same but they weren't spending as much.

well as my daughter was conceived there so I suppose it is a good place


but it was 30 years ago and the marriage has been over for 20 so what does that say

thats because they didnt conjugate their verbs enough so didnt know what to say when spending their hard earned cash

Hey 'Domino', I wouldn't worry about such things if I were you, concentrate more on inserting apostrophes when required!

It seems as though that Sun article has upset someone else in Benidorm!

http://www.benidormallyearround.com/....html?spref=tw

Caption: Levante Beach on 4th July 2012 - looks deserted?


Personally I'm more put off a place by crowds like that, but at least it shows the Sun are probably talking out of their derriere...

Nah no chance, this is an internet forum, people arent expected to use perfect grammar, perfect spelling, just be themselves. And if people get upset at my using TLA's then why should I use apostrophe's.

anyway i wuz orf sik wen we did apostrafees

and I had chicken pox wen we wuz conjuthingying verbals, it was the sort of rubbish they did at the posh skool up the rode.

Did you hear it being discussed by Jeremy Vine today? Hilarious, the radio presenter reminded me a little of you, I even said to the other half that if I didn't know best I'd have said it was you! To say he was stuck in a long river in Africa is an understatement.....

As someone who goes there from time to time, I would say the "Brit side" is suffering. I already told you on another thread that there were loads of shops and restaurants closed (20 on the pedestrian walk from the back to the beach). However Id have to say the the Southern areas looked perfectly healthy to me. So theres clearly a North South divide appearing

Thank god. I was worried they might be seeking another place to establish a trashy yob mecca. But if they're gonna stay there, no worries. One is enough.