We do know the area and we actually want to be remote we will have a car and both drive. We aren't incapacitated in any way just suffering from old age really. It's only that we don't want to be heaving heavy boxes and furniture around at our age.
Thanks for your advice and concern though.

Just wanted to say: I love remoteness. Love the countryside. Didn't want to be near anything very much. Love driving. Six years down the line I'm frustrated to the nth degree about having to drive no less than 15 minutes to a shop and no less than 35/40 minutes to a decent shop and so on. I appreciate you've expressed yourselves very clearly but would simply caution a second or third thought about what you might be letting yourselves in for. Washer goes on tap. Car has to come out (ok you might have a copious quantity of spares but sod's law comes up all too often...!) You realise you're out of x y or z ingredient and the local Coviran doesn't sell it... guess what. Two hour round trip.
I know I'm kind of exaggerating the priority of these kind of things, but please take it from me it can get wearing........particularly if you (for remoteness) choose a property literally off the beaten track, with dirt rather than asphalt and 4x4 required rather than cheap and cheerful economy car.
Just saying, as they say

My OH thought that I was looking too far ahead when I refused to live too far from anything, especially facilities like hospitals. To his way of thinking this would not be relevant until we were many, many years older. As he became ill when he was 64 (big shock to us both as he had always been very healthy) and has spent so much time in the hospital he now realises that I was right to insist that neither of us would have to drive too far if one of us was in hospital.

Rosemary

I take both your points but the property is on a concreted track and only a couple of minutes to the road. We know there will be some frustrations with remote living and will need to to prepare for emergencies. Our only problem would be if neither of us were able to drive. Anyway as for 2hour round trips, what else do have to fill our days?

I would not say it is remote, villages like this are very much self sufficient with there own supermarkets, bakeries, butchers and greengrocers, chemists as well as hotels, bars, schools and surgery not forgetting the village pool. Ours has its own football pitch and football team. They are also in the process of building a large hospital for the area.

http://www.inmalagatoday.com/content...ed-60-0?page=2

Have you been here in the rain when hillsides slip, roads get blocked for days sometimes and thats even in places near where I live, in the sticks is worse.

I admit to not having been there when the hillsides slip but I have seen the resulting road damage. I also have friends who have been trapped by floods and other quirks of Andalucian weather.

Well we will have to be organised shoppers and I already bake my own bread if needed. Will grow my own veggies and live on soup and bread until life returns to normal. Note to self buy gin by the case and tonics by the pallet.
You will not dampen my spirit.
I notice that lots on this forum must have survived some of the adversity mentioned and even appear to have lived to tell the tale.

Sounds like you have survival instincts.

I know nothing about the area that you are planning to live so would you tell me what it is like. Things like size of nearest large town, is it out in the campo totally or is it a small village etc.

Rosemary

The property is in the campo and 7 mins by car to either Alozaina or Tolox. The nearest town is Coin (15mins) and Malaga airport is about 50 mins away.
There are other properties along the track from the A 366 so although remove not isolated. However, importantly for us, we can't see them so it feels as if we have all the privacy we need while some of the security of neighbours if we need them. I know sounds almost too good to be true so we will probably end up hating the neighbours ( or them us ) LOL

15 mins from Coin is hardly isolated. I'm sure you'll be fine and be able to get most things you need from either Tolox or Coin

That was our thinking

We wasn't isolated. about 5 mins drive to A-7 coastal road. Popped out for bread and was stuck for 2 hours in an accident

If you live in the campo you need 2 cars (and 2 drivers). We moved to an isolated place once, close to Ronda. OH had accident with chainsaw, terrible journey to clinic. We had already decided to move and when we did we chose a place close to hospital, a few minutes away from the main CDS one.

Ouch!
Wouldn't dream of letting my OH near a chainsaw. He needs a disney plaster and a lie down for a papercut!
No doubt a year or so from now I'll be relaying my horror stories to others wanting to move to the sun.