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It may look cold, but isn't it beautiful! (several days recently have been more or less sunny)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...s-8288934.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/a...IN+HYDE+PA.jpg

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The Telegraph did an autumn gallery the other day - stunning.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...s_2386972k.jpg

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Bootiful. :)

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What wonderful pictures to look at when it is a wet and dull day in my area.

Rosemary

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Lovely photos! All I can see here is fog and rain! We are engulfed in cloud.

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Lovely photos, but as for the title of the thread....I am home, it's here in Spain! :D

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well said Meg :goodpost:

we have made this our home and on every visit back to the UK will be Visitors, both fiscally and legally, despite the passport details.
still not sure about being buried here, but even if I go first I probably won't have much say in it.

When on an overseas posting then I would be going home, but this is where I now call Home.

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I would estimate that at least 90% of the folk I knew who considered Spain to be there permanant home, way back when I bought my first place here, ended up back in the UK within seven or eight years.

Nothing at all to do with the recession, it was long before that.

In fact now I'm hard pressed to think of any of them who I know for sure are still here.


Whilst I have no doubt they were quite sincere at the time, I only begin to take such declarations of intent seriously now after I know they have been living here permanently for at least ten years.

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I like LOOKING at the nice snowy images but glad I am not there and having to deal with getting to work etc.

Spain is my home till I or life decides othewise.

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This is my home today..36*

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Obviously got your thermometer in the wrong position.
The true temperature should be taken in the shade and it's nothing like 36c

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Well I know many people who have been here longer than that, and only a very small number have gone back.

Personally we have nothing to "go back" for!
Our two daughters have been here and married to Spaniards for over twenty years, we have grandchildren who were born here and now a great grandchild as well, we also have friends here of several decades standing.
Other members of our families are scattered all over the world, only a few cousins that we hardly know still reside in the UK.

So not only are we not going back... we are not even going back in a box when the time comes!

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Wish I had a hundred euros for every time I heard that said.

To be fair with your family married into a Spanish family then it's a totally different situation to those I mentioned and it's great that you feel completely and permanently settled here.

Most of those I refer to were back in my Tenerife days, having already been there a while and loving it in every respect, especially it's wonderful climate and prices that were unbelievably cheap at that time.

However unlike yourself, they mostly had close family back in the UK.
The one thing that struck me most, when they out of the blue announced they were going back, was that they expressed a strong desire or urgent need to return to their roots, as quite a few of them were getting on a bit.

I must confess, I think I would feel much the same myself, if I wasn't in the fortunate position to be able to continue splitting my time between the two as well as elsewhere.

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Home is where the heart is - you have to live where you are happiest!

Unfortunately, to quote another cliché, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. If you are unhappy in one place, you aren't necessarily going to leave your unhappiness behind if you move to another place.

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Very True.
Lord knows I met plenty of them.
"England is f**ked this is the place to be".

They were mostly back home,(England), in much less than a couple of years.

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My friends ask me why I live in this town and I have great difficulty explaining to them that when I drove into the town it felt like I was coming home, somehow it felt right but I can not tell them why this occurred. It still feels right to me even though I am now here on my own. It was miserable January weather in 2004 when we came house hunting, I was slightly reluctant to move so no rose tinted glasses for me and yet it was me that ended up choosing here. Moved here permanently in 2006 and started to make our life here and loved it. Throughout the last three terrible years have remained content here. I would rather be miserable without my husband here than miserable without him and my wonderful friends by moving back to the UK.

Rosemary

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That is so true. I have moved so many times in my life (for my Dad's job when I was a child and then later on for my own career), that when my husband retired in 1997 and we moved to Scotland, I said "thats it, I'm putting down roots and never moving again". 10 years after that we came to Spain. As 10 years is the longest I've ever lived anywhere in my life, 'home' can only ever be where I happen to be at the time.
Everywhere I've lived has had good and bad points. I have no idea if or when I'll move again, never mind to where. I'm just happy taking each day as it comes.

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Rosemary I so know what you mean when a place touches your very soul!

Way back in 1983 we drove up the Guadalhorce valley and stopped to look at the castle in Alora.....
I absolutely fell in love with this area in that moment, we continued our journey up to the three lakes, which I thought were the most beautiful I'd ever seen.
From that first sighting we knew that this was where we wanted to be and that it would just be a matter of time until we made this place our forever home, I can honestly say that we have never once regretted the move.

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What I find very strange is the fact that when we came to view the house we only met the owner and her daughter and were not overly struck by them so at that point it was just this feeling of being home. Now that it is my home and I have got to know so many of the people I realise that it is their input that makes me want to stay.

For example I was told by the notary that I needed new padron certificates for Graham and myself. Since he died I have tended to take a friend to offices for moral support in case I ended up too emotional to deal with things but today I decided not to be an idiot and went alone. The man who dealt with me checked with me exactly what I needed, sorted it all out on the computer, gave me the certificates and then relaxed from the formal bit and checked that I was alright, then three other members of staff came around the screen and gave me hugs and kisses on the cheek and talked to me about how things were etc. They had all waited to let me deal with the business part first and it is this sort of thing that makes me so glad that I chose this place.

Rosemary